Tea Thread!

[Anonymous No.]

What's /jp/'s favourite tea? Do you like Japanese teas? Are you drinking some now?

I'm drinking peach-flavored black tea now, it's pretty good, but I brewed it too long so it ended up a bit bitter.

[Anonymous No.]

I like all kinds of teas. I prefer Japanese green tea to chinese green tea because it has a much lighter, sweet flavor. I usually drink sushi bar style green tea. Also, brewing teas too long generally isn't what makes them bitter, it could be you had the water a bit too hot.

[Anonymous No.]

I only drink Dr. Pepper.

Sorry Reimu, you just don't compare.

[Anonymous No.]

I generally prefer Chinese Green Tea after meals, but I also really enjoy Earl Grey Vanilla Chai, Black Tea (sometimes), Red Tea, and Chamomile when I'm about to go to sleep.

[Anonymous No.]

I drink black tea when trying to lost some bodyfat but that is like every 3 months anyway and just when I'm bored. Since is a hassle to make.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768241
Might be! Thanks for the tip. The package recommends a temperature of 97 celsius (207 F), and I let the water cool a bit after boiling, so I thought it'd be okay. I have some bad habits apparently, as my first brews are often somewhat bitter...

[Anonymous No.]

Is it the same faggot that keeps making these Japan threads?

[Anonymous No.]

I like twinnings English and Irish black tea it is nice and strong. I dont know where I can get authentic japanese green tea so I end up just getting Salada green tea

[Anonymous No.]

My favourite from Japanese teas is genmaicha. That ample, soft flavour is especially great on a cold winter's day. I also once got to taste one that tasted like seaweed, which was pretty interesting, but I don't think I'd drink that on a daily basis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768252
I've seen tea threads go fairly well before, but the sudden influx of Japan threads makes me suspicious.

[Stalker of Omsk No.]

I usually have to ask my parents to buy something else than tea...

So what's /jp/ favourite juice? Does /jp/ prefer vegetable juices or fruit ones?

[Anonymous No.]

PG Tips

Never tried any Japanese teas.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768252
I don't make threads very often, maybe once in a few months, so I don't think you're talking about the same person. I think tea is related enough, though. It's not like the Japanese language threads are deleted either, despite not being strictly otaku.

But if you don't like it, you can always hide the thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768270
Welch's concord grape juice. White grape juice is disgusting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768270
Vegetable Juice all the way.
Orange Juice is really good too though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768246
You can always just get a water boiler to your room along with the tea, makes it a lot less of a hassle.

>>7768251
At least where I live, there are some small, nice shops that specialise in tea. The tea you can get at these places is usually way better than normal ones, especially if you compare it with big brands like Twinings or Lipton. But they usually sell the leaves loose instead of in bags, which can be a problem depending on your preferences.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768309
I am open to both bag and loose leaf. I actually have a ceramic tea pot that I want to get more use out of.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768294
>Orange Juice is really good too though.

As having a pleasant flavor?
Yes.

Good as healthy?
No.

>>7768309
Still a pain to do, the only reason for me to drink it is because it makes you feel full for a while but since drinking three glasses of water is faster, I just do that.

Drinking tea makes me feel classy and calm my paranoid tho.

[Anonymous No.]

Green: Kukicha
Black: Darjeeling mixed up with a little bit Lapsang Souchong (smoke tea)
Else: Peppermint

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768309

[Anonymous No.]

The only tea I've been having lately is this crappy green tea that comes in teabags. Better than nothing I suppose, seeing as I'm broke right now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768354
Interesting, I have never heard of smoke tea before.

>>7768373
Are you reusing teabags? Often you can get several tasty cups from just one. Great way to save money for us poorfags.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm gonna live in Japan for a while, but I don't know shit about green tea (unlike with.black tea, I've only drank cheap stuff before).
Is there any sort you would recommend?

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ related bcuz 2hus drink tea

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768354
Peppermint tea sounds delicious. I'll go find some of that when the moon and stars are right.

In the meanwhile, I'm drinking Russian earl grey. Surprisingly sweet for being from the same people who made the Lada and Kalashnikov.

[Anonymous No.]

BEVERAGES AREN'T OTAKU CULTURE GOD MOD WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING THIS MY AUTISM CANT HANDLE IT

>>>/ck/

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768419
No, I haven't. Thought about doing it a few times but decided not to, kept thinking that if I were to use the bags more than once each subsequent cup of tea would lose it's flavor. Then again, teabags aren't in short supply in my household. There's an entire cupboard full of tea that no one has touched in ages until I started drinking tea a few months ago, and since I'm the only one here that drinks tea my supply isn't going to run out anytime soon. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try reusing the bags.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768422
For Japanese, different kinds of sencha. Matcha. Genmaicha, which was mentioned before. For Chinese, gunpowder.

