Jun 23rd, '09, 21:49
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by woozl » Jun 23rd, '09, 21:49
It's all about the leaf.
Crappy tea in fab. xing is CRAPPY.
Good leaf, brewed in styro, will be better than OK.
“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I ca’n’t take more.”
“You mean you ca’n’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
Jun 24th, '09, 01:43
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by wyardley » Jun 24th, '09, 01:43
woozl wrote:It's all about the leaf.
Crappy tea in fab. xing is CRAPPY.
Good leaf, brewed in styro, will be better than OK.
That's only true to a point. Really great teas will usually shine through, but I have brewed some pretty good quality tea grandpa style in styrofoam, with coffee shop water, and usually it tastes average at best. And while not-so-good tea may not ever taste great, brewing it with good water and backing off on temperature a bit can often make it taste surprisingly good.
Jun 24th, '09, 05:57
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by clareandromeda » Jun 24th, '09, 05:57
I've found that drinking out of metal (a thermos) completely ruins tea.
Jun 24th, '09, 10:04
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by Oni » Jun 24th, '09, 10:04
And do not heat your water in cheap plastic kettle, that also ruins the tea.
Jun 24th, '09, 12:13
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by Geekgirl » Jun 24th, '09, 12:13
clareandromeda wrote:I've found that drinking out of metal (a thermos) completely ruins tea.
I take my iced tea in stainless steel all the time. Have never noticed a problem.
Jun 24th, '09, 14:35
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by clareandromeda » Jun 24th, '09, 14:35
Hot tea that is
And my fancy expensive ones I never ice. I'm going to have to get some sort of ceramic travel cup at some point.. Ingesting 3 cups of tea before I go to work is time consuming.
Jun 24th, '09, 21:51
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by beachape » Jun 24th, '09, 21:51
Yeah making tea in a metal thermos is tricky. I only use them for black/oolong because they impart too much flavor to greens. Trick is to add a little cold water to stop/slow down the brewing process after a couple minutes. Otherwise the tea just cooks in there.
Jun 25th, '09, 01:12
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by Oni » Jun 25th, '09, 01:12
Green tea after 20 minutes starts to oxidize, if you leave a brewed cup of sencha for an hour in it will turn from green to yellow, and it will loose the flavour, I think the same thing happenes in a thermos, but I had great results with ice tea in a thermos, the results are great, make ice sencha by adding ice, once it thaws 80 %, put it in a thermos, and serve, the tea will stay cool and fresh all day long.
Jun 25th, '09, 07:14
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by clareandromeda » Jun 25th, '09, 07:14
does the tea need to be brewed in hot water before I ice it?
Jun 25th, '09, 07:32
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by Oni » Jun 25th, '09, 07:32
There are 3 methods listed by
www.hibiki-an.com , for ice tea brewing, one is brewing by ice, that mean put the required amount of ice on the dry leaves and wait for for it to thaw, the other method is to put cold water on leaves and wait a few hours, and brew a hot and a bit stronger tea and pour it over a lot of ice.
Jun 25th, '09, 07:52
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by clareandromeda » Jun 25th, '09, 07:52
Thanks!
