Tea drinkers unite

I gave up coffee about 7-8 months ago because I had a caffeine withdrawal symptoms every when I wouldn't drink it -- headaches of various strengths, mostly. I don't drink coffee anymore, but I do drink copious amounts of tea. But I never have those headaches anymore.

Malor wrote:

Well, maybe it's changed, since my experience is almost twenty years old, but when I was a youth, I'd set myself up with a pitcher of that stuff and get WAY WAY more wired than I would off coffee. But twenty years is a long time, and who knows what's changed since then?

You'd think I'd know better than to treat memories from almost a generation ago as if they were still fresh. A kid born back then would be old enough to vote now.

It's been a long time since I've ingested an entire pot of coffee.

But then, I'm going back to grad school part time this fall.

In my early 20s, I used to go through about three pots of coffee a day.

A pitcher of the the orange spice tea got me way more wired than downing a pot of coffee would. I suppose it might have been the sugar.

Malor wrote:

I suppose it might have been the sugar.

That was my next guess.

I'm going with the White Devil intoxication, too.

Robear wrote:

I'm going with the White Devil intoxication, too.

I have that effect on people.

Well played, sir.

Malor wrote:

In my early 20s, I used to go through about three pots of coffee a day.

A pitcher of the the orange spice tea got me way more wired than downing a pot of coffee would. I suppose it might have been the sugar.

Actually I remember watching some documentary on tea and they claimed (keyword there) that tea not only wakes up the body with the caffeine but there are other compounds that wake up the mind so you are wired and alert. Then they claimed that coffee only wakes up the body. I guess they were trying to make it seem like tea was similar to adderall. I don't know if its true since I don't drink coffee but when I do have a strong tea or 2 glasses of a normal brew, I do get this feeling like I'm floating lol.

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Stay Federated, my friends.

wordsmythe wrote:
Robear wrote:

I'm going with the White Devil intoxication, too.

I have that effect on people.

So do the people go, like, "wordsmythe, you White Devil, you, gimme some sugar!!"

Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Robear wrote:

I'm going with the White Devil intoxication, too.

I have that effect on people.

So do the people go, like, "wordsmythe, you White Devil, you, gimme some sugar!!" :P

Almost annoyingly often.

I took the time today to try out that brick of tea I bought. It's called Red Rhyme Pu-Erh (at least, that's the only words on the package I can read).

If you go brick, things to know:

-- Find a good way to get a hold of some of the tea. This thing is way too hard to cut with a knife or break. I sort of niggled at the edges of it with a knife in a fairly unsafe fashion. There's got to be a better way than this. Maybe a pair of pliers to break off a hunk and then crack it into bits? If you find one, let me know.
-- You don't need much. I finally got about half a tea-bag worth of leaf broken off and set it to brew just to try. I'm glad I was so conservative, because it has turned a full 32 ounce glass teapot so dark I can't see through it in about five minutes.

The flavor is lovely. Strong, but almost velvety smooth. It's definitely a black tea, but it still has a hint of green and flowers in it. It's good all by itself, but a touch of honey would really be good too. I tried a small splash of lime juice in the second cup (don't have any lemon in the house right now, back off me) and liked that, too.

momgamer wrote:

If you find one, let me know.

There's a special tool for it, http://www.teacuppa.com/Pu-Erh-Knife.asp . If you don't want to pay for one of those then something along the lines of a letter opener or hell, probably a screw driver, will do the trick.

Here's a guide on doing it with the Pu-Erh knife:

krev82 wrote:
momgamer wrote:

If you find one, let me know.

There's a special tool for it, http://www.teacuppa.com/Pu-Erh-Knife.asp . If you don't want to pay for one of those then something along the lines of a letter opener or hell, probably a screw driver, will do the trick.

I figured. For every job, there is a perfect tool. And yeah, I was totally doing it wrong. The tea is still awesome. I've finished the pot now, and I'm thinking about trying another brewing of those same leaves to see what it does.

I'm learning all sorts of new stuff today. When I was fumbling around like a moron the first time, I found a little piece of paper in the tea. I set it aside, but after reading that page and looking up some stuff I got curious looked it up, and it's called a nei fei, and is sort of a certificate of authenticity. It's got a holographic band through it, a whole lotta characters all over it, and in English says "Menghai Tea Production Co. Xishuanghanna Yunnan China", which is apparently these dudes.

Please let us know how rebrewing goes/went momgamer. I've seen a fair bit of mention of it with the suggestion being that in order to experience the "full and proper range" of flavours rebrewing is an important part of tea tasting. For pu-erh in particular I believe I've read as high as 12 rebrews which sounds pretty nasty to me.

I'm in LOVE. I have a little paring knife that works beautifully for peeling off a hunk so I'm not in danger of slicing anything off to get a pot of tea anymore.

I can report I've gone as high as five re-brewings, and not had the flavor or texture change a bit. It hasn't gotten appreciably lighter, and the flavor is still awesome. The only reason I cut out at that point is 12 re-brewings of my pot is a heck of a lot of tea. If I drank 48 cups of ANYTHING in one day I'd be influenced by the next tide.

