/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've never had green tea that is actually green. For me it's always dark yellowish or lightly brownish.

A Darjeeling tea, called "Singell 1st Flush". I don't know the name of the estate it's grown on, though.

It's very light, with a floral smell. Taste is lemony, but not too strong.

holly hell, I almost forgot to drink tea.

I'm not sure wether I should drink it after or before my bath.

as for the kind of tea, it's 10% oxidized Tie Guan Yin, imported from china.

I'm poor, so I'm stuck with the cheapest tea. It was $1.00 for 100 bags. It's really low grade orange pekoe.

/jp/ drinks tea? Awesome.

I'm stuck currently drinking shitty store brand tea. Getting my unemployment check soon. Can someone link me to a good place to buy some premium tea?

Ha ha, pu erh.

>>8737077

There are any number of reasons why it might not be green. Try brewing at a lower temperature. Use a thermometer to be sure... try brewing at 70 C (158 F) for 2 minutes and see if that works.

>>8737089

Miko mode is suffering

>>8737090

Before. It'll relax you more and you can enjoy its effects while bathing. Plus it might make you sweat, which would be unpleasant after bathing.

>>8737116

I buy my tea from Yuuki-cha and Dao Tea. Both are easily googleable. There are a lot of overpriced, sub-par tea vendors online, but these are two of the few honest ones I've found so far. in b4 viral marketing

coconut rooibos. easily the best smelling thing I own.

>>8737137
That glass, what the fuck.

It's 85 degrees out, and I don't like any of the tea I currently have cold, so nothing.

>>8737143
Any US based stores? Also what type of tea do you recommend?

I got some amazing vanilla chai at the renaissance fest last year, and made my last batch of it today.

Ever make tea with one of these? Somehow I like it more than tea bags, even though I don't think there's actually much difference. Maybe the tea leaves you get that are loose are fresher or something.

>>8737162
>Maybe the tea leaves you get that are loose are fresher or something.
They're generally higher grade, yeah. Tea bag leaves are usually dust, and poor quality, whereas you can get the full SUPER TIPPY ULTRA FLOWERY etc etc kind of stuff with loose.

>>8737153

Yes, there's Den's Tea in California. Their stuff isn't premium quality, but it's decent.

>>8737148
Haha, two erh.

I don't like drinking my team when it's too hot.

Do I lose much on the taste ?

I'm drinking some basic loose leaf green tea now.
Nothing like this stuff to wash away all anxiety and relax at the end of the day.

By the way, is there a proper way to make cold green tea? Do I brew it normally and then cool it, or do I do something else.

I'm chilling some Vanillia Rooibos right now actually.

>>8737196
street ewery looks like a scarry place.

>>8737197

The taste you lose is probably from brewing it too hot, not drinking it too hot.

>>8737199

>Do I brew it normally and then cool it

This is a health hazard. Don't do this. Brew it at room temperature or in the fridge.

Just drank some matcha tea. Good stuff. I have yet to find a form of green tea that's tastier.

>>8737218
>health hazard
Why?

>>8737228

That's why sencha powder-coated in matcha is so popular in Japan.

>>8737233

It's what I've read, I'm not sure exactly. I think it has something to do with boiled water being more easily colonized by bacteria, but that's just my guess.

>>8737237
What? You make iced tea by boiling it and then cooling it down, so I really doubt it's a serious health hazard.

>>8737237
I don't know about a healt hazard... If pasteurization works, shouldn't this? The only caveats I have heard are to not use water that's been boiled previously, because the lack of dissolved oxygen affects the flavor...

>>8737116
upton tea gets half its business from /jp/

>>8737273

Pasteurized products are also sealed in sterilized containers under food-grade packing conditions. Tea isn't, unless it's bottled commercially.

>>8737304
You got it backwards. You want to brew it at high temperature for a few minutes before cooling. Not doing that is the health hazard.

