What kinds of tea do you drink? What are your favorites? Link us to some favorite tea sites of yours.
I’ll start: I prefer chi tea most of the time. When at my favorite coffee shop I’ll get plain green tea and the 3 hot water refills that come with it. I have been alternating Rooibos and chi lately.
From Teavana I’ve come to love the Samurai Chi Mate. You have to let it steep for 4 minutes to get the full flavor.
I tend to be more of a coffee drinker but tend to drink these more than anything else tea related.
Sweet tea all the way.
I like sweet tea too. Though I’ve been bad in drinking artificial sweeteners in diet Gold Peak Tea.
Never heard of that kind, is it only in your state?
I used to drink green teas but recently I developed a crave for pure Ceylon black tea. I like the strong flavors of Ceylon Tea.
I don’t know. It is made by Coca Cola, so it should be available where those product are found.
i haven’t really touched tea since i got pregnant with my son maximillian. it makes me throw up. i want to like it but i just can’t. every now and again i try it but it always come back to throwing it straigt back up in the end. bleurgh!
Strange, I may have just overlooked it. As of now I just drink whatever seems good. For a bit there was a tea called ‘Uncle Si’s sweet tea’ (duck dynasty) which isn’t that bad.
I’ve heard that happening before with pregnancy. A friend of a girl at my old office could never eat strawberries again after throwing them up through her pregnancy.
I am from Louisiana and I hate Duck Dynasty (for political reasons, so I won’t elaborate, but there was a whole lot I just deleted).
But I don’t fault you for liking there tea, because this is the tea thread and there’s supposed to be only happiness in here.
Peach Snapple…
I used to drink a lot of Oolong tea. Ceylon is supposed to be the finest in the world.
http://www.pureceylontea.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109&Itemid=214&lang=en
I haven’t had Snapple tea in a long time. I just recently got in to buying the Gold Peak tea. I just usually don’t associate it with being bottled. A good bottled tea I liked was Arizona tea. It had ginko biloba in it.
I don’t care for the show, I have a duck dynasty shirt but I don’t really care what it says. I wear a hoodie all day.
Lipton - fresh brewed iced tea
I love tea, especially black tea and green tea - but I am allergic - I had to go to the hospital after consuming some imported green tea - a rash broke out all over the upper part of my body and my blood pressure spiked dangerously high.
Even when I consume Lipton black tea my breathing gets a bit labored - but tea is so much better for you than coffee - too bad i have to stay away from it 
Oh no. I once had what seemed to be a rash, but was a bunch of chigger bites that spread everywhere from the neck down. I had to have 2 steroid shots. Chiggers are arachnids, so they effect the immune system differently.
So you can get into coffee? A good local brand is Community. They have different flavors that are associated with our holidays like Mardi Grass. They also put chiccory in some of their blends. It’s a unique and robust flavor. http://www.communitycoffee.com/
Lipton is a good stand by tea. You know it’s of a reliable quality.
Oh Yes… 
That is a good one… I also like Teavana’s Earl Grey Cream… it has a bit of vanilla in it and it makes it taste a little lighter and sweeter so I don’t have to use much sugar.
For homemade chi
Spice ingredients for one pot of tea:
1/2 of a star anise star
6-10 whole cloves
6-7 whole allspice
1 heaping teaspoon of cinnamon bark (or 2 short sticks)
6-7 whole white peppercorns
1 cardamon pod opened to the seeds
1 ½ tsp grated ginger
Other ingredients:
1 cup water
4-6 cups whole milk
2 heaping tablespoons of a high quality full-bodied broad-leaf black tea (Ceylon, or English Breakfast if a broad-leaf Ceylon is not available) Sugar
METHOD
1 In a 2-qt saucepan, add spices to 1 cup of water. Bring to a boil; remove from heat; let steep for 5-20 minutes, depending on how strong a spice flavor you want.
2 Add 4-6 cups of whole milk to the water and spices. If you don’t have whole milk, you can also use non-fat or low-fat milk, just add some cream to it, a few tablespoons. Bring the milk and spice mixture just to a boil and remove from heat.
3 Add the tea to the milk and let steep for 5 to 10 minutes to taste. (Option at this point - reheat to a simmer and remove from heat.) You can add sugar at this point, or serve without sugar and let people put the amount of sugar in they want. Traditionally, sugar is added before serving.
4 Strain into a pot. Serve. Add sugar to taste.