Are you sweet or unsweet?

Depending upon the tea, I like to mix it up. Sometimes I use sugar, splenda, blue agave syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or honey. As for dairy additions, I’ll use light cream or evaporated milk. There are some teas that I prefer completely plain, such as green teas; in other cases such as black teas, I will add a sweetener and/or dairy. It all just depends! :-)

I never add any sweeteners to my teas…. unless it’s chai. I add a little milk to cut some of the harsh spices in chai. Plus, that is how it is traditionally drank, anyway. :-P

Definitely depends on the tea, for me…I almost always sweeten blacks, unless they are amazingly good (like “Dawn”). I only add milk to chai and English Breakfast, and very rarely a flavored black. I don’t think I’ve ever sweetened a white tea, and I rarely sweeten greens.

I personally find I need something with a natural sweetner. All too often, I practically pour a diabetic amount of sugar in tea when its too “plain” for me. For example, common tea (i.e. Lipton tea, generic black tea) has no real dynamic taste to it so I sweeten it with sugar more than I do with things like peach tea where there is even just a slight sweet taste upon drinking unsweetened.

Greens and oolongs I always drink straight. I prefer my chai teas with milk. With some black teas (usually Indian or Sri Lankan teas like assams, ceylons, darjeelings), it can go either way depending on my mood — I used to only drink black tea straight, but then I started having tea time with my British professor so I’ve developed a taste for milk tea. I always drink Chinese black teas straight though. Also, I rarely add sugar to my tea – only with Persian cardamom tea occasionally. Which is why I hide my lighter and candles in my sugar bowl. XP

I don’t like to sweeten my tea at all. I will only sometimes add some sugar/sweetener to black tea.. but for the most part, I try to avoid it.

chai and el-cheapo blacks I sweeten nothing else.

When I order tea, I always take it straight up or straight up on the rocks…which brings a smile from the tea barrista most of the time :) I’m a non-sweetener kind of girl at home, too. I want to taste the tea in my tea, not the sugar.

I grew up drinking my tea with milk and sugar, but since I’ve switched to using unsweetened almond milk in my black teas I don’t feel the need to add any sweetener. I always drink greens and oolongs “neat.”

Depends on the tea and my mood. I like to sweeten strong or bitter black teas (such as PG Tips) and some chais and some rooibos blends. I usually use brown sugar or agave. Sometimes I’ll use honey. Other teas I usually drink plain.