What’s The Best Chai?

Chai comes in so many flavors — technically, chai just means “tea,” so it tends to include a combination of any of the following ingredients: cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, fennel, cloves and peppercorns. Most Americans have become accustomed to drinking the coffee-chain breed of chai lattes, which actually taste heavier of sugar and cream than of authentic Indian chai spices — but we’re here to talk about straight-up chai tea bags. And there’s a chai out there for every tea drinker, so we set out to find it. We rounded up nine of the most available brands on the market — with varying price points — and got to brewing. We brewed the teas according to manufacturers’ instructions and tasted with a teaspoon of sugar and a drop or two of milk.

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