Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

its white tea for me its the least processed tea and most beneficial. no sugar as the flavor is too delicate and adding sweet or fruit juice would overpower. don't know why tea and coffee seem to have opposite effects if theyre both caffinated. must be some other compound in tea that is calming

Tea has a different type of caffeine than coffee and lacks all the volatile oils that coffee has.

another aspect of this that i dont believe is being considered, is the fact that where as coffee is best if it consumed within a timeframe after it is roasted, anywhere from a week to maybe 3 weeks depending on storage YRMV. stale coffee produces more of the unsavory acid than fresh. Where as there are teas that get better with age, pu erh for one, and i may be incorrect, but i am not aware of tea that can get stale. again i may be wrong, if i am i do appologize for my inadaquecy on this subject.

Tea just like anything else can go stale.I'm really not sure how long it takes though.I'm not that hardcore of a purist.I've had a box of Pg Tips unopened sit for a few months and it was fine.But bear in mind it was all wrapped up and sealed prior.I bought a very nice and affordable replica Chinese tea tin at cost plus world market and it works great.It's got a double lid so it really keeps the tea nice.I am really thinking hardcore about getting an electric Samovar.I love my Chai and my brit tea,but I could drink Russian style all day.I got a Russian Buddy that I been talking to on another thread and we've been talking tea. MMM..I gotta go grocery shopping but I''m feeling the tea pot and my Peterson pipe callin me errrgh! O the cruel temptations of my poor tortured life hahaha!!

And I just got some new shave soap and balm in from Al's shaving.So the blade is callin too.My life is utter heck

to be so troubled in life as to have a good pipe, a good cup of tea, and a great shave, what else could one want, well, there is always a great steak, and a good book. now i need a cup to relax, some more lapsang ought to do it.

Well....as much as I hate to admit it.A good woman would be nice too I suppose heh and fur kids are nice to have around also.Dog or cat or both,it done mattuh ta me as long as they are good companions .

I may have already said similar ,but out of all the threads I am really amazed at the feedback from this one.I just thought I was gonna get a few people who were like lipton ice tea people and that would be that. I was wrong indeed............very cool.

I haven't posted on this site in quite a while, but saw this thread and wanted to contribute. I started drinking tea a few years ago when I decided I was drinking WAY too much coffee. I was out of work with an injury and had nothing better to do than drink coffee, which was making me too jittery. I checked into it also about the same time I checked into shaving with a straight razor.

I ended up going the route of green tea, mainly for it's taste over black tea. All teas have a health benefit from them, some more than others but from my deep immersion I found that they are all pretty much in line with each other, meaning that if you like black tea than by all means drink black tea, don't just change to green or white because you think it will be that much better for you even if you find you don't enjoy it as much as the black tea.

Black teas are meant to have boiling water added whereas green should be brought just to a steam and white even less. This definitley affects the taste. I have a tea thermometer that I use and I've found some greens taste better at say 160 F while others maybe at 180 F. I am currently drinking a China gunpowder organic and it is my go to green...for now. There are also some loose leaf teas that can be infused multiple times, as was mentioned in the earlier post. There is no harm in doing it.

I drink only loose leaf tea, even at work. I keep it in container with a lid on it at pretty much room temp and out of the light it will stay fresh for a while. I have a portable strainer that I use for the leaves when I'm at work and just put it into my cup and steep. Most greens I only steep for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, but it's a personal thing.

As far as caffeine goes, the caffeine in tea acts differently than coffee. Coffee is pretty much a jolt type affect whereas tea actually helps clear your mind and keeps you alert. I can drink tea all day, and usually do, and have no problem sleeping at night. Black teas, which have the most caffeine, still only have about half as much as coffee. I believe the myth that you may sometimes hear that tea has more caffeine than coffee comes from the fact that unprepared tea leaves have more caffeine than unprepard coffee beans. Kind of odd, but that's one of those things I found in my spare time.

Studies have also been shown that people who drink tea on a regular basis are able to deal with stress much better than those who don't or who drink coffee. I've found that to be true in my own personal experiences and feel a lot less on edge. Herbal teas are another type of tea I drink on occasion, mainly at night.

Well, that's it for the tea rant for today. Enjoy.

We share the same view for sure.I still like to go to a coffee house and have a nice Iced vanilla latte when I want to just hang with friends and yak,but really.....Like you ,I can drink tea all dang day and even a full pot before bed and feel just fine.Coffee just rakes me over the coals pretty much .