It also handles stewing as long as overnight without a hitch. Most other teas get bitter if you let them steep for two long. I was in a hurry and hadn't finished a pot Wednesday night so I just covered it with the infuser still in it and stuck it in the fridge. I took it out and nuked the last cup the next morning and it was as smooth as it was the night before.

Fellow tea lovers,
I'm looking to get a gift for my father who is a long term Orange Pekoe lover, however discerning Pekoe qualities is not yet within my ability.

In terms of marketing the best of the best available locally seems to be "First Flush Darjeeling Junpana FTGFOP 1" that's great and all but is this kind of stuff worth the premium over other Orange Pekoe or is it all hype? What should I be looking for?

Took a gamble and the Pekoe lover is rather enjoying his FTGFOP 1, however the mere fact that it's supposed to be fancy is enough to sway his palate so YMMV.

As an aside someone else may be interested in this bizarre tea-champagne hybrid http://www.goldenstartea.com/.

edit: Realized I can't drink the golden star but I'll leave the mention of it for anyone who may want to check it out.

Tempest in a teacup? (Yes, it's the Daily Mail... that's the link I saw posted, and I'm feeling too lazy to track down a better source.)

Twinings has provoked the ultimate storm in a teacup by tampering with one of its best-known and most cherished blends.
Fans of the company’s Earl Grey tea are furious that the firm has altered the traditional flavouring and relaunched it.
Katy wrote:

Tempest in a teacup? (Yes, it's the Daily Mail... that's the link I saw posted, and I'm feeling too lazy to track down a better source.)

Twinings has provoked the ultimate storm in a teacup by tampering with one of its best-known and most cherished blends.
Fans of the company’s Earl Grey tea are furious that the firm has altered the traditional flavouring and relaunched it.

They made a new blend and it's been selling since April... And as far as I can tell, the traditional blend is still available.

Sounds to me like a slow news day, and Daily Mail dug up some negative feedback and made a story out of it.

Have any of you tried drinking tea in a low-key..tea... way? This attention to detail, to blends and blocks and whatnot shows passion and attention. But coming from a culture where tea is prevalent - although I've only been drinking it regularly for a few years - it's a bit like there's another aspect of it that could be explored: a nice cup of tea. Just a tea bag, some milk and sugar. A couple of biscuits. Something you look forward to after a long commute. If you're breaking bricks, that's less likely to happen.

1Dgaf wrote:

Have any of you tried drinking tea in a low-key..tea... way? This attention to detail, to blends and blocks and whatnot shows passion and attention. But coming from a culture where tea is prevalent - although I've only been drinking it regularly for a few years - it's a bit like there's another aspect of it that could be explored: a nice cup of tea. Just a tea bag, some milk and sugar. A couple of biscuits. Something you look forward to after a long commute. If you're breaking bricks, that's less likely to happen.

I think it's something you tend to see a lot in any geek enthusiast group: people tend to want to get heavily involved in the minutiae. Personally, I've been drinking tea since I was old enough to hold it in my sippy cup and I'm of the opinion that all this fancy stuff still fails to beat the simple pleasure of a pot of P.G. Tips, from which I make mugs of tea with a bit of milk and sugar. Add in some McVities and a good book, and that's about as good as it can get, as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, you're right. I also wonder if.. Well, if one is new to 'something' and takes it very seriously from the beginning, that it marks one out as a kind of arriviste. I think that when one is truly comfortable with something, one doesn't make a big deal of it. I'd wager that, somewhere in CHina, there's an old bloke sitting on his haunches on a pavement, a cup of pu-erh in one hand, bent cigratte in the other.

It only took 5 pages to find the true meaning of tea.

It's funny to me you took my bumbling as any sort of tea-hipsterism.

When it comes to the blocks, I am a sort of arriviste I suppose (that's an awesome word, btw). I have drunk tea for years, but I just found this stuff. But that was more tracing out the learning curve than anything else.

I assure you, there is no big deal of it in the drinking. I don't have time for that sort of thing on a daily basis. My go-to is Tetleys in my big "Elixir of Sanity +3" mug consumed next to a keyboard.

1dgaf, I've been drinking tea in the proletarian way since childhood. But I do occasionally like to indulge with a pre-warmed iron and ceramic pot, twice boiled spring water and some variety of obscure Chinese tea that's been dried on the backs of the working class and crushed between the thighs of innocent college-age tea crushing women, practiced in their ancient art and glowing with the first blush of youth, (not to mention the caffeine they've absorbed through the skin as they gyrate around the rice mats), and...

Ahem. Let me rephrase.

Sometimes I like a fancy tea, too.

Where I came from, we ice the teas and mix them with syrup. Everybody just walks around or sits around or is otherwise occupied in a round-about manner, cup of iced sweetened tea in hand, and sips casually from the straw. It's a routine and a lifestyle. Where I came from is also where boba (bubble) came from.

Man, I miss that. If there's anything I miss, it's that.

Thirteenth wrote:

Where I came from, we ice the teas and mix them with syrup.

You shut your damned filthy mouth right now!

Bubble teas with syrup flavors are AWESOME.

Robear wrote:

Bubble teas with syrup flavors are AWESOME.

I know where you live, buddy.