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.

  • @azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    154 months ago

    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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    44 months ago

    Butterfly brand fujian tea. $5 for a hundred teabags at the Asian supermarket.

  • ProdigalFrog
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    34 months ago

    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.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    4 months ago

    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)

  • @l_b_i
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    4 months ago

    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

    1. Hot or cold
    2. what type(s), herbal, black, mate, loose, bag…
    3. what do you like
    4. what do you not like
    5. flavor or plain
  • 10_0
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    14 months ago

    Wouldn’t low end just be whatevers the cheapest?

    • @PotentiallyApricots@beehaw.orgOP
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      34 months ago

      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.)