I usually just drink some kind of cheap "orange spice" tea with my waifu. I am not a tea connoisseur by any means, I take my tea with lots of sugar, too.

>>8737334
>You got it backwards
^^

chemfag here, more aroma if you brew it at room temperature.
it's called maceration (or cold extration, but maceration is the specific term for beverage making) you don't have esters (the main chemical that give flavors n shit) evaporating, and you don't damage no chemical that would ruin the tea.
the taste is definitely different, but you need 6 good hours to 12, depending on which result you want. Note that the taste will not be as strong as if infused, but the flavour will definitely be richer, though It can be bitter if poorly done.

As for bacteria, it's not like you didn't filter the water and drink in a glass that wasn't washed for three good month. Water being a health hasard, really /jp/ ? well maybe if you live in mexico, but afaik nobody died from drinking water that was in contact with air for 12 hours.

>>8737149
It's actually recommended to drink hot tea against hot weather. All the Arabs do that.

>>8739650
And look at how far they have come

>>8739662
that's a thing they have had from the time they weren't arabs but persian empire and shit.
They had elephant coming from fort.
trust me on that one, I played age of empire.

I ran out of Longjing tea two days ago. ;_;

I drink loose (or if i'm retard lazy, bagged) Sainsbury's Red Label tea.

I'm too lazy to buy anything else. Personally I think it tastes great, but it seems to be fairly fine so I really wonder about the quality.

Drank some assam today, last week tried oolong.
Not bad but I'd rather stick to coffee until I find some blend with a good bitter taste and aroma.

It's almost 6AM and I haven't slept yet, so no tea for me. I don't have anything particularly special right now, just mostly the cheapest stuff I could buy for iced tea when it's warmer. I'm waiting for the new harvest before treating myself to something nice.

Genmaicha in the morning, Matcha in the noon.
These are my favorite teas.

>>8739917
Why is mine so brown ;_;

>>8739924
There is chocolate on your spoon.

I bought this set from a flea market for 2 euros. I think it looks pretty nice.

black tea should be brewed as close to boiling as possible, right?

>>8739935
Wow, I'm jealous. I should go to one some time, too. Maybe I'll find something as nice as that.

I've never really been good with tea. I feel I should drink the stuff, as I'm British and all, but I always find the window between it being too hot to drink and unpleasantly lukewarm is too small to drink the stuff. Is dealing with the range of temperatures just an acquired taste?

>>8739943
I brew it at 200(f)
I've heard 208, but my kettle isn't so flexible.

Where can you buy tea in the EU?

>>8739935
Looks nice but a traditionally tea set have to be white from the inside, so you can enjoy the blaze of colour of your tea.
>>8739943
Depends on the type of black tea you've got. The brewing temperature and time should be written on the tag of your tea. But yes, mostly it's like pretty close boiling temperature for black tea.

Can someone who's more familiar with green tea here tell me a few of the basic differences between all the green teas? And I've never heard of matcha before. How does it taste compared to normal green tea?

Damn it.
I want to talk about tea but I have to go to bed now to get my four hours.

Hopefully this thread will be up tomorrow, 'night /jp/.

I've been drinking rooibos with things in it like cinnamon, because tea is too strong for me. I love the flavour of tea, but it changes my mood.

>>8739959
You can't. The parliament banned it like everything else.

>>8740109
ｗｗｗｗｗｗhat?

>>8739959
http://www.postcardteas.com/

Someone recommended me this site. Haven't ordered anything myself, though.

>>8740109
No one banned "tea" in the EU, are you retarded?

>>8740068

There's asamushi, which is lightly steamed and brews a very light green hue. There's chumushi, or 'medium' steamed which brews a bright greenish-yellow. And then there's fukamushi, which brews much closer to green.

Matcha is specially harvested powdered tea. It tastes very good, but making matcha is completely different from ordinary tea brewing. If you've ever had good green tea ice cream, that is the taste of matcha.

