Favorite Tea Brands

Some of the brands you have all graciously recommended are not so readily available in the US, so I am curious of your thoughts on some I have seen here available locally and/or online. Any thoughts on the brands listed below (good/bad)? I do prefer a robust cup of tea.

Lyons
Ty-Phoo
Lifeboat
Tetley British Blend
Welsh Brew
Glengettie
Barry's Tea
Nambarrie
Clipper

I'm a recent convert to Barry's Tea (it's an irish breakfast blend rather than English) and more potent and refreshing imo. I do prefer the original blend (green box) rather than gold blend (red box) though, and stay away from Lyons, Typhoo, Tetley they are English stalwarts for a reason.
 
Jing do a good range and the English Breakfast is a good blend. To be honest it is way better than any of the supermarket stocked brands. Off the shelf, I quite liked the Waitrose gold bags, cheap too. You could also try the Algerian Coffee shop in London, their English breakfast is also nice and they will probably ship to you.
 
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Jing do a good range and the English Breakfast is a good blend. To be honest it is way better than any of the supermarket stocked brands. Off the shelf, I quite liked the Waitrose gold bags, cheap too. You could also try the Algerian Coffee shop in London, their English breakfast is also nice and they will probably ship to you.
Forgot about the algerian coffee shop! You should try the tea house at Covent Garden too!
There's the Drury's too (I don't know about the tea but the coffee's rubbish!)
 
I'm a recent convert to Barry's Tea (it's an irish breakfast blend rather than English) and more potent and refreshing imo. I do prefer the original blend (green box) rather than gold blend (red box) though, and stay away from Lyons, Typhoo, Tetley they are English stalwarts for a reason.

What a coincidence! Recently I received the full range of Barrys tea!

I needed to refill my teabags stock and was a bit tired of typical Twinings ones, so this time I decided too try something different... I found some good reviews about Barrys teas, so when I discovered a spanish online shop with decent shipping rates I simply grabbed them... I'll taste this week and later will tell...

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Anyone on this forum who's into proper Chinese traditional tea drinking?
I mean this:
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You'd think it's the sort of thing that I'd be into, but the Gong Fu ceremony is not something I'm bothered about. I do like real tea, though ... and I do have a "tea friend" who is a little polar bear. I see you have Buddha in the back corner.
Doesn't have to be ceremonial every time - Pin Cha all the way ;)
Also, do show us your tea bear!
 
Here he is, pretending to be something to do with shaving ...

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Teas?

Yeah, I like all manner of Chinese and have a good stock of all manner of regional teas. I'm not big on green tea, but white is good for me: Shou Mei and Xue Ya (Snow Buds) being a couple of favourites, yes opposite ends of the scale. I have a good number of oolongs in, a variety of lapsang souchong, Tiger being my favourite type which is really smokey but very light flavoured, almost rose? I have a number of puerh and liubau in and a good number of flavoured Fujian - rose, mainly. Yep! There's a lot of tea in China.

Elsewhere, it's Assam Bukhial. I'm not that fussed with many other Indian teas, but Bukhial estate really is good! Ceylon, generally, I can take it or leave it. Rwandan and Malawian white teas are lovely, their baimudans have really big leaves! Japanese, not too fussed other than some very salty Fukamushi and I do like Hojicha. Oh, of course, Yunnan blacks, too - really malty.

Otherwise, it's a couple of bags of Taylor's Yorkshire Red. Leave the bags in, good blob of cream and keep topping up with hot water.
 
Whites are my favourites. Shou Mei can be a good winter option - it's got that fire going, but Baihao Yinzhen is my top fav. Got a stock of 5yr old matured buds I'm gonna crack open soon. Aside from whites I'm big on oolongs, it's just a separate world of aromas and flavours.
Also got a puck of Tibetan high grade hei cha which is otherworldly! Use it on special occasions only, since there doesn't seem to be another supply available in the near future.
 
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