/tea/ general

[Anonymous No.9655002]

What's your favourite tea and why? I just had pu erh for the first time and it's great.

[Anonymous No.9655014]

>>9655002
Tetley or Yorkshire tea.

[Anonymous No.9655021]

>>9655002

[Anonymous No.9655025]

Laoshan Black is great. Its got nice chocolaty toasty notes.

[Anonymous No.9655029]

I love tienguanyin, there is nothing better than the floral after taste

[Anonymous No.9655039]

[Anonymous No.9655056]

Favourite Tea
>Green:
Yunnan Mao Feng
Sencha
Dragon Well
Ginseng
Jasmine
>Black:
Darjeeling
Masala Chai
Zhengshan Xiaozhong
>White:
Bai Hao Yinzhen
Shou Mei
Bai Mudan
>Oolong:
Shui Xian
Tieguanyin
Da Hong Pao

[Anonymous No.9655381]

>>9655056
is it true green tea lowers testosterone?

[Anonymous No.9655388]

>>9655381
Definitely not in amounts you are likely to be drinking it.

[Anonymous No.9655419]

>>9655388
6 cups a day, 250ml x6

[Anonymous No.9655509]

>>9655002
For me it's:

Oolong > Darjeeling > Green > Aged Pu-erh > White > Other black teas >>>>>>>>> anything sold in a tea bag

Oolong strikes a nice balance between black and green which I could drink every day. There are also varieties which taste like milk, and other cool ones, overall top tier.

Darjeeling is the king of black teas, tastes and smells like flowers, very light.

Green teas are nice, tend to floral/herbal tasting. I especially like the roasted greens or Genmaicha. Often green teas are flavored because they can be boring.

Pu-erhs taste like the smell of dried, slowly decaying Autumn leaves which is nice occasionally but I couldn't drink it every day. You also have to pay out the ass to get one.

White tea is basically slightly flavored water, imo not worth it but some people like them.

Most black teas are kind of boring, imo. For a while I liked Persian style tea (with cardamom and Assam) but it got boring.

Most things in tea bags aren't worth it because they're very one-note or insubstantial unless you oversteep them and then they're bitter as balls. They're often filled with dustings.

[Anonymous No.9655516]

Russian caravan

[Anonymous No.9655549]

>>9655509
Do you live in the middle of nowhere or why do you have to pay so much for pu erh?

[Anonymous No.9655596]

>>9655549
Where can you buy Pu-erh that's aged? Most of the stuff I've seen in stores is the fresh stuff.

[Anonymous No.9655608]

>>9655596
>>9655509
Most online vendors offer aged pu-erh for a decent price. Never trust eBay or Amazon though. Easy way to get jipped.

[Anonymous No.9655613]

>>9655002
Personally like lapsang souchong. Reminds me of both smoked, cured meats and the humidor of a cigar lounge.

[Anonymous No.9655624]

>>9655613
>bring some lapsang souchong to work for everyone to try
>all the men really like it
>all the women think its disgusting

Why can't women handle the smokey goodness?

[Anonymous No.9655641]

>>9655596
aren't most commercial pu ers artificially aged (except for the high quality ones obviously)?

[Anonymous No.9655666]

>>9655624
>>9655613
Femanon here. It's god-tier during the winter to me.

[Anonymous No.9655690]

Been trying Jin Jun Mei these past two days. I really like it, but I doubt I'll buy it regularly. I agree with >>9655025 on Laoshan teas being great. Love the toasted flavor they have and would love to find some other teas like that. I think my favorite is the Gan Zao Ye, even if it isn't a real tea.

[Anonymous No.9655821]

Today I brewed white tea for the first time. It was Yunnan (shop) Bai Mudan, it was fucking amazing, the best tea I have ever tried. It was fruity, subtle sweet with rich taste and aroma, I can't shill this fucking enough. And it was my first time so I could not get the proportions right meaning it will only get better with time. I brewed 7 gramms for a 150 ml pot and it lasted about 7 times.
>>9655056
How do you brew your Bai Mudan and Tieguanyin?

[Anonymous No.9655866]

>>9655641
That was my impression. I first tried Pu-erh from a brick-and-mortar store, Red Blossom Tea Company which I know sells legit stuff because so many of them are the artificial shit.

>>9655608
>Easy way to get jipped
Yeah, I've heard people having success with online vendors but it's harder to tell what's real if it's not in front of you.

[Anonymous No.9655883]

>>9655002
what puer did you have? There's a really wide range of flavours so most people dont take a liking to it at first.

[Anonymous No.9655903]

>>9655690
I feel like I'm in the same boat here. How do you brew Jin jun mei, I've tried it western and gong fu (cant remember the parameters) and it never tasted like it infused well even when it was brewed for ~5 mins

+1 for laoshan black and green

[Anonymous No.9655999]

>>9655883
https://www.teegschwendner.de/en/teashop/black-tea/china-black-tea/2151/china-mannong-pu-erh?c=201
This was the first, has a really nice smell as well. (note that I liked tea for a long time but only drank pleb tea, so it was kind of a new awakening)
After that I went to an asian supermarket and bought https://www.asia-in.de/Pu-Erh-Tea-Yunnan-227g
I like the first one better, but the second one offers better value for money in my estimation

[Anonymous No.9656221]

I enjoy some brown rice tea

[Anonymous No.9656242]

>>9656221
how does it taste? like a malty green tea?

