Try a green tea blended with mint or lemon. Also, don't brew it for too long at first, you'll acquire the taste for a stronger cup as you become accustomed. Iced green tea might be more to your taste - though this is at its best in warm weather!
I hate green tea out of the tea bags, but I've managed to get some loose from a chinese herbalist. It tastes completely different! So my advice get rid of the tea bags and get down to your local chinese herbalist and ask them for Jasmine Tea!
Green tea is typically drunk in mountain countries - Tibet, Nepal and Ladakh in my experience. At heights of 3000 to 6000m, water boils at 80°C or less (there is much less oxygen in the air at these heights and the air pressure is considerably lower). Green tea tastes delicious there, and is not at all bitter. It should not be made with boiling water like the Great British Cuppa, but infused at 80°C like a herbal tea. Just take the kettle off a bit earlier - a few tries and you will find out exactly how much earlier. (Or use a thermometer!)
For some reason the taste of green tea gives me a headache - no matter what I try to mask the flavor with. I've switched to white tea, now. The flavor of the white tea is much more pleasing to me and both contain high levels of antioxidants.
1) rinse teabag under cool running water.
2) rinse the teacup with the boiling water then discard water.
3) put teabag into the cup, pour the water, let teabag stand for approx a minute and remove teabag ~~ it will be lovely~~
enjoy!!
Try using a flavoured green tea so that the taste isn't quite so strong. Put the water into the cup first then dip the teabag into it to get the required colour/strength.
use just under boiling water, steep the first pot then pitch it and steep again. the second go round is sublime and there is no reason to suffer through the first!