Poll of the Day > I'm obsessed with tea

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Today's tea: Pint of generic Assam black tea for work. Home, Pint of Masala chai, extra strong, extra sugar. Learning experience. I guess I haven't been making it bold enough because sometimes, the richness of the milk was more prominent than the spice or the tea flavor.

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I just had some boring mint green tea today, and Earl grey of course.

Tonight I'll probably make a pot of "valerian nights" (chamomile with caramel, coconut, valerian root, and a few other things) as my after dinner drink.

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This morning's tea: Pint of black tea from Thailand. I didn't like it very much the first time I tried it. But this time, I tried brewing it with a lower temperature, and it came out really good. It's like a Darjeeling, but has its own distinct floral notes. Very smooth. I gotta try brewing the Nilgiri tea I have this way.

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Got coffee again and not sick anymore so probably no tea for awhile. I had some chocolate chai black tea the other day. It was ok.
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Today's tea: rebrewed the thai tea. Leaf smelled funny, but tasted fine. 1 pint of a Chinese black tea blend.

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Treating myself to some lapsang souchong from Adagio Teas this evening. Love the smokiness of it. Have some late night work to do...

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Today's tea: 1 pint of Rwandan black tea for work, 1 pint of Earl Grey during work.

January totals:
7 Ceylon
5 Yixing (chinese black tea)
6 Rwandan
7 Queen Catherine (chinese black tea blend)
14 Masala Chai
2 Nilgiri
5 Assam
6 Camomile
3 dahongpao (oolong)
7 etc

62 pints, averaging exactly 2 a day. 7.75 gallons of tea.


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I am sad.

Tea is giving me indigestion/heart burn.

I was hoping it was something else, but nope, every time I drink tea lately, I feel bad afterwards.

I never had that problem before. I don't want to give up my tea, it's the only thing I drink besides water now.

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Today's tea: Pint of a Chinese black tea blend for work. Ended up brewing it strong, and it was really good. Full bodied, minimum astringency. Back from work, pint of Masala Chai.

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Today's tea: Pint of Ceylon for work. Brewed it strong. I love black tea.

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Today's tea: Pint of Rwandan black tea for work. Pint of Earl Grey while at work. Pint+ of Masala chai with dinner. I'm out of Masala chai mix.

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Today's tea: Pint of generic Assam. Brewed it a bit long. Very malty. Bitter, but not unpalatable.

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eating4fun posted...

Pint of Earl Grey while at work.

https://i.imgur.com/hPOulNn.gif


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Back from vacation. Drank no tea, but coffee. Drank a pint of a Chinese black tea blend yesterday, and another pint of it for today so far.

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whooooooaaaaaa,

Today's tea: So I fucked up. Hit the snooze button too many times. Was gonna have 1 pint of the Chinese black tea blend. About to depart for work on time, and was like, why do the tea leaves look weird. Why is the brew not dark. Fuck. I didn't actually boil the water. So I had to go to work without tea, which I can't remember when's the last time I've done so. I figured I might at well let it cold brew while I'm gone. I got back from work and an outing, and It's really interesting. Not the slightest bitterness. Tastes almost sweet compared to other unsweetened iced tea I've had. Light/medium bodied, same floral notes, but crisp and refreshing.

Also, it's really caffeinated compared to most iced teas.

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Actually, as much as I love Earl grey, my favorite iced tea is a sun brewed black or Irish breakfast.

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I wish I liked earl grey but it's not black enough for me. English breakfast black works, but I'm cheap now adays and go with Lipton black tea (2 bags). The bags are 2 cents each, so my cup of tea is 5 cents (when you factor in cream/sugar).

If I get english black etc, it's more like 50 cents a cup and I have 2 cups a day....so it would add up, and I like lipton just fine.

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wolfy42 posted...

I wish I liked earl grey but it's not black enough for me. English breakfast black works, but I'm cheap now adays and go with Lipton black tea (2 bags). The bags are 2 cents each, so my cup of tea is 5 cents (when you factor in cream/sugar).

If I get english black etc, it's more like 50 cents a cup and I have 2 cups a day....so it would add up, and I like lipton just fine.

Ewww. Orange Pekoe? Might as well be Rose tea at that point.

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This Tea Tree Tea is burning my mouth... and eyes... and everything

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Today's tea: Pint of Earl Grey while at work. For work, pint of generic Assam, but I tried to use a tiny amount of lemon because all other attempts at using lemon were less than ideal. This was the worst attempt at using lemon. I counted 12 drops of lemon juice. It tasted weakly of lemon, and the tea flavor was still completely washed out. But the worst thing is, it tasted like a mediocre tomato. The slight acidic taste was really off putting. I'ma try something else tomorrow.

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Today's tea: Pint of generic black tea, used half a lemon with it, and sweetened it with honey. It was acceptable, but still not what I like. It was like hot iced tea. My mission to make black tea with lemon is now accomplished.

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Been drinking a bunch of Chinese black tea.

