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What teas do you have?

  • 27-04-2011 11:09pm
    #1
    Amhran Nua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭


    Just had a root through the musty depths of the tea cupboard and thought, well if this isn't worth a boards thread, what is? I have:
    • Chinese special gunpowder tea
    • Ahmad freeze dried
    • Tescos cheapest, because I like the utilitarian foil
    • Several packs of that Chinese flowering tea, which is no good to me because I only drink from a cast iron tetsubin teapot, and I haven't the glass teapot you need
    • Camomile
    • Earl Grey
    • Assam
    • Lyons tea
    • Some indecipherable Chinese tea I got as a birthday gift, shrink wrapped, apparently it's a sedative, not sure what they were trying to say there
    • Mint tea
    • Pu-erh tea, onomatopoeically named
    • Oksusu cha
    • English breakfast tea
    • Oolong tea
    • Sencha, Genmaicha, and Houjicha
    • Numerous other undefineables I haven't got around to categorising yet
    • And I plan to dry out the nettles in the back garden at some stage and see what happens
    What's in your tea collection?


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  • #2
    sarkozy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    I don't know much about tea. I'm a Barry's Gold Blend man. But living in southern Africa accustomed me to rooibos. A nice alternative. And I've just come back from China with a kilo of Yunnanese tea. In Africa, I built up quite the tea collection, but I've no idea why.


  • #3
    Amhran Nua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    sarkozy wrote: »
    In Africa, I built up quite the tea collection, but I've no idea why.
    It's a bit of a hobby I guess. You can enjoy a nice coffee (and I do, probably a shade too often), but you savour a good cup of tea. Not for nothing do the Japanese have around forty seperate implements and an entire ceremony just to get their cuppa! I wouldn't go that far myself, but if I need to focus on a complicated task, I do find a carefully prepared infusion of tea leaves helps with concentration and mental balance.

    Next on the shopping list, one of those tealight braziers to keep it warm for an hour or two.


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