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On November 26 2012 03:52 peacenl wrote:Show nested quote +On November 26 2012 02:59 WindWolf wrote:
So, one thing I saw at my tea store the other day was gingerbread flavored rooibos tea. It sounds good, I really like to drink fruit-flavored rooibos when I need to relieve my stress.
But it is expensive, 67SEK (~10 USD) /100 grams with my student discount, and I'm not sure if I should try it or not.
Do you guys think I should try it or not? Rooibos is fairly cheap to produce (even organic), as a result it seems that the price is fairly high, have you checked other shops? Maybe this also helps: I've just added the "Tea pick by 'peacenl-i'm-not-a-doctor' for common problems" paragraph, it's about time to make a nice index lol, losing overview now. To anyone: Again, feel free to add, I will try to validate everything by scientific papers and journals, we really want to help each other not advise each other miracle cures.
That is a nice addition. I have a cold right now so I will have to try to get a hold of some full leaf green tea or one of the other ones you mentioned.
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On November 26 2012 03:52 peacenl wrote:Show nested quote +On November 26 2012 02:59 WindWolf wrote:
So, one thing I saw at my tea store the other day was gingerbread flavored rooibos tea. It sounds good, I really like to drink fruit-flavored rooibos when I need to relieve my stress.
But it is expensive, 67SEK (~10 USD) /100 grams with my student discount, and I'm not sure if I should try it or not.
Do you guys think I should try it or not? Rooibos is fairly cheap to produce (even organic), as a result it seems that the price is fairly high, have you checked other shops?
The town where I live in is not very big, and AFAIK there is no other tea-specific shops.
But if we take a look at other rooibos-teas in that shop, most of those teas costs (Pre student- discount) around 30-40 SEK/100grams.
So I guess it is the spices in the tea that is expensive, combined with that it is a "limited edition" Christmas tea
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Ive recently bought some Lapsang Souchong black tea, and im not sure what the ideal steeping time is, the pacage says 2 minutes , while most internet sources say 4-5 minutes?
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On November 26 2012 05:45 Irratonalys wrote:
Ive recently bought some Lapsang Souchong black tea, and im not sure what the ideal steeping time is, the pacage says 2 minutes , while most internet sources say 4-5 minutes?
It really comes down to personal preferences. I'd personally go for 2 minutes, since it's better to not overdo it the first few times, especially because lapsang souchong is an acquired taste. And of course, try to remember the darkness of the color, it's a good indicator of flavor strength.
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I have recently got really lucky. I checked the local equivalent of online classified and found a teapot very similar to this in perfect condition for only 8 dollars. I was really happy and decided to go and buy my self some white pai mu tan because I was putting off trying white tea until I had a proper teapot. I have fallen in love with it and it is by far my second favorite tea (behind Irish Breakfast).
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I recently have started drinking a lot of Longjing Green Tea, and I've been wondering about the best steeping temperature.
I read on some blog that a lower sub-boiling temperature, about ~71°C is best for green tea, but I haven't had the chance to experiment with taste.
Is there much consensus on optimum steep temperature (to get the right amount of flavor without driving off lighter compounds), or should I just play around with it?
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On November 26 2012 08:58 Ichabod wrote:
I recently have started drinking a lot of Longjing Green Tea, and I've been wondering about the best steeping temperature.
I read on some blog that a lower sub-boiling temperature, about ~71°C is best for green tea, but I haven't had the chance to experiment with taste.
Is there much consensus on optimum steep temperature (to get the right amount of flavor without driving off lighter compounds), or should I just play around with it?
I've found with green teas in general, if you steep it too hot the taste is off, burnt and acrid. Try out a cooler steep and see how the flavor changes because, of course, it ultimately comes down to personal preference!
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I'm tempted to start mixing my own flavoured teas.
I've recently found these two teas work amazingly well as iced tea, just make up a big batch with slightly cooler water than normal (75 degrees or so) then chill it. Either drink it straight or mix in a bit of fruit cordial for the flavoured ice tea style. Amazing flavour
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I've been a tea enthusiast for a while now but have found Teavana's teas very expensive. Anyone else buy directly from there? Is there any reason why they are especially expensive across all their products? Are they high quality or just overpriced? My novice taste buds can't tell the difference.
