tea stock
Posted: Jun 10th, '11, 05:05
at any given time, how many different types of tea do you all keep? how many types have you to choose from when wanting to brew up some tea?
bob wrote:I also like to have a large selection. I don't like to drink the same tea all day, unless it would be a very very special one.
Currently I have (ordered by quantity):
- a lot of Chinese oolong
- some black (red) tea
- some cooked puerh
- a bag of weird black bean tea from Japan
- a few samples of young raw puerh
- a bit of Japanese sencha
- a bit of Chinese Dragon pearls
- a bit of yerba mate
- 2 teabags of authentic Coca tea, a gift from a friend who went to Columbia
I mostly drink oolongs and occasionally shu puerh or some green tea (I just ran out of Dragon Well).
Are you perhaps familiar with this tea made of black beans? I bought it out of curiosity in Yokohama a few years ago, but I don't know how to brew it. It looks like a pyramidal teabag, filled with 20 g of roasted black beans. I tried brewing it once, but it was not very tasty. The cooked beans were actually better...
m147 wrote:bob wrote:I also like to have a large selection. I don't like to drink the same tea all day, unless it would be a very very special one.
Currently I have (ordered by quantity):
- a lot of Chinese oolong
- some black (red) tea
- some cooked puerh
- a bag of weird black bean tea from Japan
- a few samples of young raw puerh
- a bit of Japanese sencha
- a bit of Chinese Dragon pearls
- a bit of yerba mate
- 2 teabags of authentic Coca tea, a gift from a friend who went to Columbia
I mostly drink oolongs and occasionally shu puerh or some green tea (I just ran out of Dragon Well).
Are you perhaps familiar with this tea made of black beans? I bought it out of curiosity in Yokohama a few years ago, but I don't know how to brew it. It looks like a pyramidal teabag, filled with 20 g of roasted black beans. I tried brewing it once, but it was not very tasty. The cooked beans were actually better...
the black bean tea, is most likely mugicha, which is a barley tea. so technically it is not a 'tea'. it is popular here in the summer time especially with cold soba noodles. i like mugicha, but i do have to say it takes some getting used to. you can search google on how to brew mugicha, maybe that will help get a better taste from it. i have only bought prepared bottled mugicha.