Would you enjoy Earl Grey Tea as a cola?

I only recently tried Earl Grey tea and it struck me how much the citrus and color reminded me of cola.
So I wondered why there isn't a popular Earl Grey Cola, and my guess is people would hate it. But is that true?
I think it might taste nice. Do you think you would enjoy a fizzy Earl Grey?

I do not think I would enjoy an Earl Grey Tea as a cola. Thanks for asking!

are we talking oil of bergamot flavour cola (which would be lemon coke but a bit more perfumey) or actual tea-flavoured cola?

no

i think it's hard to say. i remember the first time i saw hong kong style tea with coffee on a menu i was taken-aback but it's pretty good.

I would but is this gonna be a thing where to get it i gotta order like 500

I'm not crazy about bergamot, so no. (You can get either Earl Grey or Lady Grey as knuckle tattoos, btw.)

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I don't really enjoy Earl Grey as a tea.

i think i would like this, yes

I honestly only realized recently that black tea kind of gives me a stomach ache. Might be the tannins? Same for a few (though fewer) wines.

I remember in the film of Prozac Nation there's a scene where Wurzel screams at some guy for putting milk in her Earl Grey, and I was like... Earl Grey with milk is the standard tea I have drunk all my life, what is this strange country across the ocean?

I should add that I had Earl Grey without any milk and any imaginary cola extrapolation should also exclude any cream unless you were planning to make an ice cream float.

Milk might help with the tannins?

Also yes we should be thinking tea-flavored cola over bergamot accented cola, though honestly I don't think there'd be much difference given all the sugar...

Not as a cola, but as a hot toddy sure

I think OP would be surprised what the flavoring ingredients of Coca Cola might be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Pemberton_recipe

80 oil orange
40 oil cinnamon
120 oil lemon
20 oil coriander
40 oil nutmeg
40 oil neroli

Citrusy, Caffeiney, Brown-y, it seemed fairly compatible which is why I was wondering why it's not a popular cola variety.

I would only enjoy Earl Grey Tea as a cola.

I remember in the film of Prozac Nation there's a scene where Wurzel screams at some guy for putting milk in her Earl Grey, and I was like... Earl Grey with milk is the standard tea I have drunk all my life, what is this strange country across the ocean?

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monstrous behaviour!

although now that i think of it i sometimes get earl grey bubble tea and that has mlik in it

re: bubble tea / milk etc...
what do y'all picture as the platonic ideal of earl grey tea?
closer to medicine or creamsicle?

Medicine creamsicle. Though tbh no idea what a creamsicle is.

Earl grey is delightful in all its forms - with or without various milks, in cakes, as ice cream. No reason why cola should not be added to the list. Will you be concocting this, PN?

earl grey is the bottom of the barrel black tea though

i used to get it at restaurants or coffee shops because for a while that was the only choice (usually with a bit of milk)

there are far better black teas out there

the fancy milk tea shops use assam, for example

or no doubt some amazing taiwanese tea, which is probably a better option

I'm not a big fan of creamsicles but if you're a fan of creamsicles and don't know it, you must try a creamsicle -- it's an orange popsicle with a creamy center.
I thought about making an earl grey kombucha, which is easy enough to do, but making cola seems like you'd need to be an 1800s quack medicine salesman to do right.

Earl Grey kombucha is a mistake, do not do it

The bergamot does not respond well to aging, the results are undrinkable

In general, Earl Grey is one of my favourite everyday black teas, but I don't think I'd enjoy it in any other context (not as an ice cream, not as a kombucha, not as a cola)

Some kind of oolong-y cola would be nice

what about just mixing it in with some water with something like sodastream, where you just pump carbonation into it

there's other ones that allow you to use different syrups, as well

Oof -- tell me more of this Earl Grey bergamot catastrophe!

also lol: https://sodastream.com

buble during these trying times

Williamson Earl Grey is our long term favourite, recommended. I've seen it in places other than Waitrose, but I can't remember.

I did see bottles of fizzy tea in Fortnum&Masons October just gone, so maybe Earl Grey cola is a potential winner. (the bottles were somewhat pricey as you can imagine, £7 to £14 or thereabouts)

computer--earl grey tea cola, hot

I would definitely try an Earl Grey cola.

@ Philip, the results tasted horrendous, coppery, like the way a sweaty hand gripping a penny smells? that was the taste

https://local.theonion.com/fancy-man-enjoys-tea-1819569438

Over the summer I made several batches of black tea syrup to drink as a soda. It was great!

Tastes a lot like Coke

back in the day my granddad used make dandelion tea and dandelion & burdock is a tasty sparkling beverage so I'd try it as a regular Earl Grey drinker. But saying that I don't recall seeing the finest dandelions & burdocks being sourced (guaranteed no dogs have pissed on them) when I worked at the Ben Shaws factory. They do have a natural spring that flows under the factory but the lying fuckers didn't put moon dust in their Space Pop either!

I would drink the shit out of some lapsang souchong cola

(but Earl Grey actually sounds good to me too)

i blame this thread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Esrxl7UUYAA75ab?format=jpg&name=900x900

I have a perfume that smells quite a lot like Earl Grey Tea and I like it a lot.

i have it on good word that hoptea is good actually so i'm going to try to find it and report back

If you like tea as a cola
And getting caught in the rain

I was recently called 'The Best Liquid Ever'

Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

Chalk another one up to 'yes, let's do this thing'

I wonder if any other teas on the market are non-alcoholic, gluten-free AND vegan? Surely can't be many.

I have been getting many HopTea ads lately myself. Demographics, right?

im drinking a can of nitro earl grey tea oat mlik latte

it's quite good

Would I fuck

That sounds fucking disgusting