Herbal tea

[MissMillie]

Poll question: Herbal tea

What's your favorite?

[sui generis]

1. if you can get a real hand-rolled green tea

it's amazing -- I like it so bitter and strong that it's a metaphysical experience, and I think I'm a little bit addicted.

Has anyone here done the Japanese tea ceremony (chano-yu ceremony)?

That's another fave tea.

[demnan]

3. If you live in the D. C. area

try to get to a Teaism. They serve great Sencha.

[demnan]

2. Other

I don't care much for herbal tea. I like the real thing and I like everything from Japanese Sencha to Indian Darjeeling to Tiwain Oolong. There's a world of wonder in fine teas.

[sui generis]

7. right with you

the only real "herbal" I like at all is strong African rouibus (redbush) tea.

I especially love the darjeelings and oolongs - each one has a "mood", and like wine and coffee you can really taste the difference in flavor complexity between off the shelf teas and hand picked teas.

When I was in Pakistan on work a few years ago, there is no coffee anywhere (except instant). The tea however, is boiled until it is nearly tar and opaque, and served with a bit of cream -- it is out of this world, and makes strong coffee look like coors light. That was the start of my tea obsession.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Tilo - Linden Flower Tea - Helps to relax & helps you to sleep.

[On the Road]

5. Mint Tea

Preferably made Moroccan style with a glass of fresh mint leaves and a sugar cube doused with boiling water.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Red Zinger-- iced!

Here in Tejas it gets awful hot in the summer.

This stuff hits the spot when you don't want Coke, water or regular iced tea. Yum!

[ze_dscherman]

8. Ginger tea

Made from fresh ginger.
Or ginger with lemongrass.
Mint, lemon balm, elder or linden flowers are nice as well. When I still drank Green Tea, I loved Chinese Pi Lo Chun.

[truthspeaker]

9. licorice root (aka Throat Coat)

tasty, and soothes the throat.

[supernova]

10. Drinking Lemon tea this am

:9

I have to go caffine free these days. It's one of the ways I keep my weight under control. I like all the different flavors. :9

[LWolf]

11. other:

all of the above and more.

Green tea isn't herbal; it's just processed differently than black tea. Black tea is fermented; oolong is partially fermented, green isn't fermented. I prefer greens and oolongs when it comes to tea.

I can't pick a favorite herbal tea; it all has to do with the mood of the moment! I mix my own. Some favorite ingredients include:

lemon grass, rose petals, hibiscus, catnip and other mints, rose hips, lemon verbena, lemon balm, chammomile, lavender...

yum!

[cmkramer]

12. Licorice tea

The first time I tried it, the box claimed it was ten times sweeter than sugar. I thought, "yeah, okay, let's see". Then I brewed a cup with nothing added and darned if it wasn't like drinking liquid candy. Very very sweet.

I also like ginger tea -- especially with ginger snaps -- and peppermint tea.

When I was a kid, my dad used to make iced tea with rosehip tea he got at a health food store.

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Mint with green tea.

[flamingyouth]

14. Chrysanthemum

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Green tea is not an herbal tea, it's a regular tea

Put me down for lemon tea or mint/licorice tea when it comes to herbal.

Or Red Zinger.

Or TAZO Orange spicy something-or-other. YUM!!