Serious Eats - seriouseats.com

Not herbal, but I don't know anyone who doesn't like Celestial Seasonings Bengal 5-spice with a bit of milk and honey

I drink quite a bit of tea. I usually opt for tea bags, but I think loose-leaf brewed tea is superior. I love Celestial Honey Vanilla Chai Tea, Morning Thunder Black Tea, the holiday herb blends(sugar cookie!), and Tazo's black teas.
My favorite teas are black and chai. I actually have a lot of loose chinese teas in my house, and a few of those are quite expensive. Tea drinking is really big in China, and they have really great teas that fetch very high prices. I think I will stick with the cheap tea bags for now

I grew up on 2-3 pots of Twinings or Earl Grey a day. I've never developed a taste for flavoured teas. For me, if I could not have tea in the morning...I am not a happy camper...I can not wake up without a pot of tea in my Brown Betty.

I drink it cold. Not iced, but fridge temp.

The Celestial Seasonings plant isn't far from here, and I go to their gift shop now and then and stock up. The regular teas are cheaper than at the grocery, and the end-of-season and dented boxes are dirt cheap. I mean, come on, dented boxes? They're cardboard. I transfer them to a tin anyway, so it's not like I care about the boxes.

AND they have flavors that I never see in the stores. AND you can sample.

I buy other ones, but I'm always trying different ones, so I can't say that I have absolute favorites. In winter, i tend to favor the mint teas. Last summer, I was drinking a lot of Raspberry Zinger for some reason.

I love tea. Twining's Earl Grey is great. But my favorites are from Mighty Leaf, expensive, but worth it. I also like getting Genmai Tea from the Asian markets.

I drink lots of tea, probably more than coffee. I grew up on PG Tips, ceylon, assam and strong Earl Grey. I don't drink flavoured teas. Not that I can't drink a cup on occasion, I just don't enjoy them. I did go through a stage when I tried all kinds of flavours, just to see if I may find something I fancy (that, and my doctor told me to cut the caffeine), but nothing really stood out.

I drink mostly chai (from Talyors of Harrogate), Earl Grey, Yorkshire tea (strong English breakfast), assam, Barry's gold blend, PG Tips... I also love green tea, especially for iced tea.

I like the variety at Republic of Tea (republicoftea.com). You can buy in bags or bulk. You should be able to find many new teas to try and the ginger peach tea jam is one of the best jams I have ever had.

My tea cabinet is something of a household joke. Yes. I have a cabinet devoted to tea. ALL kinds of tea. I am a tea fiend. English breakfast for morning (or really all day), red zinger is my favorite, all the time herbal, I drink it by the gallon. I love mint and Celestial Seasonings Plantation Mint is black tea with mint, I like that with a little bit of milk. Earl Grey is good with a little milk as well. And there is something about jasmine tea that's just so soothing. Those are a few of my favorites.

I'm with Italiancupcake on mixing teas: Celestial Seasonings' Raspberry Zinger mixed with Lemon Zinger is really good, especially with a good dose of honey. The only peppermint tea I like is CS.
I am fond of Twinings' Orange Pekoe with hot milk and sugar.
And for the upper echelon of teas, nothing and I mean nothing, beats Mariage Freres tea, specifically Marco Polo, Eros or Ile des vanilles. It's expensive, but it is heavenly. If you live in NYC, you can find it at Garden of Eden.

Traditional Medicinals Ginger Tea is so good: no sweeteners whatsoever! Yogi Tea Peach Detox is tasty, too: peachy without being sweet, with lots of cinnamon-y flavor. As far as black tea goes, I love Whittard of Chelsea's Russian Caravan tea, because it's very low in tannins and therefore deliciously mellow. Also, Whittard of Chelsea has admirable fair business policies in place.

Yeah, dittoes to the overstuffed tea cabinet. It's like my own personal little pharmacy.

