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Do you drink tea every day?

yojitani said:
How is that stuff? I came across it in Nashville of all places but the store manager 'couldn't find the price' so refused to sell it to me:confused:.

I drink tea everyday - black tea (PG Tips usually, but also straight assam tea), Green Tea (homegrown from Japan), and Rooibos (organic). Since it's summer, I drink these all cold. I drink coffee too.. I don't see there being a fundamental opposition between the two.
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It's awesome! It has three different stimulants, twenty-four vitamins and minerals.
 
i love tea, i just don't drink enough of it, which is a shame because i should have it more often.
 
montanachad said:
It's awesome! It has three different stimulants, twenty-four vitamins and minerals.
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Yerba Mate is interesting stuff, I used to drink it quite often. The flavor is sort of earthy, not bad when you get used to it. It really needs to be strained with a very fine strainer or a coffee drip filter.
 
Tea is amazing.

Black, White, Green - you name it.

I drink it hot, with milk, without, sugar, without, cold/iced etc. I love trying new varieties and mixtures too.

I am actually in the process of starting to plan a tea - house for my area. I think the US is going healthier now a days and tea is a great way to do that. We have so many cafe's and coffee houses, we really need more that focus on tea here! I know in my area people are always ordering the tea varieties at the coffee house and are really excited when a new one appears.

It'll be a few years before I can actually make enough money for a start up (or get enough money and solid place in my life to take out a business loan for the venture), but once i have it, i'll have my research and business plan hammered out. :)

Tea is GREAT. Period :)
 
I've been waiting for tea to catch on in the States for years. It never seems to happen, mainly I think because most of the tea Americans drink tastes awful, resulting from the fact that hardly anybody knows how to make it. In fact I am noticing in the last few years that good tea is actually becoming harder to find, especially loose. Most of the small shelf space alloted to tea is being taken over by those awful fruit-flavored teas and the "luxury" brands, which are in reality over-priced mediocre teas in fancy tins.
 
IJ Reilly said:
I've been waiting for tea to catch on in the States for years. It never seems to happen, mainly I think because most of the tea Americans drink tastes awful, resulting from the fact that hardly anybody knows how to make it. In fact I am noticing in the last few years that good tea is actually becoming harder to find, especially loose. Most of the small shelf space alloted to tea is being taken over by those awful fruit-flavored teas and the "luxury" brands, which are in reality over-priced mediocre teas in fancy tins.
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I drink mostly Chinese and Japanese tea. Few American teas I have. ;)
 
Drink gallons of the stuff - nice and strong (stand your spoon up strength) with fresh milk. My recommendation is Twinings Everyday (the yellow box one) if you're in the UK.

Funnily enough though, if I'm in a cafe / train / hotel etc it's always coffee as you always seem to get UHT milk - which I can cope with in coffee, but don't like in tea.
 
IJ Reilly said:
hardly anybody knows how to make it.
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this is a major problem and the reason that I will not order tea in the US. Basically, I have not found a place that realizes that different teas need to be brewed at different temps. Black tea, for example, needs to be brewed in boiling water (sans milk or sugar) for about 3 -4 mins, unless you squeeze the bag:D, or it will taste like dirty sink water. Green Tea at a lower temp etc. ... so that poster who plans to start a tea house, take note!
 
iMacZealot said:
I went to the Tea Museum in Hong Kong a few weeks ago. You must go! I came back with the coolest mug.
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Can we get a photo of the mug?


dmr727 said:
In all seriousness, I like tea as well as coffee. But if I drink either, it'll be coffee in the morning and tea in the evening, or when I'm sick.
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I'm the same, except I need to drink a cappuccino either at 11 AM, or at 2 or 3 PM. It's an expensive habit, but if hot water dispensers were more prominent at my uni, I'd drink more tea than coffee.
 
I try to drink some earl grey every morning and then after work, I love having some Cinnamon Apple Tea. Fortunately, Bigelow still makes it but only in bulk and not in stores. I just hope they don't phase it out completely. :(
 
I drink lots of white tea and jasmine tea when I sit over my books for university. There is the small Asian store in a subway station here in Frankfurt. They import their tea from China.

I was in China last month. And there they have instand milk tea powder in every super market. Appears to be for them what instand cappuccino is for us. :rolleyes:
 
yojitani said:
this is a major problem and the reason that I will not order tea in the US. Basically, I have not found a place that realizes that different teas need to be brewed at different temps. Black tea, for example, needs to be brewed in boiling water (sans milk or sugar) for about 3 -4 mins, unless you squeeze the bag:D, or it will taste like dirty sink water. Green Tea at a lower temp etc. ... so that poster who plans to start a tea house, take note!
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I don't order tea in restaurants, even good ones. Boiling water and a pot (preferably ceramic) is all it takes, but you still get a cup of hot water with a bag on the side in most places. It doesn't really hurt to steep green tea in boiled water -- but this is never really an issue, since restaurants rarely give you anything much hotter than lukewarm.

Oh, and stop squeezing those tea bags. Filthy habit! :p
 
I've had a cup of regular tea with my breakfast for as long as I can remember.
I also drink one or two cups of green tea during the day.
 
I drink tea whenever I quit coffee. I've quit coffee about 34 kazillion times now, sometimes for a day, sometimes for a year.
 
I've been trying to substitute some of the coffee I'm drinking with tea.

Trying out a quite good Qing-Xiu tea at the moment:
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Quite yummy, but I think it suffers a bit from the Western stevia ban. They've had to remove stevia before exporting to Norway and I need a tea spoon of sugar or so in it (while I normally drink tea without anything in it, except maybe a drop or two of lemon).

Oh, and I also drink quite a lot of this iced green tea with lime:

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I probably go through 3 or 4 litres of that each week... and when available it has almost replaced Coke and Coke Zero... :)
 
Pixellated said:
Jasmine tea- no milk or sugar, 5 times a day :p
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I'm reading this while waiting for my big mug of Jasmine Tea to get to 'optimum temperature' (just cool enough to drink but still really really hot - it's a fine window!). Looooove it :)
 
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