Tea drinking thread

[Tokiko No.]

Does anyone else here enjoy drinking tea? Let's talk about our favorite types of tea, favorite ways to prepare it, and just the pleasure of tea in general.

[Yama !XanaDuh0e2 No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

I made some apple cinnamon herbal tea earlier tonight. It was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154535
I love sweetened tea, it's far from pure but it's still delicious.

[Tokiko No.]

I really enjoy drinking black tea, especially, but sometimes it tastes a bit bland when I get it from the store. I've been to a real tea house several times before and I'm wondering; how do you emulate that taste? Or do you guys just drink the fake tea, too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154561
are you using tea bags

because if so you don't know SHIT about tea

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154561
Cheap tea isn't fake, it's just low quality. Keeping track of brew temperature and time will make even a cheap tea taste pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

I got some jasmine tea (loose leaf) from an Asian supermarket, and I also ordered some Oolong from Yamamotoyama. I've been loving it. I don't have a specialized teapot or anything though, so I just put the leaves in the cup and I drink carefully.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8154599
What would you say's the best temperature for it? I usually pour it in right before it starts boiling and wait ten or so minutes.

[.accela !!jf9Wsx0P62h No.]

>MFW I see people drinking this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154626
>MFW
get out

[Anonymous No.]

I know this isn't really contributing to this board's health, but can someone tell me what type of brew I should be looking for when it comes to a good Southern style flavor? I started drinking tea less than a few months ago, so I'm quite new to this, and all the black teas that I've tried just don't have that same flavor. Are there any recommended tea guides so I can have a reliable source?

Also, how in the fuck are you supposed to brew with out the tea bags,? By letting it sit in the water?

[Anonymous No.]

I like my tea in made in Russian semover. I usually blend Ceylon and Turkish and add bergamot and clover.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8154626
That's the only way that I really know how to make tea, going to the store, grabbing a box, and adding hot water. I've never bothered to do any research about it, so I thought I'd ask /jp/ late night crew.

[.accela !!jf9Wsx0P62h No.]

>>8154647

It's fine from the box,

Red Rose is just the most foul tasting shit ever.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154613
Jesus Christ, ten minutes? Too far, too long. Boiling water is fine for black tea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154647
For black, 4-6 minutes at 190 F

Use loose leaf if you aren't a faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154647
Loose leaf is generally better than boxed.
But, fuck, some brands you stay far, far away from.
I find steeping any of the Twinning's black teas they're all the same, really for 3 minutes at about 185 F works well for me. Give that a try.

[Anonymous No.]

Are there any types of teas you find revolting?

I personally can't stand any kind of Oolong tea.

[naitoknaito No.]

Only solo coffee, the aroma of a properly brewed coffee in the morning is.....divine.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154708
Any tea I didn't make myself, generally. Basically any that comes in a bottle or is offered at a fast food joint. McDonalds sweet tea is an unforgivable abomination.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154739
>McDonald's sweet tea

If I was stranded in a desert, I would sooner drink the sweat from my balls than that swill.

[Anonymous No.]

>I just put the leaves in the cup and I drink carefully.

holy shit why didn't I think of this? Gonna try this when I'm really lazy and see how it goes. It definitely won't work for the finer teas, and green tea, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154768
Isn't Jasmine tea just Green tea but with jasmine flowers? Cause that is what I am doing for my jasmine tea. But of course, I am not too terribly knowledgeable on the subject of tea. I'm friends with a guy who really knows his tea though, so I siphon knowledge from him.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154768
Why wouldn't it work with green tea? I've never had much of an issue with it.

[Koshiro No.]

>>8154717
damn straight

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154759
I was stranded outside once for 30 hours and I was starving, I was offered McDonalds and yet, easily declined.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ - Random

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154791
That's pretty much old /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154783
When you make green tea through a metal mesh, some actually goes through, and it sort of adds to the green tea taste/experience.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154786
The food doesn't bother me. I still eat it every once in awhile.

[Anonymous No.]

I like genmaicha. I should also probably drink more tea and less other random shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Here you go, /jp/

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japanese-Tea-Pot-Tokoname-yaki-Kyusu-/160688441508?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp
;hash=item2569c708a4

If you're really poor, you can make one yourself by cutting a circular hole on the side of a tupperware, and stapling a mesh on it.

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

I can't afford such niceties as what most would consider real tea, but I recently found that chai tea mixed with a bit of almond milk is to my liking.

