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Originally Posted by maianhvk
I'm having this:
it tastes worse than I imagined  |
Long time ago (read: many years, as in 10-12 years), my brother told me that Ahmad's English Breakfast loose tea is a very good tea and I should try it one day. About half way between then and now I tried it and it was the first time I felt a difference between tea bags and loose tea. (Still a tea bag person, I am.) Since then I was used to buy beautiful tins of the tea in tea bags as gifts/souvenirs for my parents and their friends, they don't brew loose teas, so tea bags in the only option and surely it cannot be too different from the loose tea I liked. The tea is quite expensive, but I usually buy a few tins in TKMaxx for 1/2 price and last summer I decided to try the tea myself. Along the lines like I sort of earned the privilege to try those exquisite Ahmad English Breakfast Tea (in bags).
One of the worst tea in tea bags I have ever drunk
I could not finish the tin
So, I think I can imagine how bad it is.
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Originally Posted by beppe
I am going to try that Lapacho thing.
astra, are you sure that this is a good thing? I'll tell if it is any good. Incas did not do a great show anyhow.
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The process, as you describe it, of brewing the
tisane is too sophisticated for me
I am a simple man.
I put 1 heaped tea spoon (really heaped, because the bark is not dense, so the tea spoon looks funny, it almost disappears under the heap of bark shavings
) into the tea stainer, pour just boiled water and leave to steep it for 12-15 minutes. Then I drink the
tisane, or in a peasant language, tea
Joking aside, it is a simple brewing, like any other herb such as camomile etc.
A full tea spoon of the shavings per cup, 100C water, steep for 10-15 minutes.
Look at the last picture below
Just finished a cup of delicious Assam Harmutty.
The next cup is going to be..........Taylors of Harrogate's Ceylon tea.