Do you know what your mom’s favorite tea is and how your mom brews her tea?

Mom drinks oolongs a lot and loves a good Dragonwell. Steeps in a Pyrex measuring cup that she uses to heat water in the microwave and then strains into her cup. She has fancier stuff but that’s what she uses most of the time. :)

My mother is very simple and stubborn when it comes to tea. She will only drink her tea right before bed because the caffeine calms her and makes her sleepy. She drinks out of a small mug and with one black tea bag. She drinks it straight and uses the tea bag for quite some time. She will sit and sip at this brew for a few minutes and then head off to bed.

My mom doesn’t drink tea. She dislikes it. So I adopted my friends mom. She drinks Twinings normally, but I bring different teas over. We visited a recently opened tea shop nearby, and I bought her a rose mint black tea from there for Easter. I always bring my adagio signature blends over for her to sample and left half of my Lupicia samples with her to try. She’s kind of my surrogate tea mom. If I got anybody tea for Mother’s Day, it would be her.

My mum drinks Good Earth brand Sweet & Spicy caffeine free. She heats her water up in a mug in the microwave and leaves the tea bag in the cup as she drinks it. She buys it at Costco in bulk, storing it up like the zombie apocalypse is knocking at her door. Maybe that is where I get my tea hoarding tendencies from.

My mother likes the tea that her son makes for her :)

(She actually likes teas that I don’t ,flavors like cherry or coffee, so I purchase them and then lie about buying it for myself so she doesn’t feel like I’m spending money on her. I might be in a moral dilemma about lying to my mother to please her…)

My mom likes to make sun tea from Twinings or Lipton tea bags. She always has some sitting on the counter in a huge jar.

I don’t ever recall my mother drinking any tea other than from Lipton “Flo-thru™” teabags. Hot or iced, its always Lipton.

Perhaps I will take the extraordinary step of introducing her to the wonders of loose tea, but a creature of habit is hard to change. :)

My mom still likes teabag teas, he likes hers either black or with a small amount of sugar

Earl Grey or English Breakfast, in a 1 qt pyrex. She keeps it simple.

Alas, my mother died many years ago. She and her Russian immigrant father taught me to drink black tea as a little girl: with fresh lemon and sugar! That’s still my preferred way of drinking many black teas.