Sweet Luzianne iced tea, southern all the way.

I like hot tea. Either plain black tea or Lady Grey. With half a teaspoon of sugar. For iced tea, I brew tea in a tall glass pitcher by steeping 4 or 5 tea bags in about 6 cups of hot water. When it cools, I add cold water and refrigerate. I sometimes add a slice of lemon to my glass but no sugar or sweeteners. I like tea now more than I did when I was younger and I seem to dislike soda entirely.

We drink both here. Lipton family size tea bags in a half gallon pitcher steeped in the fridge overnight is our iced tea. I have an electric tea kettle that I use to heat water for my hot tea. Almost always every afternoon that I'm home, I fix a pot of tea around 3:30.

We used to make "sun tea" when I was growing up. You know, put tea bags in water in a glass sun tea pitcher thing and leave it out in the summer sun for a few hours. I dont remember it tasting any different than regular tea that my parents made in the coffee machine. Anyone do that?

I like it both hot and cold but unsweetened iced black tea is my drink of choice. I use Liptons Cold Brew family sized tea bags and keep a gallon or so in the frig year round and drink several large glasses every day.......sometimes the entire gallon!

For hot tea, I go the old fashioned (and British) route and use loose tea in a teapot. And I like hot tea lightly sweetened and with milk.

I don't care for most flavored teas and herb teas not at all. Green tea is OK and I do drink it with any oriental foods but it doesn't have enough "tea" taste for me for iced tea.

The berry-hibiscus mentioned above makes a better iced tea than a hot beverage for me. While I love black teas especially Earl Grey, Lady Grey and a cardamom flavored one because of the fermentation process I can seldom drink more than a cup without my eyes starting to itch. I do keep several canisters that I open and smell.

Spiced Chai with added black pepper. We make a picture of iced tea with Cold Brew and add a whole lime (squeezed).

Oddly enough, I only drink it when I'm at a full-on science meeting. Don't know what that has to do with it. I'm actually a coffee nut. It may be that urn coffee is unpalatable at those meetings, so I opt for the other.

A question for tea drinkers. I watch a certain YT foodie and they have mentioned that in at least the part of China their are from they wash the tea leaves quickly with hot water before brewing. Does anyone on here follow that method? If so does it make a difference in the flavor of the tea.

I have an iced tea maker. I use Lipton Decaffeinated family-sized tea bags, and sweeten with a little bit of Stevia. Because it is decaf, I can (and do) drink it morning, noon, and night. I love the iced tea maker, because I drink more than 2 quarts of tea each day.

I like unsweetened iced tea, and sweetened with sugar, hot tea. I have a "special" little teapot that I make hot tea in, and drink it as sort of a ritual when I am contemplating some kind of issue in my life. A time to sit quietly, think, and reflect.

Caffeinated iced tea doesn't bother me at all. There is generally a glass on my bedside table in case I get thirsty at night :-) Which I usually do!

I'm getting ready to make a cup of hot black tea with honey and lemon juice. It's not something I drink year round, but it does seem to help with hay fever (as well as sore throat and cough). I use to drink red rooibos tea (which is suppose to be a natural antihistamine), but I don't think it works much better than the black and it's an acquired taste that I seem to be losing- not to mention our local store has stopped carrying it.

I also drink ice tea from time to time and am currently using up a jar of unsweetened tea powder, which I mix with a little sugar and add lemon juice. For me, adding the lemon juice to black tea eliminates a certain flavor in the black tea that I find unpleasant.

Not too long ago, I was telling someone about a Chinese restaurant that my family would go to when I was very young (early 70s). I can still remember distinctly the wonderful smell of the tea there and recently went looking to see if I could figure out what kind of tea it was. I bought several different types of tea associated with Chinese restaurants- none of which came close to what I remembered- and then ultimately came to the realization that they served good old Lipton. Probably what the patrons in that time and place could appreciate, as well as being readily available in a remote location.

