"magnulus" wrote in message
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"Dieter Folz" wrote in message
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With milk of course. If it tastes nice, I do it. So, always with
Assam, sometimes with Keemun ... and with all those grocery store
stuff (PG Tips, which I kinda like from time to time, don't know why),
as well as all barely drinkable teas.


What is Assam and Keemum- I assume you live in Germany?

I live in NY, and can get Assams and Keemuns pretty easily. They aren't
usually found in supermarkets though- your local tea dealer will have them.
You can also track down plenty of teasellers on the internet.

Here in the US tea is often "black pekoe". Some of it is drinkable-
Lipton hot is not bad stuff, but Red Rose is not a good hot tea brand (it
tastes sourish and stale), although it's popular in the South US for iced
tea with sugar and lemon. Twinings and Bigalo English teas are sometimes
available too. I have found Jackson English tea to be good and it is
available at some stores. For black tea I like Earl Grey and Irish
Breakfast, occasionally I like Lapsong Soochong.

And also green tea is becomming more popular. You can buy it in stores,
but the quality is not as great as what one can get from specialty stores
or
online. I usually preffer Longjing or a cheap Ceylon green. Most of my
tea
drinking is green tea.

Whole leaf tea is the best way to make the stuff, but hasn't caught on
in
supermarkets in the US yet. We have more whole bean coffees, but the
same
hasn't happened for tea yet.

"magnulus" wrote in message
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"Dieter Folz" wrote in message
om...
With milk of course. If it tastes nice, I do it. So, always with
Assam, sometimes with Keemun ... and with all those grocery store
stuff (PG Tips, which I kinda like from time to time, don't know why),
as well as all barely drinkable teas.


What is Assam and Keemum- I assume you live in Germany?

I live in NY, and can get Assams and Keemuns pretty easily. They aren't
usually found in supermarkets though- your local tea dealer will have them.
You can also track down plenty of teasellers on the internet.

Here in the US tea is often "black pekoe". Some of it is drinkable-
Lipton hot is not bad stuff, but Red Rose is not a good hot tea brand (it
tastes sourish and stale), although it's popular in the South US for iced
tea with sugar and lemon. Twinings and Bigalo English teas are sometimes
available too. I have found Jackson English tea to be good and it is
available at some stores. For black tea I like Earl Grey and Irish
Breakfast, occasionally I like Lapsong Soochong.

And also green tea is becomming more popular. You can buy it in stores,
but the quality is not as great as what one can get from specialty stores
or
online. I usually preffer Longjing or a cheap Ceylon green. Most of my
tea
drinking is green tea.

Whole leaf tea is the best way to make the stuff, but hasn't caught on
in
supermarkets in the US yet. We have more whole bean coffees, but the
same
hasn't happened for tea yet.

Yeah, I think it's the same like German tea brands. Most more cheap
teas are a blend of Sumatra and African teas, maybe with some Ceylon.
The same with English bands like OG Tips, Tetley and so on. But thode
English ones give a really decent brew, the German teas don't (despite
some *really* good traditional Eastfresean teas like Bünting, Thiele
and Onno Behrends), esp. those in tea bags. Also the Assam, Ceylon or
even Darjeeling teas of German brands, sold in the supermarket, are
mostly not very good and much too expensive. For the same amount of
money, you can gat a real good tea at nearly every local teashop.


I have lived in Germany but now am back in the UK again. The English tea
bags are better than the German ones, if the tea is taken with milk and
when considering that each bag here contains 3g of tea, the German tea
bags contain mainly 1.5g.

JB

Yeah, I think it's the same like German tea brands. Most more cheap
teas are a blend of Sumatra and African teas, maybe with some Ceylon.
The same with English bands like OG Tips, Tetley and so on. But thode
English ones give a really decent brew, the German teas don't (despite
some *really* good traditional Eastfresean teas like Bünting, Thiele
and Onno Behrends), esp. those in tea bags. Also the Assam, Ceylon or
even Darjeeling teas of German brands, sold in the supermarket, are
mostly not very good and much too expensive. For the same amount of
money, you can gat a real good tea at nearly every local teashop.


I have lived in Germany but now am back in the UK again. The English tea
bags are better than the German ones, if the tea is taken with milk and
when considering that each bag here contains 3g of tea, the German tea
bags contain mainly 1.5g.

JB