What are some good, lower end tea brands?
What are some good, lower end tea brands?
Located in the us and seeking recommendations. All the brands I could think of are too expensive these days (i buy a lot of tea), but I can abide the aldi brand no longer.
Edit: I mean teabags for hot teas, things like English breakfast, earl grey, spiced chai, etc. In search of decent quality that isn’t watery or stale tasting, but nothing too special.
You should check out loose leaf teas. I find them to be less expensive and better quality. I like a mail order catalog called Upton tea imports. You can get 100g of earl grey for 7 bucks which is 18 cents a cup. They also have a cool quarterly magazine.
There are lots of other places to get loose leaf teas, like the grocery store in the bulk goods section. You can get little paper filters or get a strainer. I don't like the little clampy ball one, but it's cheap. I prefer the pour over basket.
Damn! When I was younger loose leaf tea was only available at some pretty pricey stores. Glad to find out about this, thanks
It's nice because you're getting whole leaf tea, rather than tea dust in a tea bag. You can also buy as little or as much as you want and not get stuck with something you hate.
I like Bigelow and Stash teas. You can buy Stash in bulk online and get like 100 bags at a time.
I second these 2, these are basically the 2 that I drink all of the time
Niceee.
I buy Yorkshire tea from British Brands. It's $22 for 240 bags:
https://britishbrands.com/products/yorkshire-red-tea?variant=43991857529079
Butterfly brand fujian tea. $5 for a hundred teabags at the Asian supermarket.
I don't have an answer for you, I pay way too much from a local tea shop, but you might get better suggestions with answers to the following
- Hot or cold
- what type(s), herbal, black, mate, loose, bag...
- what do you like
- what do you not like
- flavor or plain
I'll be interested to see the responses here. I once did research into the best teas, but there are so many brands, the info did not stick around in my head.
What kind of tea? Hot tea? Iced tea? Either?
For iced tea, I can only really taste the sweetener so I'll buy the lowest of the lowest-priced whatever. Last time I was at Kroger, I bought the "Psssst" brand which is about as low as you can go. If I'm feeling fancy, I'll spring for Lipton's.
For hot tea, I've been drinking the English Breakfast style of Twinnings. Can't recall the price range, but I don't think it was expensive. With hot tea, the big boxes usually last me a while since I switch often (sometimes green tea, sometimes chamomile, etc)
Hot! I forgot about Twinnings. They are pretty good.
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Good is important too. I said ‘low end’ to differentiate from the $8 box of 15 tea bags that many places sell, but the cheapest discount brand where I typically shop has some quality issues I want to avoid (i.e. staleness, weird un-tea-like flavors, bags that get holes, etc.)