I love tea, green, Earl Grey, or otherwise. Formosa oolong too.

But although I was born in Kentucky (which is south) not a drop of sweetener, whether sugar or fake, will touch it if you expect me to drink it.

A comment about the Chinese restaurant tea. The last few times I have had tea at a Chinese restaurant it was no longer a black tea. The flavor was so delicate that without the liquid having a little color I might as well have been drinking hot water. In this area they used to serve Red Roses tea of the type you can now only find in Canada.

I have been gifted with some unique specialty teas with directions to steep/rinse. I have noticed that what I throw out has a dusty taste. I like Stash Jasmine Green Tea and have it most mornings. I also love lavender Earl Grey.

Amy, I am glad you are getting away from diet soda. Please try to make it a permanent thing. Those artificial sweeteners are bad for you.

I drink decaf coffee, although I have been doing hot lemon water and then a cold glass of water in the mornings. Then, if I choose, coffee can become almost like a snack later in the day.

I like caffeinated teas. I find the decaf one to be "fishy." I like English Breakfast.

I wish I liked the herbals, but I just don't.

I never make iced tea, but I should! When I order it out, I like to add my own sugar. I will never buy it already sweetened.

Traditional Chinese restaurant tea is typically oolong - neither green nor black but somehere in between :-) But it is a lot more expensive than standard old black tea bags, like Liptons or Tetley or Red Rose and those tend to appeal more to western palettes as well :-) I tend to avoid Chinese restaurants that serve tea in metal pots with tea bags hanging out the side!!

Dynasty makes a product that is called 'Chinese Restaurant Tea' - it is a blend of oolong, green tea and jasmine scented green tea.

I drink lipton decaf iced tea year round with sugar twin . Don't like any hot drinks.

I collect teapots, but have certain ones that I actually use. I prefer using loose tea in a tea ball, and a bit of honey for the sweetener. Family gifts me with different teas, which I love. I think currently I am preferring a black with a touch of pomegranate. A friend drops in and we have her favorite, a green tea from Aldi's. It is really very. good.

Tea bags were invented to make tea fast, and to use up the bits and pieces that break off tea leaves when they are being processed. I've never had tea made from a tea bag that could compare with brewed tea. (Not an iced tea fan; prefer hot.)

DH and I make tea in a pre-warmed teapot, steeping tea leaves in a teaball with just-off-the-boil water (3 - 5 minutes). We like jasmine best. We have a pot almost every afternoon, with cookies and a prerecorded TV program. Nice picker-upper.

I go to a tea shop to buy loose tea, and my favorite is Fancy Keemun. I drink one or two cups of tea every morning, and I never drink coffee, except when I am on vacation or traveling to a place that is famous for coffee, especially places where the coffee is grown. Tea seems to travel better than coffee, but I've never been to a place where tea is grown, and so I can't say from experience.

I used to make sun tea, but I found that I preferred tea that had been brewed in hot water for three minutes. I found sun tea (or cold brewed tea) to have more of a bitter taste. I think it is very important not to overbrew tea, and I generally let it steep for no more than three minutes.

I have some Japanese roasted green tea that I drink from time to time, but I also like the unroasted green tea, although black tea is my favorite.

I am not a coffee drinker so do drink hot teas, many flavored. I also like No Sugar Added Big Train Chai (it is a powder). It is so delicious and yummy. I do not drink it every day because it still has sugar in it but man I absolutely love the stuff!

I drink hot tea every afternoon in the winter and iced tea in the warm months. I grew up drinking tea since I was 4 or younger. My grandmother made what she called "Cambridge tea" which was more milk than tea with a heaping teaspoon of sugar. I still drink it that way, but not with as much milk or sugar. Most of the time I drink Black tea with a teaspoon of honey, sometimes with lemon slice.

