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Official Tea Thread

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Redsy wrote:Though, David's Tea isn't as common as Tim Horton's. =3=
My city has one David's Tea and I think 7 Tim Horton's.
I really wish the David's Tea was closer to my location...
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I'll have to try agave sometime maybe.

David's used to have a wintergreen tea, but now I am sad and alone.
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There's some crazy tea place here in Vegas (I live in Las Vegas) that has a bunch of crazy teas for crazy tea people. Loose leaf stuff, of course, because they're not barbarians.
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Bartle wrote:BREAKING NEWS

Adding grated ginger to Korean breakfast tea (dancha) before steeping makes the tea taste like ginger biscuits. This is easily one of the best blends I've come up with. More on this story as it unfolds
Trying this.

Also Teavana has this new white tea called Spice of Life that's full of nuts and orange peel and cinnamon and it tastes really good blended with their chai mate and iced. This i learned yesterday.
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So, I finally took the plunge and moved from bags to loose leaf. Got the teapot, the filter, jam jars to keep the leaves fresh when they're open, all that stuff. Haven't got one of those infusers that Ashan was talking about, but I intend to pick one up if I see one.

Gotta say, there is a noticable difference in tea quality. Not a massive, life-changing difference, but that's probably down to poor tea quality -- I don't know any tea specialist stores, so I just went with off-the-shelf Twinings Assam. It's nice, though, and it means I get to use a teapot, which adds character to my kitchen and makes the brewing process more enjoyable. Fringe benefits. (It helps that if you're not buying either premium or bargain basement teas, bagged is cheaper than loose in supermarkets.)

That said, back on the barbarian front, I was trying out some fruit tea bagged blends (more Twinings stuff -- nobody around here sells anything else). There was this really nice one with orange, mango and cinnamon, as well as one with orange, mandarin and african honeybush. Really I think I'm a sucker for the citrus smell, which I adore. Can't stand camomille, though.
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Green tea with honey is what I'm currently literally drinking. *sip*

I also go through insane amounts of yerba mate from an internet herb store, it's pretty great.

Grew up drinking 4C iced tea. Meh.
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Today instead of reaching for washing tabs to put in the washing machine I reached for the teabags.

Can't help but wonder what it would have been like if I hadn't stopped (other than utterly ruining my white clothes)
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Yesterday my dad was like "I want some tea" completely randomly, which motivated us to go to the store. We got some black and green tea, both English Breakfast blend. And it took me six freaking cups to figure out how to get it to taste like something other than hot water (added milk a sugar, finally).

Then I placed my cup halfway on and halfway off my desk, and it started teetering and I managed to stop it and move it to a proper place before it spilled. Only like ten seconds later did I realize how horrible that could have been.
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I'm not a huge tea fan myself, but one of my siblings is practically a tea fanatic. In fact, for her birthday she got a big box of pokémon-styled teas, with specific 'mons and a flavor that matches the pokémon's design and powers. It's pretty great.
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PichuVSLink wrote:I'm not a huge tea fan myself, but one of my siblings is practically a tea fanatic. In fact, for her birthday she got a big box of pokémon-styled teas, with specific 'mons and a flavor that matches the pokémon's design and powers. It's pretty great.
Oh man, that sounds really awesome! Any idea where the parents or whoever got it from?
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BeatBoxingBoo wrote:
PichuVSLink wrote:I'm not a huge tea fan myself, but one of my siblings is practically a tea fanatic. In fact, for her birthday she got a big box of pokémon-styled teas, with specific 'mons and a flavor that matches the pokémon's design and powers. It's pretty great.
Oh man, that sounds really awesome! Any idea where the parents or whoever got it from?
Apparently it's from a company named Adagio Teas. You can order their stuff online, if you're interested.
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Been experimenting with flavored teas. Vanilla caramel black tea is becoming my second favorite (peach white tea being the first)...
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The tea I picked was actually Mountain Berry flavored black tea, I prefer sweet over bitter
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I think I've been drinking too much tea, I'm starting to feel sick. I've had at least eleven cups in less than two days, half of which have had milk and sugar.
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but it just tastes like hot water otherwise
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Okay so put the tea bag into the hot water.
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yes thank you i did that
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I present incredible tea stuff for the Tea Thread

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A literal tea calendar? Now that's a really neat idea. :D
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I don't make cups of tea, I make pitchers!
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