PG English Tips - TEA

[chesters1]

Never drink tap water ,its not nice here so we have always filtered it ,we used to reverse osmos it but its so wasteful so we use two 10" carbon filters ,just about drinkable ,the good thing is with tea or juice you can taste it not the water

The worst tap water i ever tasted was at badshotlea a couple of miles away ,it was so bad when fishing instead of using the tap you used pond water and strained the daphnia out with your tash

Edited August 13, 2014 by chesters1

[corydoras]

It depends on the water as not all tap water is the same, especially its hardness. When we visit my son in London I'm happy with PG Tips. Here at home in East Kent I prefer Tetleys. Yorkshire Teas do an inexpensive tea for hard water areas that I also like for a change, but it needs brewing a little longer than Tetleys.

 

However none of these is a high quality tea according to my old boss, who was a tea planter in Ceylon. He reckoned most cheap teas were just sweepings from the floor!

Strange coincidence. When I was in the Merchant Navy I sailed with a Ship's Master who had been a tea planter in Ceylon and he was of the same opinion.

[Vagabond]

none of these is a high quality tea according to my old boss, who was a tea planter in Ceylon. He reckoned most cheap teas were just sweepings from the floor!

As Mandy Rice-Davies is alleged to have said "Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?"

[Sportsman]

Sorry but tea bag tea is to real tea what instant coffee is to real coffee.

There is a faint similarity in taste and they are both a liquid, but there it ends.

Open a tea bag and contains nothing but dust.

[Steve Walker]

Yorkshire tea or Twinings Assam. Like a bit of earl grey too. Brew it strong, tiny nip of milk (yes, in earl grey, I'm common). No sugar.

 

Also like lapsang souchong and Chinese green tea, no milk in those.

 

Also like some of the teas my relatives used to buy in Hong Kong with herbs and berries and big crystals of sugar in them.

 

Recently tried chai, that's nice with lots of milk and sugar. Tried it the Indian way, with evaporated milk. Nice, bit sweet for me, about 300 calories a cup.

[ayjay]

The teapot v teabag controversy was bound to appear in a topic like this, but here's a couple of things to ponder.

 

The majority will say you need boiling water to make a decent cup of tea, and then there is the suggestion that the dust in teabags is of worse quality than loose tea intended for a pot.

 

For almost my entire working life ( 40 years+ in the building trade) I've taken my own makings to work every day, (I soon learnt not to rely on Joe Public for a cup of tea when you need/want one) so, teabags, milk and hot water in a flask (X 2), all kept separate until required, my tea was/is always perfectly acceptable to me.

 

I'll admit it improved with the advent of s/s flasks and even the afternoon one is better now than it was. The water will have gone into the flasks at no later than 7:00 am, it won't be anywhere near boiling temperature even by 10:00 am let alone 3:00pm. Is it perhaps the finer particle size that allows me to make a still acceptable cup of tea without boiling water?

 

I like a good cup of tea and have over the years drunk tea made by many different people, obviously I've got used to the taste of my tea during that time, but I don't ever go anywhere and drink a cup of someone else's tea and think "this is so much better than any tea I make."

[chesters1]

Mr Bush ,look what you have done ,you can talk about pedos or iraq, moslems or jews and its fine but never ever mention tea ,there may be war!

Edited August 14, 2014 by chesters1

[Tony U]

All,

 

I'm a tea drinker - bought a box of PG English Tips tea the other day. I have to say it is pretty good tea. What brand, among the many, do you find to be your favorite?

 

Phone

Phone

Do not use PG tips to make sweet or iced tea it has too much tannin, use the Liptons tea bags specially made for that or the ready made Red Diamond, I really liked that, with a slice of lemon.

 

Tony

[gozzer]

Just had a quick look in the cupboard at my wifes selection.

White tea, Black tea, Green tea, Green tea with lemon, Earl Grey, Lady grey, Chamomile, Fennel, Nettle, Redbush, Peppermint, Twinnings 'Purify' (a nettle tea with extract of cucumber and aloe vera), and an odd one Banana and cinnamon.

I think she must have run out of a couple!

 

John

[Steve Walker]

The best tea, though, is what JV44 brews on the bank with his little stove kit - because it's fresh hot tea while fishing.