I drink all kinds of teas like Green tea, Oolong tea and different variaties of Black tea like English & Irish Breakfast, Darjeeling, Assam, Keemun, Laosang, and Ceylon. I also like lots of flower teas like hibiscus, rosehip and chamomile. And mint tea is great for the digestion. I use to drink a lot of premade Oregon Chai, but not as much anymore.

I love either Harney’s or Smith’s green tea. I just drink it plain when I want something in the afternoon. I drink half-caff coffee we grind and brew fresh in the morning. But sometimes a cup of tea is just what I want in the middle of the afternoon.

When I make a pitcher of tea for guests, it’s Luzianne and I do not add sweetener of any kind. Everyone adds their own sugar or I make a simple syrup and serve that in a small pitcher for people to add. Luzianne has much better flavor than Lipton or Tetley.

I try to avoid caffeine - not good if one has fibrocystic breast disease (lumpy breasts). I adore Celestial Seasonings Lemon Zinger herbal tea. It's good hot or cold. Very refreshing with nothing added.

Hubs and I both like coffee very much, but we also very much like tea. I like both hot tea and iced tea, but Hubs only likes hot tea. Two of our favorite hot teas are Paris and Hot Cinnamon Spice, both from Harney & Sons. If you go to their site, to the page to request a catalog, you can download a PDF of their 2018-2019 catalog - you'll be amazed at all of the different teas they offer!

I was recently introduced to Good Earth Organic sweet and spicy tea. It is so good that even though Im a coffee drinker I usually have at least a cup of this tea during the day. It is hard to find so I have been ordering directly from Good Earth.

satine -gw - I have been drinking Good Earth tea since first trying it at their restaurants in California in the late 1970's. I haven't had some for awhile. I will have to get some. It kind of reminded me of my mom's favorite, Constant Comment.

We're very fond of McNulty's in NYC, which has an amazing selection of teas (and coffees): https://mcnultys.com/

I love hot tea, but don't care for iced (it upsets my stomach for some reason). My go to is good ol' Liptons sweetened with Stevia, but I also like Lyon's, Revolution White Pear and Twinings Peppermint. My all time favorite was Good Earth's Cocoa Tango, but it's been discontinued. It had a hint of chocolate paired with chili pepper and I just loved it. I loved it so much that I'm trying to duplicate it at home. Haven't succeeded yet, but have been close a few times.

Not a tea drinker. Prefer iced water

I've been drinking tea since before I was a kindergarten dropout. I grew up on Lipton's but now I use Red Rose. I never liked the taste of coffee until I was about 50 or so, and still drink it only at work -- one cup in the morning.

I agree with whoever mentioned the fishy smell and taste of some decaf tea - Lipton's is the worst. Red Rose is fine as is Tetley. When I lived in CA Bromley's was my favorite -- it wasn't available here (I don't think it is now either)

I don't make it strong, either. I use 2 or 3 bags and fill my quart thermos pot, then have hot tea all morning. Even in summer I start the day with hot tea.

Most of my life I preferred my tea with lemon and sugar, but the past few years now just drink it plain. I generally don't like any herb or flavored teas -- rarely in winter I will brew a cup of Constant Comment, which will satisfy that urge for weeks if not months.

However I got a turmeric/honey/ginger hot tea once, from a coffee shop called Aroma, that was sooo good! I've tried some similar blends from the grocery/Trader Joe's but didn't really care for them; something is missing.

I always boil my water when making tea -- here the water supply is pretty good, but occasionally (especially if it has been raining a lot) it will have a funky odor or taste which boiling removes.

I drink lots of tea-iced tea or hot, all day long. The iced tea is made in an iced tea maker with a 1/2 gallon pitcher. Hot tea is made with hot water dispensed thru a coffee machine similar to a Keurig. For years I used Red Rose, but stopped when they stopped putting the collectible figurines in the boxes. Since then I’ve tried Lipton, Luzianne, and even Walmart Great Value @nd they are all good! Sometimes I find my hot tea has gotten cold ( with trivia and creamer in it) and its good cold like that.

