Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

I haven't posted here in quite some time. But a package from China arrived today. Maybe I'll be posting here again this week.

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That would be nice......keep tea alive !

Ok, I'm back today. Mrs Li's Dragonwell. And this is a sweet, vegetal, toasted, and pressed Dragonwell from Verdant. I'm at five steepings and I think I've taken all that it has to offer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJI...ature=youtu.be

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

Ok, I'm back today. Mrs Li's Dragonwell. And this is a sweet, vegetal, toasted, and pressed Dragonwell from Verdant. I'm at five steepings and I think I've taken all that it has to offer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJI...ature=youtu.be

Is it an Oolong ??

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Is it an Oolong ??

No. Just a green tea.

Ok, I'm back for one more this week. He family's Laoshan Pine Needle Green. Its a very vegital tea, like sweet peas. And no, it contains no actual pine needles. It gets its name from its shape. It is first rolled like Oolong but then stretched back out straight.

OCDshaver, How long are you steeping the green tea?

I have made tea out of pine needles when camping. Not my cup of, well you know.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

OCDshaver, How long are you steeping the green tea?

I have made tea out of pine needles when camping. Not my cup of, well you know.

This tea steeps for about 10 to 15 seconds on the first steeping. Subsequent steepings increase by 4 or 5 seconds. And, as you know, this is NOT made with pine needles.

How to Brew Loose Leaf Tea | Verdant Tea

Nice. I'm all about loose leaf teas. Yerba mate mixed with Earl Gray w/ a cinnamon stick left in it while steeping in the morning, English tea w/ some ginger in the afternoon, and there's no better way to round out a day than some Lapsang Souchong w/ two pulls of Glen Grant 22 year old single malt scotch whiskey, save the loving of a good—and by good I mean bad—woman.

I got turned onto teas in the mid 90's while stationed in Norway, attached to the U.K.'s Royal Marines and its sort of domino'ed/snowballed (pun intended) from there. Rarely do I ever drink coffee.

Originally Posted by BloodOrange

Nice. I'm all about loose leaf teas. Yerba mate mixed with Earl Gray w/ a cinnamon stick left in it while steeping in the morning, English tea w/ some ginger in the afternoon, and there's no better way to round out a day than some Lapsang Souchong w/ two pulls of Glen Grant 22 year old single malt scotch whiskey, save the loving of a good—and by good I mean bad—woman.

I got turned onto teas in the mid 90's while stationed in Norway, attached to the U.K.'s Royal Marines and its sort of domino'ed/snowballed (pun intended) from there. Rarely do I ever drink coffee.

Check in here more often then. I went missing for about year but I've just started showing up here again this week.

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

This tea steeps for about 10 to 15 seconds on the first steeping. Subsequent steepings increase by 4 or 5 seconds. And, as you know, this is NOT made with pine needles.

How to Brew Loose Leaf Tea | Verdant Tea

So—different teas require different temps and steeping times for sure. There's no universal all encompassing method to brewing all loose leaf teas.

There's tea bags you can put loose leaf teas into—the unspoken rule is that if you do this, you ought to steep them using the same 'ways and means'—rather, the same stroke and speed as if you're rubbing one out (probably not the most civilized way to explain it, but it is the best) —keeping in mind you're trying to go all out.

Most of the time though—to save on time in the morning and afternoons, I'll strain loose leaf teas through a tea maker that drains from the bottom, on top of the cup. Not with lapsang souchong though. The irony, lapsang souchong isn't so much a high end exotic tea. The scotch whiskey is though—and the more I can do not to cheapen the process, the better.