Tea -

[The Curmudgeon]

My favorites are chamomile, green, and black. Once in a rare while, I'll enjoy Brisk.

 

[longjohn]

Really love my mint tea, though recently I've heard from a few trusted people rooibos is good. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to hear 'em.

I adore mint and rooibos is up in my top 3. Some people say it has a soft flavor but it's not like drinking green. It does have a certain flavor. It's really nice mixed with chamomile or other floral teas. Try it on its own though or add a mint sprig for extra flavor.

 

[hikikomori]

I just drank some japanese boba tea shit after not drinking tea for like, three years and holy shit those japanese don't fuck around it was strong. But at the end i had a whole stack of boba to just like, eat i guess? Was i supposed to eat them throughout? They're pretty much flavorless gummy orbs.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.

 

[The Empirical Bogey]

This with some creamer is heaven in a cup

 

[GhostOfTheCrinoids]

We have some kind of mountain mint that is everywhere if you don't mow that makes pretty tasty tea. Growing a number of fancy herbs to make tea with that my family likes, but I just like Lipton with light sugar and lots of ice and lemon.

Looking forward to putting roselle hibiscus in my Lipton though. Just acquired some potassium heavy fertilizer for all the hibiscus I planted.
Also, is it just me or is Lemon balm really easy to grow?

I've never been into tea but I do like herb gardening.

 

[Exbein]

starting to feel the summer heat, so I am drinking a lot of cold barley and corn tea

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

I love tea. Green, chamomile, white, earl grey, English Breakfast, black you name it.
Lately mom recommended to add to tea cinnamon to "burn the fat lol".
We used to have a wild mint plant growing in our old house's backyard, so we'd use it to make mint tea...

 

[572.4]

Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.

Is there a reason you don't just buy Cha Tra Mue brand Thai tea? Nobody in Thailand makes their own Thai tea mix, they just use Cha Tra Mue. And honestly I can't imagine any of those spices will make black tea taste like Thai tea, but chai just like you said.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Has anyone tried to make Thai tea from scratch? I bought this nice box called authentic thai tea and it tastes nice. The issue is the yellow dye they use in it, I don't like the way it looks. The ingredients are just thai black tea, yellow dye, and vanilla. So I was thinking of just mixing sugar with minced vanilla bean to use as the vanilla flavor. However, online recipes include star anise, cardamom, and cinnamon. Is it worth it or should I just stick with vanilla? Not really looking for a chai tea mix to be honest.

Which tea do you want to make?
I thought for Thai tea, you need to mix Black tea, ice and Condensed Milk.
For Chai, you need the spices and tea

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Is there a reason you don't just buy Cha Tra Mue brand Thai tea? Nobody in Thailand makes their own Thai tea mix, they just use Cha Tra Mue. And honestly I can't imagine any of those spices will make black tea taste like Thai tea, but chai just like you said.

Oh, looks like I'll have to deal with the yellow dyes. I tried just the homemade vanilla sugar and black tea, it tastes similar but not quite so. Now I have to look to how to order this Cha Tra Mue brand online.

Which tea do you want to make?
I thought for Thai tea, you need to mix Black tea, ice and Condensed Milk.
For Chai, you need the spices and tea

Thai tea, but there are recipes for do it yourself which have a bunch of spices mixed in. If what 572.4 says is true, I might as well just stick with buying the premade tea mixes.