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On November 26 2012 13:08 zPhenom wrote:
I've been a tea enthusiast for a while now but have found Teavana's teas very expensive. Anyone else buy directly from there? Is there any reason why they are especially expensive across all their products? Are they high quality or just overpriced? My novice taste buds can't tell the difference.
Teavana is like Starbucks of coffee. Quite literally now since Starbucks bought it. That should tell you quite a bit -- it's just mediocre loose leaf tea that they market is as "premium".
Their stuff ends up being about ~40 cents a gram which is enough to get you pretty decent stuff (much better than teavana will ever get you) with a lot more variety of actual tea. Honestly you can probably get supermarket looseleaf teas from your local chinatown that'd be comparable to teavana teas and it'd be much cheaper.
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On November 26 2012 13:08 zPhenom wrote:
I've been a tea enthusiast for a while now but have found Teavana's teas very expensive. Anyone else buy directly from there? Is there any reason why they are especially expensive across all their products? Are they high quality or just overpriced? My novice taste buds can't tell the difference.
Hello zPhenom ! Which tea stores did you visit until now? What's your favorite type or blend?
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I'm drinking this tea right now before going to bed.
It's absolutely delightful! It's like drinking liquid comfort.
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On November 24 2012 11:57 Milkis wrote:
Roasted oolongs go perfectly well with boiling water. In fact, some of them you should be aiming for as hot as possible. For the greener oolongs (which I assume you're talking about, since you say "they are not that far away from Green", and roasted ones are a world away from Green. Even then, even the greener oolongs are *very* different from green teas, so I have no idea what you're trying to get at) I've never been a fan of making them with boiling water. It makes them taste flat. For greener ones I try to go for a slightly lower temperate (around 80~90). I use gaiwans so I can't really recommend brewing time.
I'm going to test around this weekend!
Here's a cool read about someone who went to China to drink Da Hong Pao Oolong (Big Red Robe Oolong). You can skip the end of the article, it's mostly about some bizarre massage technique.
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Only oolong, and only oolong from china! I by it in tabao.
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In Morocco they drink tons and tons of 'Mint tea' which is just fucking awesome. I generally don't like tea, but this 'mint tea' stuff is just insanely good. This is coming from someone who drinks lots of coke every day.
From what I understand, it's gunpowder green tea made with lots of mint leaves and lots of sugar:
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I'm not a tea drinker at all but I could tell within a week the quality of a mint tea right away, a really good quality one would just blow you away.
And Tooons of sugar lol. I tried making it when I got back stateside with varying degrees of success.
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well as someone who drinks "tons of coke everyday" you are just not used to anything that isnt half sugar. so is see why the only tea you like is the one that is 
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I highly suggest everyone to try out the Tie Guan Yin tea(铁观音), it has a very nice floral aroma to it.
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So i moved to sri lanka, and during my first weeks we went on a roadtrip (15 hours driving, insane fun, broke down on a mountain gg.) but we drove through sri lankas tea fields (forget what they are called) and stopped at this amazing tea shop.
It was literally the best tea i had ever drank, so refreshing, so vibrant with flavour, i cant wait to travel back there again, was so good. It was a form of ceylon tea but im not sure which 
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Just glanced quickly through the list of teas in the OP and noticed that there no mention of mugicha---when I was in Japan we always kept a pitcher of this in the fridge to have as a cold refreshment after a hot and muggy afternoon of walking around. It is really good, but quite different from other green teas (which I assume it is) that I've had---not sure how to describe the flavor. Definitely recommended.
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On December 01 2012 04:15 RuiBarbO wrote:
Just glanced quickly through the list of teas in the OP and noticed that there no mention of mugicha---when I was in Japan we always kept a pitcher of this in the fridge to have as a cold refreshment after a hot and muggy afternoon of walking around. It is really good, but quite different from other green teas (which I assume it is) that I've had---not sure how to describe the flavor. Definitely recommended.
Isn't that wheat tea? If so, I should definitely add it yes, because I got introduced to it by a Japanese exchange student that said it was very common in Japan - contrary to what I expected: which is that everyone was drinking premium sencha 
It's very unique flavor wise and hard to describe, somewhat similar flavor to beer, I think because of the barley.
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