Saturday TeaDay 5/1/10 Water your source?

[iannon]

i use a countertop filter from crystalquest. has a flouride filter on it too along with the regular carbon filter and such but is not reverse osmosis so i do keep some minerals

[Chip]

Drinking a bit of sheng puerh this morning. My sencha supply is getting dangerously low, gotta make it stretch out until the shincha starts arriving! The sheng is actually a nice change of pace this morning.

The sencha supply here has gone beyond being dangerously low! Began the TD with the sencha sample that was under the car seat for 11 months! Crazy! But it was sencha. Now it is Golden Week in Japan, so not sure what will happen before May 6th. Still, SweeTea did not complain, meanwhile Shincha the kitty and Pyrit visited the TeaTable today.

[Chip]

I guess I should have made multiple options for the poll today. Having a 250' well and great tasting water, but very hard water ...

... til 16 months ago began using the GraviTea by our host Adagio. This thing literally changed my life. I used to have to descale everything every week or stalagmites would start forming. The water tasted nice and sweet, but argh, the scale.

16 months later, I have not had to descale since! I never realized how much of a chore it was to descale everything til I did not have to do it. Whew!

I never tried a side by side taste comparison with tea, but the tea tasted good before and after the change over, so whatever ...

[debunix]

Unfiltered tap water. Occasionally at work I use bottled water, because the water cooler also has a hot water tap that speeds things up when I'm in a screaming hurry, and I have not noticed any difference.

Of course, when I'm in a screaming hurry is not the best time to try to notice differences.

[geeber1]

Well water for me. I even take it to work to make my tea.

Nilgiri Neela in my cup this morning.

[leiche2]

Brita pitcher, here. The tap water's fine unfiltered, just a little too chlorine-y for my preference.

Black Dragon oolong from Tao of Tea on this fine Saturday afternoon.

[gingkoseto]

Tap water, unfiltered. We are lucky to have tap water that tastes better than most "mineral spring water" sold in bottles.

[Rithmomachy]

I voted for filtered tap, because that's what I use at home (and I'm at home today!), but at work I use bottled water from the water cooler.

[entropyembrace]

Today I´m drinking Special Roast Dong Ding from Floating Leaves Tea...one of the ones I wished I ordered more than 2 oz of

[Chip]

Today I´m drinking Special Roast Dong Ding from Floating Leaves Tea...one of the ones I wished I ordered more than 2 oz of

But you know if you did, it wouldn't be as good! Seems to happen all the time.

Long Jing from TeaSpring earlier with Mrs. Chip. And lastly some Maestro Da Hong Pao from of course, Adagio.

[Skippyandjif]

I just use tap water-- with going back and forth between the dorm, my mom's house, and my dad's apartment all the time, a filter or series of filters would be too much work. I do use bottled water at my mom's house because the water in her town is funky-smelling.

Earl Grey to begin the TeaDay, followed by three cups of pu-erh. Ending the TeaDay with...? Maybe a green or a tisane?

[putibungsu]

We drink filtered water at home -no particular reason just a habit- so I always use filtered water for my tea.

Organic gyokuro Gokou from Yuuki-Cha this afternoon. Maybe some pu-erh or hojicha to end the TeaDay.

[debunix]

Lots of tap-water teas today, small infusions of every kind of tea: Sencha shin-ryoku from Den's; a very light pouchong from TenRen; organic Dragon's Well from Wing Hop Fung; a dark pouchong from Chado; and some Golden Needles Menghai shu puerh from Yunnan Sourcing.

(that looks like an insane amount of tea but really it wasn't, when taken little bit here and little bit there), only filled the kettle twice....

[brad4419]

unfiltered tap. We have very good water here, it tastes much better than bottled tap water... oh I mean bottled natural mountain spring water

oolong ben shan today