I like iced tea on a hot summer day. I should limit my caffeine intake after 2 pm else it'll interfere with getting a good night;s sleep.

My all time favourite has always been Red Rose Orange Pekoe, but I'll take Tetley Tea as well. I have a cupboard FULL of herbal teas from Davids Tea. I don't drink it often, but I have about 50+ choices when I do want a cup. I used to drink a couple cups of tea every night after dinner. I need to get back into that habit again.

Another lover of both Good Earth and Constant Comment teas. Luckily I can find both at my grocery store. Not a big herbal fan. We have iced tea made with an ice tea maker a good portion of the year, we usually use Lipton but I think I may want to branch out and try something different soon. Enjoying learning about all the different options here.

Every day I drink several cups of a tea a day someone gave me and that I subsequently found on Amazon for less than WF sells it. It's very light and organic; I hesitate to state the name because I'm thinking the amazon algorithm will shoot the price up if more people look at it. You can email me if you want to know the name of it--it's a very light lemon/Meyer honey tea bag and I find it very soothing.

I like that new Luzianne Sweet tea, its already sweetened in the bag. 0 calories!

I often travel to China for work. I've brought back several different teas. In China tea is revered. Ladies go to school and learn about teas, the history of them, how to process the tea leaves, etc. There are tea houses where tea is served.

I use plain black tea bags for brewing kombucha and buy a box of them from Aldi. The tea on its own is pretty decent--I'm not a tea connoisseur but once in a while like a mid-afternoon hot tea with a splash of almond milk.

I drink herbal teas in the evening, and Trader Joe's has a ginger turmeric that's on my current rotation.

I started drinking tea in my baby bottle. Tea was the beverage of choice in my household growing up and even now. Growing up a pot was always on the boil with hot water ready for the next pot of tea, Red Rose Orange Pekoe then, now I drink unsweetened Red Rose Canadian Breakfast Black Tea with a drop or two of milk just to colour it or I drink it black. Not really a fan of herbal or flavoured teas but lately I have been drinking a mug of Twinnings Lemon Ginger Tea at night before bed, reminds me of a hot Canada Dry Gingerale with lemon. Don't drink any of the powdered iced tea mixes that come in a jar or tin, that tea makes me antsy and bothers my stomach. The only tea I will drink at a restaurant is Tim Horton's Steeped Tea, their coffee is horrible but their steeped tea is good but still don't like drinking tea out of a cardboard container. For me tea tastes best served in a bone china mug or tea cup.

Cherryfizz, I adore your tea set.

Oh, I forgot to say that I never, ever put a tea bag in a mug. I hate that, and have trouble drinking it when someone does that for me. It has to be steeped in a teapot, always.

CherryFizz, I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't stand Timmy's coffee. IF we ever had a coffee on the road, it was always McD's.

Red Rose tea in the US is different than Red Rose tea sold in Canada, the US version being weaker. Also Canadian Red Rose tea has been found to be pesticide free compared to other teas sold here as per a Marketplace investigation. Feathers, thank you. I inherited the tea set from my Aunt, it comes with luncheon plates and a small platter. I think the tea pot was broken a long time ago. haha since I took that picture last year of the tea pots I used I have since broken the lid from my Pyrex tea pot and now use a saucer to keep the heat in and just a few weeks ago broke the fancier glass tea pot which came with a tea holder for loose tea. I was not happy.

I used to drink a lot of Constant Comment in the '70's. It was great. I just got some a few months ago and it doesn't taste nearly as good as the stuff from before. It tastes rather flat, not nearly as spicy orange as in the old days. I am disappointed by it.

The talk of Red Rose reminded me of the '70's as well when I bought it mainly to get the little ceramic animals in each box. :)

I love tea. I mainly drink organic green and white tea but like to try other kinds too. I have several tea pots, the smallest is a two cup but anymore I just put the bag in the cup. For company I would use a tea pot.

Edited to add... I don't like sugar in hot tea but I do like sweetened cold tea.