[Anonymous No.9656408]

I've been trying to make decent chai but I can't the recipe right, everytime is has a nasty aftertaste. I like the spice in chai but I'm obviously fucking something up.

I use
>cloves
>cardamom seeds
>cinnamon sticks
>pepper
>ginger
>darjeeling for the tea

Aside from my measurements which are pretty fucked, any ideas? I've seen people use star anise and rooibos but I'm not sure what they taste like

[Anonymous No.9656447]

>>9655641
There's a few different kinds of pu'er, the ones you can get for cheap have been fermented to simulate aging

You can still buy the real shit though. My local tea shop has a 35 year old cake that they've been hanging on to.

[Anonymous No.9656683]

>>9655903
I just did it my usual way with a brewing basket at roughly gong-fu proportions. I'm not quite sure how much it was because I just used the whole sample packet that I got with an order of some other teas, but it was plenty strong with just 30 seconds on the first infusion and I've gotten to the forth at a minute with it still strong.

[Anonymous No.9656697]

I think lapsang souchong is the only tea I actually like

[Anonymous No.9656719]

>>9656697
Try Russian Caravan.
It's a blend with some Lapsang Souchong in it.

[Anonymous No.9656749]

Chamomile is the only "tea" I enjoy entirely.

I loath the taste of darjeeling but drinking a really good one induces the sort of euphoria that I associate with proper drug experiences - but without any of the side effects.

[Anonymous No.9656802]

>>9656749
Nigga you getting high on a mild dose of caffeine

[Anonymous No.9656819]

>>9656802

I'm caffeine-hardened as fuck tho...

[Anonymous No.9656827]

>>9656802
It's about L-theanine, theobromine, and theophylline at least as much as the caffeine.

[Anonymous No.9656829]

>>9656819
Nigga Russian prisoners have to boil a fuck-tonne of tea into a concentrated caffeine syrup over several hours to get a high and here you are going to space on a cup of regular ass darjeeling

[Anonymous No.9656844]

>>9656829

I mean, it was a dope ass cup of darjeeling...
estate grown first flush.

[Anonymous No.9656855]

>>9656844
It's tea nigga not LSD

[Anonymous No.9656868]

>>9656855

I guess you've just never had good tea.

[Anonymous No.9656889]

>>9656868

Nigga if tea were a drug then Lin Zexu and the Daoguang Emperor would have set that shit on fire with all the opium they hated

Go roleplay somewhere else you fat sack of shit.

[Anonymous No.9656896]

>>9656889
they hated opium because it was a foreign way of control retard.

[Anonymous No.9656897]

>>9655002
pu'er tastes like the way cigar butts smell to me. I only drink it when someone else orders a pot for the table. I mainly stick to not-as-fermented oolong teas or jasmine.

[Anonymous No.9656932]

>>9656896
And how exactly would a foreign way of control have worked if niggas could get blazed on domestic fucking tea, nigga?

Got damn.

[Anonymous No.9656957]

>>9656932

Turns out that opiates are somewhat stronger and more addictive than caffeine.

[Anonymous No.9656991]

>>9656957
So jolly old England waged two whole wars and established an entirely new colony to get their hands on a less effective means of control when they had perfectly good opium farms right at home

Nigga...

[Anonymous No.9657007]

>>9656991

Do history majors just naturally become compulsive liars?
Or are compulsive liars just naturally drawn to that particular branch of academia, finding the hard sciences a less practical field for their talents?

[Anonymous No.9657441]

So I got an electric kettle with a bunch of preset temperatures for tea and the lowest one is labeled delicate (160F). What constitutes delicate tea? Next lowest temperature is green at 170F.

[Anonymous No.9657473]

>>9657441
white tea and some greens

[Anonymous No.9657529]

right now im craving white tea, or white peony tea, or oolong. i like the low caffeine content. green tea is a bit too grassy, and i just dont crave black tea. but, if you have never brewed assam in a glass carafe, with the afternoon sunlight filtering through the ruby red liquid, then you have not yet lived.

[Anonymous No.9657546]

>>9655002
>general

[Anonymous No.9657570]

>>9657441
sencha

[Anonymous No.9657587]

>>9657546
fuck you niggy we have /teagen/ all the time.

[Anonymous No.9657619]

For me, its green tea from japan

[Anonymous No.9657985]

>>9655002
My personal chai blend. Fragrant and uplifting without caffeine jitters. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.9657999]

>>9656408
Use cardamom pods not seeds. Go easy on the cloves. If you use pepper, use whole black corns. Try to avoid dried ginger powder- chopped dried ginger root is a better bet (candied ginger also works well if added to the teapot). You need a robust tea, lapsang or Russian caravan are ideal. I use star anise personally, and dried rose petals.

[Anonymous No.9658052]

>>9656242just purchased some genmaicha from Amazon. It's pretty tasty, roasty and kind of savory. Nice, I think it's the best taste I've ever had in tea. It almost has a Japanese ramen taste but yet not and then you remember it's tea.

[Anonymous No.9658989]

Bai Mubump