I tend to use the same leaves throughout the day. The first cup is super strong, moreso than most teas. Any cups after that are obviously much more mild.

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Went too long without posting, hard to recall.

Yesterday's tea: 1 pint of black tea, forgot the specifics.

Today's tea: 1 pint Chinese blend for work. 1 pint Ceylon at home.

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Drank a lot of creme caramel rooibos tea today.

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Just remembered, that tea that I couldn't recall. Rwanda black tea, and I brewed using too much tea leaf because it was very one note. I remember this now because today, I brewed the same tea exceptionally well. I think It's because the brewing temperature was lower because I let the kettle sit for 5-10 minutes.

Also made 1 pint of Earl Grey while at work. It's actually pretty good with dairy creamer. Bergamot tastes a lot better with some kinda milk/cream.

Also, 1 pint of a Chinese blend home from work.

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eating4fun posted...

Bergamot tastes a lot better with some kinda milk/cream.

Bloody heathen.

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English toffee pu'erh tea today.

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Today's tea: 1 Pint of Chinese black tea blend for work, 1 pint of Earl Grey + sugar/cream at work.

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Today's tea: 1 Pint of Chinese black tea blend for work. Regretted not making another pint at work when I had the chance.

Oh, and had a pint of rooibos tea last night.

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Another cup of valerian nights this evening.

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Forgot to be posting. Still averaging 1 pint of black tea a day.

Today's tea: 1 pint of Chinese black tea blend for work, 1 pint of earl grey at work, 1 pint of masala chai home from work. Don't know why I'm surprised, but people are going through the earl grey that I stocked in the break room pretty fast. I'm fully out of Masala chai.

I've gone through at least half of my stock of that Ceylon tea and Rwandan tea, but I'm months away from finishing that chinese black tea blend given that I originally got a whole pound of.

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eating4fun posted...

Forgot to be posting. Still averaging 1 pint of black tea a day.

Today's tea: 1 pint of Chinese black tea blend for work, 1 pint of earl grey at work, 1 pint of masala chai home from work. Don't know why I'm surprised, but people are going through the earl grey that I stocked in the break room pretty fast. I'm fully out of Masala chai.

I've gone through at least half of my stock of that Ceylon tea and Rwandan tea, but I'm months away from finishing that chinese black tea blend given that I originally got a whole pound of.

Did you want them to drink it?
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eating4fun posted...

but I'm months away from finishing that chinese black tea blend given that I originally got a whole pound of.

Well to be fair, a pound is a lot of fucking tea. To put it in perspective, when I was a heavy, heavy weed smoker an ounce was enough for like 3 weeks to a month. I would have to start selling most of a pound or cooking with it to stop it from going bad.

Luckily, tea is considerably more shelf-stable.

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Today's tea: 1 pint Chinese blend for work. Home, 1 pint of oolong tea. Tried a sampler from my 3 dozen sampler set. It was Rou gui tea, an oolong from Wuyi which means cinnamon. I expected to not taste cinnamon. I did not taste cinnamon and was still slightly disappointed. Tastes just like any another toasty oolong, but on the slightly milder side. I'm sure if it was real quality rou gui tea, I'd understand the cinnamon likeness.

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Got sick again already. Had some pumpkin spice black tea and whatever this was. https://www.amazon.com/Numi-Organic-Tea-Emperors-16-Count/dp/B002AR3C42

That one had no flavor to it.
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Today's tea: 1 pint of rebrewed oolong. 1 cup earl grey + cream/sugar, 1 pint Puer. So the rebrewed oolong had a bit of the old/stale taste given that it sat around for a night. Not very good, but when the tea cool downed, it was a lot more agreeable. Earl Grey tea bags practically ran out now. After vacation, I'll bring to work my box of yorkshire gold teabags that I practically never touch. I feel like no one's going to stick to it, given that it overbrews really easily and becomes kinda awful.

I have in stock 3 different things of Puer. Busted out the western audience marketed one. It's still ok, and better than the other puer I've tried. It's got some other herbs/garnishes and orange flavoring, but I give the tea a rinse to wash away most of the orange flavoring. I don't know how to put it's taste into words. You could probably fool someone that it's not tea?

So Puer FYI; it's is a fermented tea, well known in China, not so much in the west. Can be described as an acquired taste. There's 2 kinds, unripe, which takes several years of aging for it to be palpable (and thus, is expensive if it's not poor quality), and ripened, utilizing a modernized technique to greatly speed up the aging. Flavor is described as complex/earthy/woody, and can vary wildly based on it's age. Also, known for a fishy taste/smell, which can be overpowering if not repulsive, if it's not aged well enough.

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https://www.harney.com/products/hot-cinnamon-spice-tea?variant=16152853086279

This stuff. It was ok.
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Yesterday's tea: Pint of chinese black tea blend
Today's tea: Ditto

I've had Harney's hot cinnamon spice tea. It is just ok. Powerfully cinnamony, can't taste the actual tea, but that goes for practically any other flavored tea.

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https://www.amazon.com/Yogi-Tea-Vanilla-Energizes-Supports/dp/B004051BO0

I've had this one before today. It's pretty good.

