Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

i actually have one of those i use specifically for pu erh, just picked up some teas today to try, will post when i get back home. pics will be included

I think it is feel free to use with other teas. (oolong, red...)
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oh i know, i find it easier to use the press pot for most of my loose teas, the pu erh works better in that due to the fact you can do the multiple infusions

I'd like to take a second to thank the people who visit this thread!! When I first got interested in tea, I knew about tea. It was made of dried leaves, it comes in bags and you can get it loose, but then need a strainer of sorts. Since then, I've come to learn that there is a World more than that, and, through some of your suggestions and help, have really come to love the wonderful variations available to me!

So, Thanks gang!! But, I must add, with this new-found knowledge comes special new problems!! Right now I can't decide on which tea to start my day with!! I now have too many choices and the confidence to know they can be brewed and enjoyed by me!!

Originally Posted by donv

I'd like to take a second to thank the people who visit this thread!! When I first got interested in tea, I knew about tea. It was made of dried leaves, it comes in bags and you can get it loose, but then need a strainer of sorts. Since then, I've come to learn that there is a World more than that, and, through some of your suggestions and help, have really come to love the wonderful variations available to me!

So, Thanks gang!! But, I must add, with this new-found knowledge comes special new problems!! Right now I can't decide on which tea to start my day with!! I now have too many choices and the confidence to know they can be brewed and enjoyed by me!!

and brother i feel ya on the to many choices issue, that is my problem every day, heck,with every pot. and every time i go to the local tea shops it gets worse. plan is to go to a shop in Cumberland MD in a few weeks with my daughter so there will be more tea to choose from

Originally Posted by wvloony

i have been looking for a better way to brew tea at work, i have a small press pot that works good, but i would like to find something else, so as i don't have to drag as much stuff with me. any ideas friends

A small teapot maybe? I use bag tea at work. We have a coffeemaker at work and only two of us use it and we are tea drinkers.The maker produces water hot enough for brewing and you can make it by the cup or in the carafe. Works great. I think you're makin it harder than it has to be though.Either a simple small pot and strainer or bag tea. Save the elaborate stuff for home. Just sayin man. Is their somewhere at work you could store a waterboiler ?

have a water pot i purchased especially for that purpose there, just picked up some bagged tea today to try, so that may be the way i will go, will let y'all know.

Originally Posted by wvloony

i have been looking for a better way to brew tea at work, i have a small press pot that works good, but i would like to find something else, so as i don't have to drag as much stuff with me. any ideas friends

I was just about to suggest teabags as the way to go. I'm surprised you don't have an Urn at work. I don't think I've worked too many places (office type enviroment) that didn't. I've done many a job that required a Thermos as well,but tea doesn't taste so good towards the end of the day with them.

Originally Posted by PigHog

I'm toying with the idea of getting some powdered sencha. Good quality tea without the brewing hassle!

Besides, I'd probably look like a bit of a twat if I took in loose leaf tea and a tiny, tiny teapot to brew tea at the office.

So, your avatar is nothing to go by then?!

After facing down the wonderful problem of having to decide which tea to start my day with, I went with the good old Earl. Brewed some up in my new little pot, filled up my travel cup and drove uptown to see my friend at his gas station. That was going to be my late morning. After, my son showing up, me going to pick up lunch for the three of us, getting a call from my daughter and riding with her on a 240 mile round trip; I came back home. And realised my halfa pot of Earl Grey was still waiting for me. So, I threw it over some ice, added more cold water and a couple lumps of sugar. I had never had recycled Earl Gray iced before, but sure look forward to having more!!

One more thing, I was glad and proud of my daughter asking me to go with her. She hadn't driven up there before, Redding Ca, and she also didn't think it would be smart to meet a stranger to buy some car rims. I'm glad I raised her smart, and I'm glad she isn't bothered to be seen with the old man!!

well today i had my first glass of Ahmad cardamom, and i like it, tomorrow i will try the alokozay black tea