Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by JOB15

At the moment I have a slight flu so it's ginger tea time , I make it about 3 times per day.

I try to drink this whenever possible really because I just know its good for me.

Slice up some ginger.
Add some sugar.
Boil for 20 mins.
Get it in yu.

I use too much ginger. I like it extra spicy.
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Job15
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What's you ginger,water, sugar ratio ? Looks very interesting !

I use a piece of ginger , say half a golf ball size.
2 cups of water. 10 mins boil with the lid on, then 10 mins boiling with no lid.
This should leave me with just under a cup full of spicy ginger tea.
My girlfriend pointed out that because it's cooked in a pan it is actually ginger soup.
Semantics

It's trial and error until you get your mix rite

Another method is to boil the ginger in Coke cola..

Originally Posted by JOB15

At the moment I have a slight flu so it's ginger tea time , I make it about 3 times per day.

I try to drink this whenever possible really because I just know its good for me.

Slice up some ginger.
Add some sugar.
Boil for 20 mins.
Get it in yu.

I use too much ginger. I like it extra spicy.
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It works! My Chinese friends always insist I use "red sugar" 红糖 (seems the same as brown sugar... the darker the better).
They also say to leave the peel on, in that it's more "medicinal" than the ginger itself. I'm like you, though, and prefer peeling it.
As if all that ginger and sugar isn't enough of a shock, you're also supposed to drink it as fast as you can

Celebrating the new website!
Mi Lan Xiang Dan Cong Oolong Tsa





After two weeks, I finally discovered the new website.

смородина чёрная чай



A Russian friend, that knows my passion about teas and herbs, brought me some herbal teas that her parents picked themselves outside their country house, in the border of Russia and Ukraine, north of Kharkov.


смородина чёрная, blackcurrant in English, was the best of them. Very delicate taste, fresh but not bitter nor acid. Slightly sweet, you can identify the taste of the fruit by just drinking this tea. Very tasty, very classy.
Have a nice Sunday!

Big tea drinker here. I always pack bottled Lipton iced tea in my lunch at work, as well as drinking green tea in the morning and some kind of sleep aid tea before I go to bed (CS Sleepytime or Yogi Bedtime).
I like it and I feel like its better for me than drinking Diet Coke all the time.

I thought I’d give this thread a bump. I haven’t been here in a while and it seems no one else has for a bit either. But I recently placed an order for some oolong and dragonwell green. I’ll post when it arrives.

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

I thought I’d give this thread a bump. I haven’t been here in a while and it seems no one else has for a bit either. But I recently placed an order for some oolong and dragonwell green. I’ll post when it arrives.

Love the Oolong,looking forward to your critique.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Love the Oolong,looking forward to your critique.

I’ll post some pics and notes. Maybe we get some foot traffic here again.

I got this over the weekend. One green Dragonwell and one Oolong. The one I'm drinking today is the Dragonwell, the 2018 first picking. Its a very sweet, vegetal flavor like peas. Also some wheat-ey flavors with a hint of clove. The brew was very fast to avoid any astringency. 6g of tea, 10 seconds of steep time, water at 180.