Barry’s Gold is very good, but I think Yorkshire Gold edges it.
As a good Irish-American, it kills me to say that.
I’ll send you my box of leftover Yorkshire Gold. To me Barry’s has a liveliness and brightness not found in any other tea.
I voted yes. I do like tea. BUT, I never ever WANT tea.
Okay, I’ll have a cup of Barry’s tomorrow and report back. I’m often proved wrong.
That’s because it is blended by the magical tiny hands of Leprechauns. Shhhh, don’t tell.
I absolutely can’t stand coffee, so hot tea is my choice when I need a warm dose of caffeine. I don’t care for iced tea, however.
When my wife was pregnant with out third child, she suddenly acquired an aversion to coffee and started to drink tea. I joined her out of solidarity and discovered I prefer tea. After the baby was born she reverted to coffee but I continued drinking tea. Now when I wake up in the morning, I make her a mug of coffee and myself a mug of tea. For the past several years I have drunk only decaf.
Oddly when I do drink coffee, I take it black and unsweetened, but for tea I add milk and sweetener.
Don’t care for tea, although I will drink it on occasion. Oddly enough, I used to love tea and gag on coffee.
I like tea, provided that:
(1) It is made with tea, that is the leaves of the tea plant. Not “herbal tea” (tisane), rooibos or any other such nonsense.
(2) It is:
— plain,
— with milk (not cream or half-and-half or “creamer”),
— with sugar (granulated cane sugar, not honey or “sweetener” or whatever else),
— or with milk and sugar.
(3) It is made with hot water poured directly onto the tea leaves (or teabag) straight from the kettle, not hot or warm water poured into a cup and then brought to you separately from the tea leaves.
Southern-style sweet iced tea is an abomination. Iced tea should not be adulterated with sugar, sweetener, or anything else.
Thread relocated from IMHO to Cafe Society.
ETA: Also, I hate tea.
#3 is why I never order hot tea in restaurants, although there are a few that will bring a tiny pot of hot water with just enough water for one cup, for me to pour over my tea bag. This is ok if the water is really hot, but so often it isn’t. Unfortunately, I suspect tea drinkers are not a big enough demographic for most restaurants to give a flying fig about whether they make tea properly or not.
Total tea addict. Hot tea, loose leaf, made in a pot, strong but milky, no sugar.
Iced tea is another beast altogether; it’s not what I mean when I say “tea”, and I never drink it.
Tea is what my mother made me drink when I was sick. Now just the smell of tea makes me sick. Coffee, please, and for a cold drink, water or beer.
Today has been a low tea day for me, I probably had less than 10 mugs.
You and The Rutles. 
Tea is my go-to hot drink. I can’t stand the taste of coffee and hot chocolate has calories (my rule is to never drink calories). I especially like the fact that there are so many flavors and varieties.
I am shocked – SHOCKED – that a tea thread has been open on the SDMB for over seven hours and no one has yet posted the obligatory link to George Orwell’s essay on How To Brew a Motherfucking Proper Cup of Tea.
Douglas Adams also bloviated on “the perfect cup” I really do wonder if someone could, in fact, taste the difference in a blind test. Maybe a very rare handful of “supertasters,” but, for the 99.9999% of us who aren’t, the full rigor of the magic ritual is not mandatory.
Boiling water and a tea-ball infuser: good enough for people who aren’t obsessive about things.
(I’ve also watched obsessives going to absurd lengths for a “perfect” cup of coffee. They go way past the point of diminishing returns.)
(I had my first cup of mocha last weekend. A nice “Grasshopper Mocha” with mint syrup. Extremely yummy! I’m sure there’s some purist out there screaming that the cup wasn’t properly pre-warmed, and that syrup is no substitute for freshly-picked mint leaves from a strain of bush that grows only in the Balearic Islands and has to be picked only on St. George’s Day.)
Constant comment for hot tea.
Just started drinking cold Jasmine tea last year after I developed a taste for it when I was in Vietnam. Good on a hot day.