I'm still a beginner at green teas myself, but these should get you started.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768448
>>7768458
Haters gonna hide.

[Anonymous No.]

So why don't you guys brew Kombuca mushroom tea?
Huh? Too scared?

>>7768484
Stop that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768449
I'd love some Russian earl grey myself, the one I tasted once was delicious. But I've only found it in an earl grey pack that contains many others I didn't like as well. Can you recommend any brands or such?

>>7768461
I find that the second brew is often even better than the first one. Teas differ in how many cups you can get from one bag, but two or three should be good for every kind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768484
Fuck you.

I post in Tea threads, but catchphrase spouting faggots like you should stay out and go be asphyxiated by a dildo down the throat.

[PRINNY !nLFbzB/0pw No.]

I really enjoy Earl Grey tea. Arizona Green Tea is also pretty good as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768503
I buy this pack. Very tasty, but don't care for the other kinds, and by now I'm almost out of the Russian tea. It'd be better to find a complete pack/someone who sells loose Russian earl grey.

["iluvOP !ge9bznqAsg No.]

Im not drinking tea right now, but I guess I can change that. My favourite ones are Earl grey and various green tea. but if I would have to choose a single favourite, russian earl grey takes the prize. The taste is just so sweet~

[Anonymous No.]

Do you drink tea with food or desserts, or after eating?

I usually drink it alone, but sometimes I like to eat cookies on the side.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768544
>Arizona Green Tea

Those carbs and sodium amount.
How the fuck is possible to fuck tea that badly?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768548
>>7768564
I'm totally lusting for Russian Earl Grey now, and I have none... ;_;

[w­tH !HELLB/V.96 No.]

drinking some normal as HELL iced tea in my Micky mouse cup
>>7768576
WHILE eating dinner

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768576
Mostly by itself, sometimes with sweets. I rarely drink it with a meal. Corned beef and green tea don't seem to go together.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768576
I usually have a cup of tea in the morning after I let my dog out when I wake up at 5am, and I'll have another cup before I go to bed at 10pm.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768593
Holy fuck I have the same cup.

[Anonymous No.]

Sorry, but I'll have to borrow this post for a second. As for the thread, I only drink Jasmine tea. Drank it when I was little and will continue to drink it until I'm old and totally losing my hip.

[動かない大図書館 !PatchyC0Ag No.]

>>7768498
I've had it. Not too dreadful, but I wouldn't drink it habitually.

I drink sencha and mugicha throughout the day at home, koucha only if I go to a fast food restaurant. In the evening I only drink mugicha or else I won't be able to sleep.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7768576
During danmaku. A few drinks before/after a stage makes you 30% more likely to dodge a bullet, yano.

[Anonymous No.]

A bit of a dilemma here, /jp/. I can't decide if I want to order regular genmaicha or genmaicha with matcha. I've been ordering and drinking it with matcha for about a year now, maybe it's time for a change.

[Anonymous No.]

I buy a pound of loose leaf tea at teavana every few months.

Usually only get earl grey and matevana.

I switch from tea to beer during the summer because it gets too fucking hot here to drink hot tea and I'm not wasting loose leaf on making iced tea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773143
You should check out your local asian marketplace. They usually have large cheap amounts of tea, both loose and bagged which you can use to make iced tea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773162
Hmm I will look into that. I live in the middle of nowhere so even going to teavana is a bit of a journey but I'll have to keep my eyes open.

[Anonymous No.]

How much sugar do you all like to put in your tea? Do you like it plain?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773183
A few years ago I used to put honey/cream/milk/brown sugar/cinnamon in chai or earl grey, all the time, but then I started to just have the chai by itself, steeped as strong as could possibly get it to be, since I found that I really like the raw spiciness more than anything else. When I started to make huge amounts of tea daily it got to be too much of a pain in the ass to adds things to it too, not to mention I can't stand letting a sweetened/creamed tea get cold, but with a regular tea I don't mind it being room-temp. Or on a hot day I'll just put the tea in the fridge for iced tea. Even though it seems most people sweeten up their iced tea I don't, namely because sugars dry out your mouth and that kind of defeats the purpose of it being quenching.

Some types of tea (such as green or chamomile) I don't ever put anything in. I've also experimented with putting honey/milk in plum tea as well, but I find nothing really beats earl grey, english/irish breakfast or chai for fixing up English-style.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773183
>putting sugar in tea

[Anonymous No.]

Sometimes I run out of tea, so I end up drinking boiled water.

[None !GoodGIr1f2 No.]

Jasmine tea is my favorite tea. But I like green tea and earl gray from time to time. Iced tea is good in the heat of the summer too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7768252
>/jp/
>yelling about japan threads
whatisthisidonteven
on a side not i just like plain old green tea. cold or hot it sooths the soul

[Anonymous No.]

