I hear Russia has a large tea-drinking culture. As an Englishman and fellow tea drinker, I would like to know, how do you drink your tea? How often do people drink it? Are there many coffee drinkers compared to tea drinkers?

For us in England, we'll have black tea with milk and sugar almost exclusively. Yes there are many other types such as green tea and fruit teas etc available all over here but the standard 'go to' is almost always black tea. We'll drink it first thing in the morning, many times during the day and offer it to tradesmen and workers when they're at your house. Any guest will always be offered tea.

I'm curious what your customs are with tea.

Спасибо большое!

Edit:

Wow. As a first time poster, I'm thrilled that the response has been huge. I will continue to read everyones answers (I'll do it during work time, when I'm less busy lol) and it's great to see the differences and, during this time where conflict seems to be on everyone's mind, the similarities in our cultures! Thanks everyone for sharing!