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Coffee. or Coffee & Tea?

  • 24-09-2010 8:03am
    #1
    SirPeter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 39 ✭


    I've just looked down the page at this section, called "coffee & tea" and there are no threads on tea that i can see. Why?

    Is it that tea is seen as old fashioned and fussy. Or because its seen as downmarket and of poor quality "sweepings off the floor" teabags?

    I love coffee, but find too much of it is quite astringent and heavy on my insides. I've just rediscovered tea, and I mean good tea as opposed to those bleached paper teabags which contain dust, the tea worlds equivalent to coffee's powdered maxwell house. Yuck.

    Does anyone else here drink tea? Or should the forum be renamed "Coffee" alone?


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  • #2
    ch2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭ch2008


    Good call, "The Coffee Forum" it is so! ;)


  • #3
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    SirPeter wrote: »
    Does anyone else here drink tea? Or should the forum be renamed "Coffee" alone?

    Course, sure doesn't my name start with it!

    havin' a cup of bewleys finest as we speak, yum


  • #4
    SirPeter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 39 ✭SirPeter


    ch2008 wrote: »
    Good call, "The Coffee Forum" it is so! ;)

    As a matter of interest, why do you not drink tea? Or do you drink tea?


  • #5
    demakinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭demakinz


    i love a nice hot cup of tay in the mornings.



    I would drink tea all day at home but when i visit anyone i always have coffee..... It has to be lyons tea all the way.


  • #6
    ch2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭ch2008


    SirPeter wrote: »
    As a matter of interest, why do you not drink tea? Or do you drink tea?

    I'm quite picky about my coffee, to the extent that I can't really have a cup on my day off or when I'm travelling. With tea I'm a milk and one sugar kinda guy which means I'm easily satisfied. I've recently started looking into specialty teas which I fear is a decision which will come back to bite me ;)

    a lot of people think coffee folk are anti-tea but in my experience that's far from true. I don't think it's an either/or decision in the long run


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  • #7
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    SirPeter wrote: »
    [N]o threads on tea that i can see. Why?

    This was the most recent one.

    Leaving aside tea's fashionability, there's just a lot less to tea. Take away threads on grinders, and different brew methods and you'd probably halve the number of threads about coffee. These topics don't have an equivalent when it comes to tea so there's simply less to talk about.


  • #8
    SirPeter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 39 ✭SirPeter


    I heard that, in New Yoyk, London and Paris, Tea is making a quiet comeback among the cognoscenti. Single estate teas and top quality leaf teas are on the increase, as coffee is seen more and more as astringant and, increasingly, dowdy.

    Evidently there is a new crystal clear tea bag which allows proper leafy teas, (as opposed to the dust "sweepings off the floor" in ordinary tea bags) , and this is becoming quite the wow for the early adopters and cogniscenti.

    Watch this space.


  • #9
    terlywerly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭terlywerly


    FTGFOP wrote: »
    This was the most recent one.

    Leaving aside tea's fashionability, there's just a lot less to tea. Take away threads on grinders, and different brew methods and you'd probably halve the number of threads about coffee. These topics don't have an equivalent when it comes to tea so there's simply less to talk about.
    Got in there before me FTGFOP! :D
    I agree about the different coffee themed threads. It would be difficult to come up with enough different types of topics for tea related things. Really for tea, all you need is loose leaves, hot water, strainer/pot/etc and you basically have everything you need. That's why I enjoy tea as well, not a lot of equipment needed to enjoy the perfect cup :) And I'd reckon its probably cheaper to buy loose tea leaves than coffee (maybe I'm wrong here, but I wouldn't drink a lot of coffee).


  • #10
    Daffs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭Daffs


    There is an adundance to talk about Tea. But Hey I just have an infatuation for tea and Coffee. Its the new Wine!
    Where is it from: climate, altitude etc all give different tastes.

    I think, in Ireland, we were reared on Tea so maybe we just not ready for tea as trendy. But I think its on its way.
    The Coffee Explosion has started (granted some mank big brand stuff lorded it for a while but now decent coffee businesses are coming up).
    The Tea Explosion is waiting in the wings...

    Down with the Tea Bag and Yes, I concur, the Brewing of Tea is muchas simpler so less techno stuff to discuss ah...but the taste can also be divine and diverse!


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