My favorites are Bigelow's Lady Grey, Constant Comment decaf (love it), and most mint teas. I just placed my 1st order with Republic of Tea, for their little Traveler tins that have about 6 bags in each. It's a nice way to sample without wasting $$. Tried their "Get Relaxed" tea - it's got lavender in it - now that was an unusual taste.

Some ot the Stash teas can be ok in a pinch,too.

Also have to recommend agave nectar as an alternative to honey. Makes a really nice difference, plus the outside of the jar stays waaaay cleaner than my sticky honey container ever will.

Mmmm, tea. I drink it all day, every day. I keep 3-5 types at my desk so I can have it at the office, and I came back from London in November with almost enough tea to tip my suitcase over the airplane weight allowance! My favorites are Twining's Lady Grey, Harrod's English Breakfast, and a delightful special ceylon from Tea Palace, somewhere in the Notting Hill neighborhood.

For green teas, I love the teas from Teaism in DC (also available online) - especially Jasmine Downy Pearl and Tie Guanyin (aka Iron Goddess of Mercy, a robust oolong).

Rishi has a wonderful jasmine pearl tea, too, and a lovely white silver needle tea.

For a less expensive fix, I do love Republic of Tea in many flavors. My current fave is their cardamom cinnamon black tea mix (even if they do spell "cardamom" incorrectly - "cardamon").

Welcome-aboard the tea-train Chelley!
I'm particularly partial to Tetley brand green tea. I find it to taste really clean and refreshing, reasonably affordable, and comes in large bulk quantities. I also drink Tetley brand Camomille in the evenings, and I also enjoy Safeway "O" Organics tea line (Early Grey, Peppermint and Black Tea).

You can never run-out of different flavours to experiment with! There are numrous health benefits as well. But don't deprive yourself of the coffee bean (espcially kona)!
P.S. - Never try Lipton Green Tea. It's bitter, expensive and doesn't taste like green tea at all!

My family hails from Nova Scotia (I've lived in the USofA since I was 10). At 4 o'clock every afternoon, come hell or high water, my mother always stopped for tea. There was always had a pot of tea concentrate on the stove so all you had to do was add boiling water. The tea in our family usually came with milk and sugar. Sometimes, my father would just put strawberry preserves in it. Up until recent times (mother died 3 years ago) my mother always considered 4 o'clock tea time, and anyone who happened to visit during that hour would always be treated to tea and delicious home-made cakes. And none of that sissy herbal tea either... always strong black loose tea.

I adore the Yogi brand teas: favorite flavors so far are Calming, Kava Stress Relief, and St. John's Wort.

I drink mostly tisanes, though I do like the Celestial Seasonings Chai. For bagged teas, I like Yogi teas's Ginger and Sweet Thai Coconut and Trader Joe's peppermint. When it comes to loose leaf, I really like adagio tea's foxtrot and quite a few of the herbal blends from teaism.

I recently got a friend some Douglas Fir tip tea from Juniper Ridge, and he says it's really good and unique. They also have like a sage mint one.

My favorite is Rocky Mountain Roastery's Jakarta Clove. It's green tea, but it has a fantastic warming quality to it from the clove. Not too strong, though. I love it even without sweetening it, which, from me, is really saying something.

@michichan, you put milk in tiger tea? I like it steeped well, with honey.

plus peppermint tea, chamomile tea for sleep, and regular breakfast tea. green tea is ok, but i dont make it so often, i dont like the whole not quite boiling rule for the water.

oh i second mariage freres -- i am obsessed with the "pleine lune" flavor. it is NOT cheap but i got it as a gift years ago and HAVE to replace it every time i run out.

I've switched to tea to cure myself of my addiction to coffee. I like chai and jasmine tea, and especially like a brand called Zsenso that I get through my own business. We have iced bottled tea (green, green with lemon, and green with peach) and regular tea bags, both "real" tea and herbal.

Find me on Facebook (Ashley Kuhlman Knowlton) if you want and I can send you samples of the tea bags. =)