Tea!
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I love chai tea. That smell, though.
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My favorite tea is coffee.
Yessss~
Tea is also good, but coffee is my favorite.
My current fav is the staggeringly delicious fresh roasted Mordecofe. It is of course very seasonal, but wonderful when we can get it. Go get some! And don't you dare sully it with milk or sweeteners. This is vitae in bean form.
That saaaid I do like tea also, generally in the afternoons, or all through the night for herbal tisanes.
I'm particularly fond of roasted chicory root, which ends up looking exactly like (rather large) coffee grounds, and for me has an additional raisin-like scent. It goes well added to coffee (hello, New Orleans style!) as well as on its own or with various ad-hoc tea mixtures. If I'm going to do a non-caffeinated coffee, I use this stuff. Along the topic of herbal tea mix additives, I am fond of hyssop, allspice, and cloves, often in a lemongrass/rooibos mix.
For actual tea tea I tend to go with Harney and Sons, though there are a couple small-scale tea makers I like, such as Metolius. In terms of tea-type, I'm largely a fan of Darjeelings and Oolongs. I'm not generally a fan of Earl Grey, as I find bergamot to be a bit harsh-- but Metolius has an amazing Earl Grey tea that even I can enjoy.
If we're talking flavoured teas, Whittards vanilla tea is very good, ditto their Russian caravan though thats a smoky tea like lapsang souchong so not for everybody. I could drink vanilla tea all day I think.
My sister ordered some lapsang souchong and gagged and handed it off to me. I'm... still a bit uncertain what to think of it. It's very smoky, and is not unlike brewing a pot of scotch, with all of the good and bad that might suggest.
Never liked green tea. Tastes like grass.
This may be somewhat an artifact of handling; I've had a variety of green teas that were marvelous, and then some others that arrived smelling like a tin of lawn clippings.
I have a similar issue. Most oolongs taste like dirt/twigs to me.
...hm. Well, to each their own, more for me, etc., but I find this a fascinating comparison as to me various dirts and twigs have a fascinating variety of different flavors (or smells, more often).
The other is a four year old "raw" tea too, but one that was fungally infected so that it ferments slowly. At four years of age it's begun to pick up the earthy taste that is the appeal of this tea. Were I a patient sort I'd keep this stored until it's at least ten years of age, but I'm not such a sort so I won't.
That sounds deliciousss.
- DO NOT USE BOILING/JUST-BOILED WATER.
I beg your pardon. I use a proper electric kettle with digital temperature control so that I can give the greens, whites, etc. the proper temperature. Boiling water blindly in an uncalibrated kettle is for peasants.
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David's Tea is where I go to get loose tea, when I have the dollars. I prefer their Cream of Earl Grey, which is Earl Grey and vanilla, basically. Their chili chocolate chai is also excellent.
Oddly, my favourite chai is probably just the stuff from Starbucks. Yeah yeah, whatever. I like the peppery taste. It takes most like mine, when I choose to make it, and I don't have to scoop crap out of it a pot.
I like Red Rose, when I want to consume more tea than a person should in one sitting. Otherwise, I prefer Twinings Earl Grey to everything else you'll find in a bag.
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When I want chai, I go out for it. I don't know. I just don't make it at home.
And I don't mind that, at all. It keeps it a nice little treat.
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I've tried to make hot or even iced milk chai, for all that I could drink myself sick on Oregon Chai. I've never managed it.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@Thenomain said in Tea!:
I've tried to make hot or even iced milk chai, for all that I could drink myself sick on Oregon Chai. I've never managed it.
It's just never the same as when I go out and get it made for me.
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Chai is hard to get right in the home without, like, an instructor to show you exactly how. XD Every time I've tried, I either end up with a weak/bad brew, or there's too much/too little milk... its an art form.
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Now I want a cup of chai and all I have is Constant Comment, which is good but isn't chai.