Also had https://www.instacart.com/products/16968451-bigelow-white-chocolate-obsession-tea-bags-1-6-oz which sucks.
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Fuck, doing it again. Shopping for tea online while I still have several months of tea to consume.

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*sips Tea*

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1 Pint of Nilgiri black tea last night. Today, 2 Pints of Chinese black tea blend. Will vacation soon and won't have the stuff.

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Back from vacation/convention. Had 1 big cup of chamomile, 2 big cups of keemun black tea. We'll just call them pints even though they weren't.

Febuary Totals:

1 Ceylon
2 Rwanda
14 Chinese black tea blend
3 Masala
1 Nilgiri
3 Assam
1 Camomile
6 Earl Grey
1 Rooibos
2 Oolong
1 Puer
2 Keemun

37 Pints, 32 were black tea. Averaging 1.3 pints a day. Dunno why I'm surprised I drank so much of the blend. Been going at it because I have so much of it and that it's good.

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This morning I had a large cup of honey black.

My stomach is a bit upset with me so I'm probably gonna switch to chamomile next.

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Trying more stuff from my sampler pack... It wasn't a black tea, I've been deceived. The tea packets are colored red for black tea, but this one was half white, half red, like Poland's flag. Immediately noticed that it wasn't black tea. Brewed it anyways. Had a strange aroma that I found familiar but unidentifiable. I managed to transcribe 2 of the 4 characters on the packaging into google translate (hard as because the characters are cursive. Apparently it's called Snow chrysanthemum, a chrysanthemum with a unique flavor/aroma that grows only wild in an alpine region in Xinjiang province, (desolate area in NW china, culturally more central asian than chinese, where most of the Chinese Uyghurs are). It doesn't smell like the chrysanthemum I know, but it indeed tastes like chrysanthemum, but more heavily bodied. Parsing my memory, the smell reminds me of Chinese herbal medicines.

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You made me what to try that.

https://www.ahmadteausa.com/lemon-lime-twist.html

Drinking this right now. Really good.
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Still today: Resteeped the chrysanthemum for two more pints.

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Today's tea: 1 pint Rwandan black tea, 1 pint with it resteeped+a little more fresh tea leaf added

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My tea collection catalog'd. Looseleaf unless stated otherwise. Everything's a rough estimate:

Coming in the mail: 1 lb of Masala Chai mix, 2 oz of black tea that's one of two commercially available tea grown in the US.

The go-to's:
Chinese black tea blend - 12 oz
Rwandan black tea - 2 oz
Ceylon black tea - 2 oz
Assam black tea - <1 oz
Generic black tea - 1 oz

The occasion:
Chamomile/lavender/cornflower blend - 14 oz
Nilgiri black tea - 3 oz
Harney's Paris flavored black tea - 3 oz
Thai black tea - 2 oz
Rooibos tea bags - <dozen
Rooibos chai tea bags - <dozen
Chinese tea variety pack - ~16 sampler packets of 8 g each
Dahongpao oolong tea - 2 oz
Darjeeling variety pack - 1 oz

The practically never:
Sencha green tea - 4 oz
Tieguanyin green tea - 3 oz
Longjing green tea? - 2 oz
Flavored puer - 2 oz
Yorkshire gold black tea bags - 50-80 bags

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wolfy42 posted...

Tea is giving me indigestion/heart burn.

I was hoping it was something else, but nope, every time I drink tea lately, I feel bad afterwards.

I never had that problem before. I don't want to give up my tea, it's the only thing I drink besides water now.

It's the same for me: only drink tea and water. I used to drink only water until I got into acupuncture. Then I started drinking herbal tea as well as green and white teas. Sorry to hear about tea giving you digestive disorders. It happens to me sometimes. In that case, I drink less for awhile. Black tea tends to hurt my stomach.

Revelation34 posted...

Got sick again already;

Sorry to hear about that. I hope you feel better.

eating4fun posted...

So Puer FYI; it's is a fermented tea, well known in China, not so much in the west. Can be described as an acquired taste. There's 2 kinds, unripe, which takes several years of aging for it to be palpable (and thus, is expensive if it's not poor quality), and ripened, utilizing a modernized technique to greatly speed up the aging. Flavor is described as complex/earthy/woody, and can vary wildly based on it's age. Also, known for a fishy taste/smell, which can be overpowering if not repulsive, if it's not aged well enough.

Thank you for providing the information! I know about Puerh (or Pu-erh) tea because I like it. My mom, sister-in-law, and our relatives drink it, too. It is often used as medicine. I like the Ten Ren Oriental Delight tea (https://www.tenren.com/oriental-delight.html), which is Puerh and chrysanthemum tea.

Dynalo posted...

My stomach is a bit upset with me so I'm probably gonna switch to chamomile next.

Sorry to hear about that. I hope you feel better. I like chamomile tea.

A good place to get tea is DragonMarsh (https://www.dragonmarsh.com/). They have a good variety of tea.


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