I prefer black tea to green. I love Twinings Darjeeling and Irish Breakfast teas. I don't drink them anymore, though, the tannin and caffeine make me high as a kite.
Coffee is pretty much coffee to me. I used to like something at one job called Something Sumatra -- it sent me through the ceiling way back then, who knows what it would do to me now. But it tasted wonderful. It was the only coffee whose taste I could distinguish from any other kind. Folger's, Maxwell House, etc., I can tell a difference but I don't prefer any one to any other.
Start my day with English breakfast tea with soy milk. I make a skinny cappuccino in our Nespresso machine mid morning or after I come back from the gym. Variety of teas in the evening.
Discoverd this tea recently and really like it:
My sister is arriving next week and I keep a regular coffee machine here just for her visits, and she's going to bring her fave - Dunkin Donuts coffee beans.
Sometimes I make a DIY chai from scratch, - simmer ginger, cardamon, a touch of cinnamon, black pepper and maybe a speck of clove with milk and sweetener, add some black tea and voila! Delicious with a little cake or biscuits.
Sometimes I make a DIY chai from scratch, - simmer ginger, cardamon, a touch of cinnamon, black pepper and maybe a speck of clove with milk and sweetener, add some black tea and voila! Delicious with a little cake or biscuits.
Back when I was buying the roasted beans in bulk for me, my friends & relatives I tried several different, So & Cent American, Hawaiian, So Asian & African. I liked Kenyan & Tanzanian Peaberry. My wife likes the central American blends so we drink those, the African blends were too strong for her. I don't like the taste of tea, but my wife drinks the green varieties.
I like Lipton tea hot or iced. Once in a great while I like Earl Grey. Kind of comforting to drink in the afternoon on a cold nasty day. As for coffee, I drink Mellitta, Classic Light. It says, reduced acidity. Not so sure about that but I do like the flavor considering it also has half the caffeine. I use a French press to make my coffee.
Spent over 40 years on the road, drinking coffee from where ever one may find it, so not really particular the brand. I must add, I have never found a coffee a spot of cognac could not improve. Black with a spot of cognac, that will do it.