I drink tea straight.
I drink it to get away from all the crap loaded with sugar and stuff and I like its unsweetened taste.

I guess I can understand if you're drinking a fruity kind of tea, but again, I drink tea to get away from those kind of things.

Earl Grey Black and Green represent.
I want to try oolong but the market here doesn't sell it.
They also don't sell loose tea to boil, so I can't try that either.

[Anonymous No.]

Cheap mint teabags, 3 times a day.

[None !GoodGIr1f2 No.]

>>7773239
Still like that old time green tea bowl
Hot or cold it just soothes the soul
I reminisce about the days of old
With that old time green tea bowl

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>7773239
How do people STILL not understand that /jp/ is not in fact about Japan?

Anyways, had some Earl Grey today, it was okay but was the second steeping so nothing special. I don't drink much tea in the summer anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773264
>/jp/
>implying its not short for japan
>implying otaku culture isnt a subspecies of the greater japanese vehicle
>implying you didnt rage at that though

[Anonymous No.]

English breakfast tea, with or without milk
Jasmine tea
Japanese green tea
Chrysanthemum tea
Sometimes cheap canned Oolong tea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773275
/jp/ is clearly short for otaku culture.

[Anonymous No.]

I recently sent for an order from Hojo teas, which I had heard an awful lot about. While needing to email the man was a touch more than daunting, I'll say the quality makes it well worth the effort. His prices are alright, maybe not for europe though as it ships from Nippon.

But comparing simular blends from him against my Teavanna shipment, well teavanna was simply blown away. They hardly seemed a step up from bagged, and I was having difficulty in justifying farther purchases. But after this, I see how much quality truly matters in tea.

My order was a very aged Oolong which had a wonderful slightly, ever so slightly sweet taste to it, that I prize in an Oolong tea. A Pu-reh which was very sweet, it is definitely a desert tea, the taste is heavenly, and I will be buying more (lao Hei Zhai Raw Pu-reh for the curious).
A Lapsong sochong blend which lacked the "bite" I noticed in several bagged varieties. Much smoother than I had become accustomed to in a lapsong blend, but also a much "deeper" flavor I again will be buying more. A Formosa blend, which was just a touch underwhelming, I'll try again in a different clay with better water and see what happens. It did taste rather well, but I feel like I didn't get all of the flavor unlocked from the leaves.

As is pretty obvious, I'm mostly a black drinker, and do enjoy the occasional Oolong with food.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773279
LOL
>implying the internet acronym for japanese websites isnt jp
>still denies it means japan
HAHAHA OH WOW

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773298
>has no arguement but to call me autistic
>in reality is having a spaz attack as we speak
anything else?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773293
It's like you're literally autistic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773222
same. especially those nights where more than anything else I'm just trying to warm up. also that time i was tripping hard and couldn't figure out how to make tea

[Mush !lYtRBoeK.2 No.]

>>7773301
Oh the irony.

[Anonymous No.]

Barley tea.

[Anonymous No.]

My favorite is green tea. English breakfast tea is second, but sometimes it's heavier than what I want.

I don't drink enough to have any particular favorite brands.

[Anonymous No.]

I like drinking green tea. At the sushi restaurants where their green tea is free, I would drink buckets of them. But somehow I just can't get that same taste on the common off-the-shelf green teabags. The color of their green tea is lighter and greener as well. Stuff I buy are either yellow or brown like shit.
I guess that's only natural since I drink cheap lipton green tea and sometimes bottled cold pokka. It helps to fill my stomach too, great for a poorfag like me hoping to lose weight.

[Anonymous No.]

Guess what I found today folks! (゜∀゜)

Mine is loose tea in a bag opposed to the picture though. I also saw pyramid tea bags with this variety of tea in the shop.

Just wanted to inform you folks that this actually exists, and in 3 different kinds of packages at that. You can probably find it in your country too, fellow /jp/ers that want this tea! There's hope!

I'm so brewing this now!

[b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc No.]

>>7773499
Appreciation

[Anonymous No.]

I used to drink mostly matcha, but after spending a month going to butler cafes when I was in Japan I got into black tea. Prince of Whales is pretty good and I've been liking Lady Gray lately too.

This Paris blend is my favorite right now though: http://www.harney.com/Paris-Tea/products/236/

It tastes like blueberry scones.

Also mugicha is delicious when it's hot. Somehow it still tastes cold even when it's at room temperature.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776095
Congratulations. Savor your wonderful Russian fruityness.

Mine just ran out, so I'm actually pulling used bags of it out of the trash.

[Anonymous of Croatia !na1byG1GU. No.]

I'll be totally honest.

I tried your Earl Grays and Milk Teas and whatnot.

While Earl Gray is a really good tea, it has nice taste and everything. It's just too expensive here. I can buy like 2 to 4 times as much of local tea for the price.