...Unfortunately that's about the extent to which I can feign being a refined person.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154798
I don't recall anything about a screen being mentioned, not sure why you bring it up.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8154739
I agree with you there. In general, I don't add any sugar to my tea; part of this is because I really enjoy bitter drinks, and another is that I'm diabetic. Iced teas in general just make me feel sick.

>>8154791
Tea is an important part in Japanese culture, and you're not a true otaku if you don't enjoy it. What, are you the guy that waits until all of the threads that aren't touhou and figures are deleted and then whines about /jp/ being /bun/?

>>8154807
Whenever I go to the McDonald's in my town, they give me cold food or get my order wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154822
>Tea is an important part in Japanese culture, and you're not a true otaku if you don't enjoy it.
You also have to be fluent in Japanese and own both a kimono and a katana.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154822
It's because you live in Oregon.

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8154834
Sadly enough, when I was younger my parents bought me both a katana and a kimono. It was... rather embarrassing...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154849
I hope you were a samurai for halloween, you would've easily been the coolest kid ever to get a fun sized snicker bar

[Anonymous No.]

Just finished a cup of mint tea. It's cheap compared to other teas, and tastes great.

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8154856
God no. This was back when I was 17. I lived in the middle of nowhere too, so even if I was silly enough to try to go door to door soliciting for candy, the circumstances would have prevented me from completely shaming myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154822
I wish you are just an amateur troll and not mentally handicapped like you demostrate in your posts, God heavens, do you realize what kind of bullshit are you posting....

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154862
I probably wouldn't buy one, but I'd be happy to take them if somebody offered them as presents.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154822
>Tea is an important part in Japanese culture, and you're not a true otaku if you don't enjoy it.
The sad thing is you probably really do believe that.

[Tokiko No.]

I wonder how Japanese canned tea tastes. I've never tried it.

>>8154838
Good memory.

>>8154849
My dad bought me a katana for my 13th birthday because I kept begging him to buy me one. I bought a gi for myself when I did martial arts for a while, but that's not quite a katana.

>>8154871
Other things that aren't otaku in your book: anime, manga, touhou, figures

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154870
free bath robe and meat-cutter. yeah I'd take it

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8154870
I was grateful enough at the time. What perplexes me is that I tried to be more low-key about my interests, and the word "kimono" had never so much as breached my lips.

The Katana was pretty dull though. Guess they thought I was gonna try to do something stupid with it like fight a samurai cow or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154882
>Other things that aren't otaku in your book: anime, manga, touhou, figures
Don't be a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154882
I want to know as well. I'd guess it'd taste like properly made tea. I'm guessing most of it is cold matcha in a can. Pic completely unrelated, it's not even tea. It's not even tea to the point where I (tea purist) can enjoy it as a completely separate and stand-alone beverage.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154902
Could you get over yourself already? Just say 'No fun allowed' then ignore.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154902
le mad?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154899
But if it's not sharp, you can't carve the turkey with a sword.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154915
That was the probably the first time I've called Tokiko a retard since I saw him show up, but not for lack of opportunities to do so.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154630
>>8154640
>>8154786
>>8154791
>>8154812
>>8154834
>>8154854
>>8154867
>>8154870
>>8154902
same butthurt sagefag

[「ロリあき」 No.]

HAHAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8154912
What in heaven's name would possess one to want to carve a turkey with their sword? Is this like that whole frosted butts thing...?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154925
Mainly for the novelty value. So, kind of like the frosting, I guess. The difference is that most people are still willing to eat turkeys carved unorthodoxly.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154925
For one, you'd be able to carve it. Not everyone can afford a knife you know

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154934
Sell katana, buy knife.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154934
Hello, butthurt fake-kun.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8154925
For the explicit purpose of bragging to your online friends about it. "Oh, how was your Thanksgiving?" "Awful as ever. Had to see my family and hated the entire time there." "Oh... well... I cut a turkey with a samurai sword."

[Anonymous No.]

Katanas aren't for carving turkeys.

They're for carving people.

[Tokiko No.]

What are the strangest teas you've had? I once had wheat tea and it was a pretty interesting experience. A friend of mine that was in Japan for a while brought some back for me (it was bottled, by the way). It was incredibly bitter and it tasted awful at first, but after I drank my second cup I fell completely in love with it. It has a really unique flavor that nothing else really has.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154966
I think people would be inclined to think you were crazy, or just had some very odd family traditions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154979
>Katanas aren't for carving turkeys.

