How do you take your tea?

For black tea, with milk and sugar.
Green tea with a little honey.

I work with a bunch of Brits that love PG Tips. With tea that strong I need milk and (brown) sugar.

black tea is with milk and honey.
herbal tea is straight up.

PG Tips or any British-style tea (Earl Grey) with milk and sugar.

Right amount of milk and sweet.

Tisanes – straight up
Tea – milk, one sugar

“So, Pete, how many lumps you take?”
“Oh, three or four…”
BAM!BAM!BAM!BAM!

Black tea, honey. Milk only if it’s chai, and then I usually add vanilla as well.

Green tea and tisanes, a bit of sugar. Honey tends to add a flavor of its own that can overpower the tea.

Straight up, preferably herbal or green.

Black (earl grey), green, fruit, herbal, white, oolong, chai… ALL straight.

coz I’m ‘ard

Iced tea, with a slice of lemon. NO sugar. Not one granule!

Hot tea WITH sugar.

My usual is a mix of ceylon tea with a few pellets of gunpowder green tea. —> straight

Sometimes I take a regular Tetley tea bag, open it up, and dump the dust into the cup. Then I boil the water until the kettle starts whistling, then leave it for a few more minutes so that it’s not just boiling hot, but boiling hot. Then in one swift motion I pick up the kettle and pour it into the cup. It gives the tea an almost burnt flavor. —> milk

All other black teas—> straight

I don’t like most herbal teas, but I do drink quite a lot of chamomile. —> straight

Rooibos just tastes like hot water. If I add sugar, it tastes like sugarwater (blah!) and if I add milk, it tastes like hot water with milk in it (not very appealing). So on the rare occasions when I do drink it (to finish up what’s left of it in the cupboard,) I drink it with —> honey

Green teas—> straight

Oolong teas—> straight

“So, Pete, how many lumps you take?”
“None, thanks.”

@petethepothead – I hope you know I meant the Looney Tunes Pete Puma vs. Bugs cartoon! I’d never hit you on the head.

I usually boil Lipton tea bags add sugar and then dilute with cold water until I have a gallon. Serve over ice. This is typical southern style iced sweet tea and it pairs well with fried chicken.

Lemon and two lumps sugar here for hot tea.

For iced tea, I usually have a pitcher of sweet tea (no lemon) in the fridge, all year round. In the summer, I make mint simple syrup from mint in the garden, and use that to sweeten tea.

Black tea—hot, sweet & a little milk
Iced tea—sweet

All tea – Yechhh!

Iced, and preferably the Long Island variety!

@loser…I lurve nothing more than a drunken pug.

Lately it’s been Earl Grey with a bit of milk and smidge of agave nectar. Sometimes it’s plain jasmine.

Depends on how good the tea is; for well steeped teas I take them straight up as nature intended them. However, for more casual brands I tend to add sugar and milk on the light side.

when I drink hot tea (which is basically only when I was dating a girl who really liked tea…) lots and lots of honey and a squeezed lemon wedge.

Red tea, touch of sugar, straight up otherwise.

I take my tea to the harbor

Green tea: hot, plain; iced, with a little honey.