Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Blooming tea - Yunnan
My wife's birthday today.
Béla

From all of US... Tell her Happy Birthday!

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

From all of US... Tell her Happy Birthday!

Thank you Phil and all of US and everyone.
Here is She:

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Thank you Phil and all of US and everyone.
Here is She:

Lovely lady... You're a lucky one...

ok, sitting here enjoying my 3rd pot of the night, some sadaf special melange w/Earl grey. im not addicted no. and steph, i now only need one more tea glass, and man are you a bad influence. i want to get me one of those Russian style ones, hopefully when the eagle poops in a few weeks i will order me one.

Here you will see a pot of Grand Bois Cheri black tea from Bois Cheri, Mauritius:



It has a very nice vanilla taste—I believe a lot of Mauritian tea is mixed with vanilla to improve the flavour...something to do with it being cultivated at lower-than-optimum altitude.

A nice cup of tea, though, or so I think, however, it's not great for multiple steeps. After that first one, it loses a lot of that vanilla flavour that gives it its character...I might have used water a bit on the hot side as well, though.

Still can't seem to find decent lighting for my photos; plus, check me out it the teapot there!

I also have a question for anybody familiar with Japanese tea (if anyone Japanese could confirm, that would be great):

I have, in my cupboard, a packet of Miyazaki San Nen bancha. Most places on the internet seem to recommend sticking it in a kyusu and steeping for anywhere between 30 seconds and three minutes with hot to boiling water, depending on what site you're reading from.

I've heard, however, that the more traditional way is to bring it to the boil in a stove-top kettle and then allow it to simmer for about 10 minutes, though I can't actually find anywhere that confirms this method.

In essence, my question is how should one properly prepare bancha?

EDIT: I wonder how many times I can post with a different teapot in each photo...

Now I want to know what's the view out the window like!


Mick

Steph, this ones for you so don't drool all over your puter again or you will need a new one. tonight it was some sadaf special melange with Earl grey paired with my breakfast at 3pm. sausage and eggs

I like a bloke who knows how to apply pepper properly! I had the exact same thing to eat for my breakfast this morning. Although I haven't hit the tea yet. I just settled for a cup of the instant coff...Wait! No I won't swear! I'm off to correct a discrepancy. I need to have a decent cup of tea. It will be Russian Caravan I reckon. That makes for a good first tea of the day. The next couple will be Pu-erh, and since I'm out of the Royal Ceylon, I will finish the day with Earl Grey.


Mick

Mick i wish i still had my rabbit style pepper grinder, it would have been black then and i like the pepper very very corse ground, but i do like alot of pepper on my eggs, they can't be to white

I hear ya brother!


Mick