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Started the day off with earl grey, had a few cups of constant comment, some hibiscus tea, and then finished the day off with lady grey.

hells yeah! tea time is best time. stay classy /jp/

>>8742974
Can you make proper matcha with a normal whisker or do you have to have one of these fancy ones?

Where did you get those sugoi cups from OP?

Drinking sencha for the first time. This is probably the best tea I have ever tasted.

Green tea with citrus from my local grocery store. The tea packets are individual wrapped!


Who am I kidding /jp/, how do I become a true tea aficionado? Do I need special tea brewing equipment? What teas should I start out with?

how to not burn one's finger with a Zhong is beyond me.

Here's my tea appartus as of now.

Chinese Chun Mee tea because i don't really like the taste of japanese ones.

That's supposed to be green tea.

>>8744251
I like Japanese tea but my favorite is the Chinese "Gunpowder" green tea. Very delicious.

There is a really nice tea shop about 30 minutes from my place. They've probably got at least 30 types of tea, maybe more and some lovely tea sets.

>>8744140

If you're being lazy those latte whisks work really well (make sure you use a taller mug and not a tea cup or it'll go everywhere).

This is tempting me to go to Wegmans on my break and grab a giant plastic container of Oi Ocha dark green tea and drink it while my incredibly American co workers stare at me because they think I'm drinking piss.

What's the best way to drink Earl Grey?

>>8744506
I put some honey in mine, which is weird for me because I'm a no additives guy.

>>8744605
Ooh, speaking of, if you ever find an ice cream/gelato place that sells both Earl Grey ice cream/gelato and some sort of honey-flavor ice cream/gelato, I highly recommend getting a mix of the two flavors. It's a very nice combination.

>>8744605
Ooh, speaking of, if you ever find an ice cream/gelato place that sells both Earl Grey ice cream/gelato and some sort of honey-flavor ice cream/gelato, I highly recommend getting a mix of the two flavors. It's a very nice combination.

>>8744650
Interesting, I'll keep it in mind.

I still can't find a site that sells tea within Europe.

>>8744699
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=looseleaf+tea+uk&l=1

Russian earl grey, Sucks to drink from random mugs after my teaset got destroyed. Well its double XP weekend on Modern moeware 3 so all is good and tea tastes like heaven.

>>8744702
UK != Europe you nerd

Some sencha for today.

I can use these matcha bowl thingies for normal tea just fine, right?

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>mfw I've always wanted to drink tea regularly but think it tastes fucking disgusting.

How do you guys do it? Do you just ignore that disgusting flavor?

>>8745651
>disgusting
Do you steep Lipton for half an hour or something?

>>8745651
Stop microwaving the water and using bags and milk and sugar.

>>8745659
Alright, I've never microwaved it to begin with, but I'm going to go try and make some.
Lots of miku and sugar?

>>8744140

I don't think it would turn out very well with a normal whisk. Matcha is somewhat of an expensive, very formalized cousin of loose leaf tea as a hobby.

>>8744182

They're actually part of a set that includes a very large teapot. I got it from a brick and mortar Korean tea shop that no longer exists, sadly. Except in my heart.

>>8744218

Maybe you'd be happier doing what I do, which is brew Chinese tea with Japanese and Korean teaware. A houhin is a lot more user-friendly than a gaiwan.

>>8744337

See picture

>>8744650

Try pouring a bit of a late oolong infusion on some vanilla ice cream. If the ice cream is straight from the freezer and you leave the oolong to cool a little bit, it'll freeze into a shell that'll flavour the ice cream.

>>8745651

If all you've had is cheap grocery store tea, I don't see why anyone would think tea tastes good without milk and sugar. The only place I have ever found to order tea that is really worth drinking is online. The best places keep their tea preserved in bulk in cool, sealed storage and pack their tea to order, as opposed to a grocery store that has had their tea sitting on a shelf for who-knows-how-many-years and, because of where it's being sold, was never high-quality to begin with.