Until NOW.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8154986
I can't remember the type of tea I had, but it tasted like a delicious.......tree. It MIGHT have been Japanese style green tea.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8154986
>wheat
Do you perhaps mean barley?

[Anonymous No.]

Tea is a drink for the egotistical autistics to sit there and sip while they pretend that drinking leaf juice makes them better than those who actually like to drink things with taste.

[Koshiro No.]

>>8155000

[Anonymous No.]

I prefer cohee

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155044
It's cool, we get it, you don't like tea.

[Voile's other Hermit !!YEZvwvDFX75 No.]

>>8155044
I'd prefer leaf-juice to pills to keep me calm, but that's personal preference. I don't have a preference on tea though, so I have no business here.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155044
u mad? now omg stop samefagging with ur hate in my friends thread >_<

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8155044
Your autism feels so good
so good

[Tokiko No.]

>>8155044
U FRUSTRATED U FRUSTRATED BRO U SO MAD WHY ARE YOU SO MAAAAD I CAN POST ANYTHING OTAKU RELATED THAT IS HOW IT SAYS IN THE RULES I DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR FAGGOTRY RULES Y SO MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

[‮ gubthgiN elggirW‪‪‪‮‪‪‬‬‬‬‬ No.]

chai spice tea oh man oh man

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155099
Why can't you just keep to avatarfagging rather this shit? You are at least bearable then.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

The worst part about tea is ordering it somewhere and getting lukewarm water DENNY'S I'M LOOKING AT YOU.

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8155119
Oh man, I haven't been to Denny's in forever. There's one almost close to where I live... May just have to head there in the next couple of weeks. Also, I've never ordered tea from a restaurant and been pleased with the results.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155050
Not quite sure what the message of the pic is.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155378
He's pointing out that >>8155000 got sick trips.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155385
Ah, I see. I thought it had to do with the tree-tasting tea.

[Anonymous No.]

It is my dream to start a cold tea revolution in North America.

- Start a local tea brewery
- Sell it in bottles to grocery stores
- Sell it in gyms as a health supplement
- Shit goes on CNN
- "Better than acai berries"
- CocaCola buys me out

Americans drink green tea instead of coke. Too bad Americans can't drink anything without sugar or cream. When Europeans first started drinking coffee, they used atrocious amounts of sugar.

[Tokiko No.]

>>8155461
Coke will either water down your drink or add sugar or artificial flavors to it. Plus, being independent is a marketable factor now.

I'd pay $1 a can from a vending machine, I think. More than that is pushing it.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155461
I like cream in my tea and coffee. Granted, I like it without too...

[KING OF /jp/ !2K23m85knQ No.]

>mwf I woke up at 6:30 am , and had 1 coffees and 2 teas till 10:am

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155543

Okay if you're an American it's understandable. But green tea + sugar is fucking terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155570
tell that to Lipton

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155570
Agreed, to an extent. Jasmine tea acquires a unique pleasantness when you add cream and sugar. Naturally, this does not apply to straight green tea. Sweetened green tea is pure devilry, and it's usually incredibly weak to boot.

[quietjack !!Zkvl4zKDvFu No.]

>>8155607
I had lipton green tea once. It tasted like rain water if you bottled it with cigarette butts and left it in the sun for a week to make sure the flavor of the butts soaked in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8155640

Real oyatsu = wagashi + tea. This works well as a good combination because tea counteracts the sweetness and quenches your thirst better than just water.

I can never understand why people would want to drink tea as a dessert.

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>8155651
>counteracts the sweetness
I think of it in the reverse, that wagashi's sweetness counteracts the bitterness if the tea, but my experience with that is chado koicha, which is an intense flavor.

[Tokiko No.]

I just had a cup of Lipton's green tea. It was very nice.

Tea doesn't have as much caffeine as coffee, but I think it tastes much better.

[Anonymous No.]

You know, some of the bag tea isn't half bad. It's just that cheap tea bags is where they dump all the low-quality leaves.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish i could do the same magic the guys do at that chinese restaurant over here. The tea there is delicious and i even get those spicy japanese cookies or something with it (even though its a chinese restaurant).

How do you usually make your tea ?

[Anonymous No.]

My grandma used to make jasmine tea. I wonder if I could do that too.