So I'll continue to drink Chamomile, Rose Hip, Indian, Mint, Fruit etc...

I mean
Earl Gray is like 18,99 Kn
Local Teas are like 7,99 Kn

Here in the search for this I discovered a local tea maker sells earl gray for like 8,99 Kn I need to try that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773217
I regularly put Honey and Freshly squeezed lemon in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776232
Freshly squeezed lemon is wonderful, but I feel awful for wasting the whole fruit just for the juice. And if you slice it up to get juice for many cups, the rest of the fruit dries up or gets bad otherwise.

Please educate me as to how it's done better if you can.

[Anonymous No.]

I am drinking Ahmad when I can, it's pretty much the only real Earl Grey you can buy here in mid Europe for a reasonable price. Sister studies in Scotland so she sometimes brings Earl Grey that isn't in teabags - she brought Yorkshire once, shit was incredibly cash once I realized I am supposed to drink with milk. In tearooms I mostly drink Roibos since it's cheap, but mate or tuareg help a lot when I want some activity out of myself. Cofee throws me off sometimes, but these powereas are never a miss.

[Anonymous No.]

I usually drink green or black tea with 2 or 3 bags of artificial sweetener (asparmate), since I'm not too picky and dislike bitter stuff.
I only drink tea because of caffeine and to have something to warm me up.

[Anonymous No.]

Just woke up and about to take a shower. Boiling some water for some pu-erh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776257
Freeze the lemon, take a grinder, grind the whole lemon to small pieces. Freeze them again. Add to tea later like you would add sugar.

Not like grinder that thing that has small holes, and you like place stuff on it and move it up and down and it sort of creates little pieces of it. You know like how you take a block of cheese and then use that thing to basically spread that block of cheese over the whole pizza. I'm sorry I'm European I have no idea whats it called in english.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776290
I'm European too, and I think I understand. This was a very valuable tip, thanks a lot!

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776257
Drink a lot of tea, one half should be enough for a day of active tea-ing, pu the other one into the fridge and use it the next day. The downside is that it may be really agressive on someone's throat to drink so much lemon and you neck starts actually hurting because of it. I got used to this, though.

If you don't want to drink it that much, cut it in slices. Literarilly cut off the cap and put one or two slices in it. It's not freshly squeezed.

You can also squeeze it off the juice and keep the juice in the fridge but then it might not taste the same. Sometimes it still feels fresh after two days, though.

Also never put the juice/slice in the tea before the tea diffused, it seems to make the tea quality considerably worse.

[Anonymous No.]

I like Chinese green teas, dragonwell is my favorite. My favorite black teas come from India.

I have never tried a Japanese tea, what do you all recommend?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776285
Tea isn't better if you brew it correctly. Try shorter seeping times and a lower water temperature.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776290
It's called a grater.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776296
Also if you simply mix that frozen lemon with water (maybe add some frozen orange too if it suites your tastes) you get a unbelievably good lemonade!

I know my mom still does make lemonade like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776306
Right yes!

>>7776302
Most early tea drinkers (or hell even old ones in countries that don't have a real tea culture) don't realize that tea as in green,white,black etc... gets bitter over time. Green espeically since it requires like 55~60°c not 100°c.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776308
Lemonade is one of the best things western culture ever brought to the world. If you didn't have it as a kid and didn't learn from someone to make it yourself, your parent's didn't love you or weren't loved themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776301
>My favorite black teas come from India.
Any recommendations? I'd like to get into Indian tea.

For Japanese teas, there was one post that answered to a similar question before (restricted to green teas, but that seems to be Japan's specialty anyway): >>7768470

[Anonymous No.]

Why is it that the western world drink Black tea while Asia drink Green.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776342
I might be wrong, but I think it's because India produces black tea and India used to be an English colony.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7773222

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776342
>Asia drink Green
It's more Japan than Asia.

Also, the west loves caffeine, black has more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776342
Because the Chinese see black tea as inferior to green tea and saw the English and European traders as suckers to unload all that black tea on

[Anonymous No.]

I like my milk tea with Boba.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776342
Two main reasons are where the tea was grown, and how fresh it was. Black was seen as an odd trend way back when. Fermenting it was a side effect of it being stored for a long period of time.

And yes, tea gets bitter if you let it sit for 15 minutes or so. Try to take the leaves/bag out within five.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776390
not a fan myself.
I prefer my tea hot and without dairy.

Though a touch of white honey can do wonders.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7776390
I tried Boba tea awhile ago from a shitty tea place.

It tasted like water.

[Anonymous No.]

So I found out that there's an asian market nearby, like seriously, maybe half a mile at most.
Loose green tea?
Why yes, thank you.
And cheap rice and soy sauce, what a godsend over the damn fred meyers.

I only realized I didn't have a teapot to brew it in when I got home. ;_;