A new startup, Zest, is specializing in making high caffeine tea blends. Some of their black teas have more caffeine than coffee.
http://www.getzesttea.com/#!about/c1se
Jun 24th, '13, 20:15
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Re: Startup Specializes In High Caffeine Blends Of Tea
Interesting. Similar concept as an energy drink, but applied to tea. I'd rather have mate than a flavored tea though. My personal opinion
Jun 26th, '13, 11:30
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Re: Startup Specializes In High Caffeine Blends Of Tea
Terrifying. I can only assume that they are treated with added caffeine, given that all the flavor adulterants are not caffeinated. Then again, I've heard that plantation tea tends to have higher caffeine for some reason. Just brew good tea stronger, man.
Re: Startup Specializes In High Caffeine Blends Of Tea
"so we set out to find quality energizing tea. Unfortunately, they didn't exist."
Re: Startup Specializes In High Caffeine Blends Of Tea
I emailed them and asked them how they got the higher caffeine content:
I guess I can just drink a second cup, or do what I do now when I need an extra lift and just use more tea in a tall beer mug with more water."We add a highly caffeinated tea extract to the blend in a very precise manner. "
Jun 26th, '13, 20:14
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Re: Startup Specializes In High Caffeine Blends Of Tea
... that just sounds really scary. I just imagine people ODing on the caffeine due to misapplied caffeine extract.
Just too many things to go wrong ...
Just too many things to go wrong ...