Your favourite coffee and tea?

Liz46

We visited a tea plantation in Sri Lanka and were told that the best tea is sold loose and the tea that is put into teabags is inferior.

I’ve always thought this, although my only ‘proof’ is the fine dust left at the bottom of the caddy after the teabags have gone. You don’t get this with loose tea.

Oh yummmm. A coconut or oat milk latte from Costa .
Or fresh mint tea from cafe 51 .
Simply the best

For tea I like Tetley, Thomson’s or PG tips. I buy whichever might be on special offer. I always make in a teapot as I like to have a top up half way through my cuppa.

I enjoy instant coffee at home. I’ve recently discovered Nescafé Azera Americano. A lovely smooth coffee and it’s my new favourite.

Decaf instant all the time at home. Nescafé Azeera Americana at the moment and decaf Tetley tea bags. When I’m out it’s decaf cappuccino but I’ve no real favourite. I don’t like it particularly strong either.
Back in the 70’s when first married and gifted a percolator we tried lots of ground beans from a specialist shop but never found one I liked so said I’d stick to a decent instant. Also used to wonder how long coffee could sit in the pot before it was served. Not the same now thank goodness with the advent of the new machines and baristas.

We visited a tea plantation in Sri Lanka and were told that the best tea is sold loose and the tea that is put into teabags is inferior.

I drink Nespresso coffees, choice of different strengths. Double espresso first thing in the morning is a necessary kick start to the day. ? Occasionally, macchiato or stove top for ground coffee

Earl Grey and Lapsang, fresh spearmint from the garden in summer are the only teas I drink.

Whilst living in France I regularly visited a local tea shop with a wonderful selection of different flavoured teas/tisanes which were drunk on certain occasions or certain times of day.

Water used in different areas, countries, can make quite a difference to the taste of coffees and teas I have noticed.

Pammiel I was just going to jump in and say surely Crema e Gusto is Lavazza. I do like illy coffee but it's so expensive! At the moment I'm using a Colombian coffee fom Aldi which is rather nice.

Only tea for me and the best is Barries, Yorkshire tea if I can’t get Barries.

Actually just checked as I could remember. Just in case anyone was interested - the Crema e Gusto coffee isn’t Illy it’s Lavazza.

I’ve recently gone back to loose leaf tea from tea bags and our current favourite is Sainsbury’s own brand Assam. I recently discovered ‘fill your own’ tea/coffee bags on Amazon. I’ve never really liked instant coffee and have mostly used a cafetière for ground coffee, but these bags are really good - unbleached cotton with a drawstring and they’re compostible. I fill them with our favourite coffees, Hot Lava Java and Illy Crema e Gusto and store in an airtight jar. They take about a rounded dessert spoon full to make a decent sized mug of coffee.

Cafetiere household here, frankly it is only a matter of boiling the kettle the same as you would for an instant, so I really don't know why anyone drinks instant! Taylor's Italian Blend, or Sainsbury's equivalent. I drink tea and coffee black, so teawise I like Earl or Lady Grey with lemon, and when in a Chinese restaurant I always have (multiple) pots of chrysanthemum tea or similar, I just can't get it right at home!

Drink not stink.

I love Yorkshire tea and fresh coffee, illy, Lavassa and Costa. When I am in a coffee shop, I stink latte.

Yorkshire Gold my 'must have' tea. Coffee is whatever instant on offer.I make up for it when visiting family in the U.S .
Spoilt for choice .

Rave coffee beans. I love my coffe machine. It’s my best friend.

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Have been a Yorkshire tea drinker for years but horrified at the thought of how many tea bags we throw away that contain plastic have swapped to a mix of loose tea, PG new biodegradable bags and Clipper for herbal teas ,which I like the Fennel and Chamomile in the something.Hopefully YT will improve their bags soon.
Coffee made on the hob in an Italian espresso pot at breakfast.Lavazza or recently Cafe Direct actually prefer and often on offer.In the afternoon if I need a pick up Kenco Millicano instant with some milk done in the frother.But no caffeinated tea or coffee after 3pm or it definitely affects my sleep.

Any coffee for me, but I'm really fussy about my tea. I like Thompson's tea which I think is the Irish brew that Gagajo referred to. I like to make it properly in a tea pot, so it has a good chance to brew until it's really strong. I've only ever found it in Tesco's though and they haven't always got it. DH hates tea and will only drink latte.

I’m finding that night time pukka very helpful. I dont like the taste either but I add a small spoon of honey

I dislike all hot drinks! I did try the Pukka Night Time tea after reading about it on GN but it was like dried herbs from the kitchen cupboard. The berry version was just about drinkable but only cold.
Give me plain Oxfordshire tap water any day.

Apologies to the Earl Grey lovers, but to me it`s like drinking calamine lotion. And real coffee is far too strong for me.

Douwe Egberts Pure Indulgence for DH. I only ever drink cappuccino when I’m out and about.
M&S Assam tea-before lockdown started, Earl Grey and Booths Builders Tea.

I use a tassimo coffee pod, and purchase whatever pods are on sale. Fresh and hot, much better than instant.

Admittedly I'm not much of a tea drinker, but now and then will have a green tea with ginger or lemon. Black tea seems bitter to me, and needs a bit of honey.

Green tea or herbal, three ginger, peppermint, turmeric, no cow bodily fluids thanks.
Can drink gold blend with Oatley barista frothed up like a cappuccino, but prefer a proper Illy coffee in one of those little Italian stove top coffee makers.,

Husband makes me a pot of Earl Grey every morning. He has brought me tea ever morning we’re together since I was pregnant with our first child (32 today). He orders the loose tea by the kg. It’s trumpeter and it’s lovely.
I’ve taken to making a pot of other tea most afternoons. They are loose teas from whittard, I’ve developed a taste for oolong, the gingersnap chai is lovely despite the name. When I have an empty jar I’ll get some of the whisky tea, it’s delicious.
I’m really not a coffee drinker and the menus in the coffee shops are so complicated I just stay away. Although once a lovely young girl at a railway station stall said to just describe what I fancied and she’d make a recommendation. I was so surprised, these places had always seemed so intimidating, like a secret society, she was so kind and understanding, it was lovely.