Oh, I have so lost faith in you.Space Samurai wrote:Without coffee I'd kill people.
I thought of you as a high priest of TEA, but evidently, not.
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Definitely hot wine. Having a spiced/mulled wine on the stove is a habit when I'm out at the family cabin..Teasweetie wrote:You drink HOT beer and wine, huh?tenuki wrote: And beer, I drink beer.
And wine.
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Once again...Sencha Premium is in my cup...once again, outstanding!
Hot cocoa drinkers, please forgive my oversight. I could add it now, but it is a little too late since you have already voted.
I am all for smlling coffee beans...just keep them away from hot water. Bleh.
Space, I suspect you are the King of caffeine on TeaChat. I would do a poll of caffeine, how much do you consume, but you all would get into fights about how it was calculated.
Hot cocoa drinkers, please forgive my oversight. I could add it now, but it is a little too late since you have already voted.
I am all for smlling coffee beans...just keep them away from hot water. Bleh.
Space, I suspect you are the King of caffeine on TeaChat. I would do a poll of caffeine, how much do you consume, but you all would get into fights about how it was calculated.
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I will have to work on that. Unfortunately, a lot of the oldest ones are in a state of decline, but a few have trunks as thick as my wrists.caradrake wrote:Wow, Chip. Would you happen to have some pictures on hand? I would love to admire them!Chip wrote: I have some that are really getting old, 15 years old, grown as topiaries or semi bonsai.
blah blah blah SENCHA blah blah blah!!!
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Chip, you know I adore Space (see my avatar) but I would have to argue against his caffeine royalty status. Between the coffee, tea, and hot chocolate (minimal, I know) I drink I imagine I have most people over the top here. Especially when I'm not responsible for feeding parasitical beasts (which, in theory will eventually happen.)Chip wrote:Space, I suspect you are the King of caffeine on TeaChat. I would do a poll of caffeine, how much do you consume, but you all would get into fights about how it was calculated.
And ya'll know my answer. Coffee, all the way. At least two cups a day in the AM. Preferably with cream. Of course, using high quality beans and a press because coffee makers are for the weak.
That being said I own 5 ways of making coffee (2 presses, 2 makers, and an espresso maker.) But I only use the large and small press 99.9% of the time.
I'm thrilled to see all of the votes for coffee though!
As for that other caffeinated beverage, I'm having my new "usual" an English Breakfast/Earl Grey Bravo blend.
Yummy!
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Spring LiShan ...again, a nice sweet aroma, slightly astringent, well more so than normal, but well within normal tolerances.
I might have matcha a little later...
Hmmm, thinking of a way to use caffeine consumption in a poll. It is hard to do because there is no universally accepted formula for figuring how much is in each tea and how much leaches out during the brewing and at what rate.
I might have matcha a little later...
Hmmm, thinking of a way to use caffeine consumption in a poll. It is hard to do because there is no universally accepted formula for figuring how much is in each tea and how much leaches out during the brewing and at what rate.
Chip, everyone knows caffeine is measured in the following units...Chip wrote:Hmmm, thinking of a way to use caffeine consumption in a poll. It is hard to do because there is no universally accepted formula for figuring how much is in each tea and how much leaches out during the brewing and at what rate.
1) omg, get me some now I can hardly see straight
2) need more please
3) gonna have more for the helluvit
4) i'm nicely buzzed thank you
5) oopps, not gonna sleep tonight
6) I'm flying! I'm a SPACE SAMURAI!!!
7) omg, I can hardly see straight.
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ditto . . . and w/out coffee, I wouldn't be awake enough to make tea.
I would have coffee on occasion. I used to drink coffee a lot and had Kona and Blue Mountain stash in my fridge. If I go out with people and it's a good restaurant or a coffee house, I'd have a cup. If it's a Thai place, I love a Thai coffee couple of times a year.
I had Assam Harmony in the morning and then a cup of Genmaicha.
Now I have Buckingham Palace Garden Party tea in my cup. What a name! Makes me smile. It's the second cup of it. Judging by the leaf it's a rather low quality tea, too many broken, too much dust. But I love the taste and especially the finish - the special aromatic dryness of it. This was the first tea I finished the full 4oz package and reordered. Yum!
I had Assam Harmony in the morning and then a cup of Genmaicha.
Now I have Buckingham Palace Garden Party tea in my cup. What a name! Makes me smile. It's the second cup of it. Judging by the leaf it's a rather low quality tea, too many broken, too much dust. But I love the taste and especially the finish - the special aromatic dryness of it. This was the first tea I finished the full 4oz package and reordered. Yum!
It is due to personal experience. I am much more sensitive to the caffeine in coffee. With coffee, it definitely felt like more of a chemical addiction than with tea. I can wake up in the morning now without feeling comatose if I don't have tea right away. I don't need to drink a cup of tea before I talk to anyone in the morning. I don't crave tea. I don't get crabby if it's 3:00 and I haven't had tea. Heart palpatations are not a concern with tea. Neither is feeling jittery or shaky. All this was not the case with coffee. And that was from only 2 strong cups a day.Space Samurai wrote:Sure, but what would be the point?Teasweetie wrote:
You can quit coffee. I'm living proof.
I've never quite understood the duality between coffee and tea, why one needs to be declared superior, or why certain people feel coffee is bad for you.
Tea does have caffeine, but it has less. More importantly, tea containes an amino acid, theanine, that has the opposite effect from caffeine. Some people refer to it as a "calm alertness". And the caffeine in tea is water soluble, unlike the caffeine in coffee.
I just feel physiologically better drinking tea than I did when I drank coffee. I know there are a handful of other folks on teachat who have shared similar experiences.