/tea/ - Tea

>>558

Sort of true. But the liquid looks a bit too thin to be coffee to me, and some teas are very dark. Regardless, it's a nice banner and /tea/ doesn't have a whole lot of options at the moment.

All banners are appreciated.

Bro, don't microwave your water. A few times is fine, but regularly the radiation builds up in your system. Cancer will fuck you up so bad it'll make you deader than this board

>>713

I don't own a microwave because its the biggest ugliest thing in the kitchen.

Dr. Pavel, I'm T. E. A.

>>746

>>milk section

You don't like milk & sugar in your black tea anon ?

>>746

>Matcha

>Good

There's a reason the Chinese stopped making that shit almost a thousand years ago. Much of the rest of your post is still valid.

>>747

>milk & sugar

I cannot even begin to imagine the burning hatred required to do such a thing to tea. If you hate tea so much, then just don't drink it.

>>748

I don't particularly like matcha, but I respect it for what it is. True and honest ceremonial-grade matcha deserves respect. I owe it to the farmer that made it.

>>746

More accurate infographics would be much appreciated

>>749

I love milk & sugar in China black tea. It brings out the cocoa notes :D

>>681

They're damn expensive, though. I've been looking for one for a while. I usually check the electronics/kitchen appliance section when I go to thrift stores, but have yet to find one.

>>702

>>damn expensive

yeah dude. But makes rammen fast too! :)

>>702

I bought my 'zutto' model for about $220

>>648

I think it may be worth it, though. Not too many bags can fill my mug to the tip with full flavor like PG T

>>243

>Stay away from the mixed teas that have bits of chocolate and roses and other shit in them

I'll agree with you on the chocolate bits, but you sound like someone who's never experienced what a touch of rose or lavender can do to a good tea.

Teavana has exactly two demographics they market to though. Hipsters and upper-middleclass women 20-45 years old (mostly for their "weight loss teas"). They give you artificially flavored crap that you can find cheaper AND better elsewhere. And having known someone that used to work for them, I can confirm that their staff are trained primarily in the art of selling disgustingly overpriced accessories and teapots. They sweeten all their samples too. I tried a "green chai" from them and all I could taste was sugar and cinnamon.

They also do shady stuff like demand you buy a minimum number of ounces, even if that amount is higher than however much you bought there of the same tea last time. Teavana's a giant scam.

>>240

I can vouch for the quality of much of TeaSource's selection. Look em up if you get the chance.

>>680

>> Teavana's a giant scam

This.

the last place i bought good tea from has gone down.

website is dead, facebook hasn't been updated in a year.

weird. it was a serious business too.

>>737

So now where you gonna buy your tea?

>>652

>>685

You can get better for the price, I got some carrington peppermint tea from walmart for a dollar (20 teabags), and it was fucking good. Lipton just tastes like metallic water, and costs 4 times more than that mint tea I got.

>>666

>$3 for 1.25ltr

Dayumn, that shit's a dollar in the US. Tea can be cheap by the pound/ounce for the most part, but some teas,like matcha, remain exorbitantly priced.

Dan Cong is alright

>>697

I had a 40 cents off coupon so a box of 20 lipton tea bags cost me like $1.80 beat that.

>>673

Black needle is really good. I have had that before. Tastes very chocolatey with sugar & milk

>>714

I haven't really had matcha before, only this weird combo matcha/sencha stuff at a person's house. You had the sencha in the tea bag and then poured the matcha overtop.

Tasted good, though I think, I was really high every time.

>>716

matcha iri sencha?

gotta mail order that anon !

No way around it :)

>>716

>>720

oh yeah I have seen that before. Its republic of tea. They sell teabags of green tea that is dusted with a little bit of matcha

If you buy matcha in the store in usa you can buy at the grocery store if you want complete crap but if you want to upgrade to simply 'crap' then you can go buy matcha at a usa tea retailer like Teavanna.

>>692

TL;DW: It's overbrewed often cheap black tea with milk and sugar. A limey way of making tea.

Is any breakfast tea actually good? I've tried like 5 different brands and they're all bland and shit tasting.

>>698

That's a perfectly normal way to drink Gyokuro. Personally, I like to add a dash of Pepsi as well. I think that's the way Japanese emperors traditionally drank it.

>>699

The tea presented to the emperor every year is sencha.

Gyokuro was first produced in 1835

I don't drink coffee, but I imagine that a shu puerh could get rather close to what you seek. You'd have to get something of decent quality though, not the cheap generic shit they sell in supermarkets. And even then, it's an acquired taste for many people.

I'd recommend this: http://www.teavivre.com/loose-leaf-pu-erh/

It's not compressed so you don't have to fiddle around with puerh cakes and it's quite decent if I do say so myself. When I first tried it I was like "goddamn this just tastes like leather and dirt". I wanted to hate it but I actually kinda enjoyed the taste. Now I have like 10 different puerh cakes and bricks in my tea stash. An acquired taste indeed. Anyways, this tea I linked kinda reminded me of coffee at first. Mind you that I don't actually know what coffee tastes like, I only drink tea. Oh and it's gonna be on sale soon. I think 40% off starting tomorrow for a couple of days.

Alternatively, you could try to obtain a 50 year old sheng puerh, but you probably don't have that kind of money. And if you do, you'd just get scammed anyway.

Also, if your tea is bitter you're brewing it wrong. Or it's shit tea. Or both.

>>613

>Also, if your tea is bitter you're brewing it wrong. Or it's shit tea. Or both.

Unless it's a tea like matcha.

>>610

Then just drink coffee you fucking plebeian shitface.

Sometimes I mix strong black tea with a shot of espresso , a cloud of cream and some sugar. It's ok

>>613

>>puerh

I know a lot about tea. But I just can't understand pueuh. Some is green some is black. Some is processed 'wet' some is processed 'dry'. Hard to tell if what you are getting is real. Hard to tell online who is the reputable seller & who is not.

I asked the skinny hot asian chick what she thought of pueuh, & she said people only drink that if they are trying to take a dump.

So I have not delved into that world yet.

American't here. I like a little honey and milk sometimes as a treat.

Canadian reporting in.

>>721

I live in Scotland, and I always encourage people to drink better quality tea, and have it without milk.

I consider myself a teavangelist.

"I like my tea harvested by underpaid Indians, completely ripped to shreds and dust by machines, put into tiny bags, distributed through a dozen different companies, prepared with boiling water, oversteeped, and finally, since my hatred of tea knows no bounds, I like to ruin the result with milk. Just in case."

- British person

I do like china black tea with cream and sugar it brings out the chocolaty notes :) :)

>>352

ayyy

I think Hibiscus infusions taste like rose hips and beets.

I dunno do you like green or black ?

any 'tips' ??

hahahaha

I made a funny.

chephyr

>>593

Fuck off, beaner.

I personally don't consider anything a "real tea" unless it's from the Camellia Sinensis plant, anyways.

>>603

BASED

It's not a tea. It's a tisane.