What is in your cup?

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by astra

All I can do it shake my head. You ladies DRINK tea.

It replaced soft drinks for me and I am really, really bored at work.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I kind of want to take advantage of the 350 sale, but I'm scared I'll miss the extra inch.

I would, to the point of it being unbearable.
Forget about the sale price. You pay once. You use it daily.

[astra]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

It replaced soft drinks for me and I am really, really bored at work.

Read a book

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

I tend to see it the other way. I got the 650 as the most obvious replacement for the 505 (with a brief flirtation with the fatally flawed 600 inbetween) and I love it.

I have never owned a 350, but a friend does and, whilst it is also very good, I personally would miss that extra inch. Having said that, the 350 is better for slipping into your pocket and is a fair bit cheaper.

HEY!!!



what happened on your business trip?

Originally Posted by desertblues

Thanks. I see that I drink very little compared to you. Perhaps with tea, one drinks more.

I try to always have some liquid going, typically it is either sparkling mineral water or iced green tea. growing up as a backpacker in the Southwest and then joining the Army right out of school I kind of trained myself to not drink very much which is NOT good for you! I try to get to the point where

Spoiler:

my urine is barely visible in water

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by astra

Read a book

I can't bring my Kindle to work and I just don't like reading a DTB at this point in time.

Don't ask, rules are rules.

[astra]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I try to get to the point where

Spoiler:

my urine is barely visible in water

Right attitude

[astra]

Originally Posted by beppe

Pleasant after taste.
Overall Sencha is better. For me at least. which means that I will have to finish this gunpowder before buying more green tea, as it is quite nice anyhow.

After 24 samples of green teas, 9 of which where from China, 9 from other origin and the rest from Japan I realised that Japanese green teas are quite different from the rest. almost, like a different type of tea.
Green teas from China and from other origin were similar, but a few Chinese green teas were outstanding (for my palate of course).
Accordingly to this article Bi Luo Chun tea is ranked first among Chinese green tea. I didn't think it was any different from other green teas, although I will give it another chance by ordering it from another source. As far as I understand each green tea may have different levels of quality. Sencha has 8? the price is quite different too
However, as I said I loved two other Chinese green teas. One of them is ranked number two in the article mentioned above. It is called Dragon Well on NBTea, or Longjing tea here. Another is White Monkey Tea.
In my opinion they are almost as different from other green teas as Japanese green teas are different from all others
It might be worth to investigate for you


Btw., since you know about NBTea and like straight Rooibos, you might like or even love Lapacho



A cup of Lapacho, before I go to bed in a few.

[beppe]

BTW. after I had that gunpowder after lunch to day, about an hour after, i felt a nice tingling in my hands. So what? well I sort of remember old sensations ... than I had to go and get my train, and was very pleasantly surprised by my elastic steps, a new energy, like I felt quite well. Is gunpowder tea stimulating ?

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

It replaced soft drinks for me and I am really, really bored at work.

I still want your job.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by astra

After 24 samples of green teas, 9 of which where from China, 9 from other origin and the rest from Japan I realised that Japanese green teas are quite different from the rest. almost, like a different type of tea.
Green teas from China and from other origin were similar, but a few Chinese green teas were outstanding (for my palate of course).
Accordingly to this article Bi Luo Chun tea is ranked first among Chinese green tea. I didn't think it was any different from other green teas, although I will give it another chance by ordering it from another source. As far as I understand each green tea may have different levels of quality. Sencha has 8? the price is quite different too
However, as I said I loved two other Chinese green teas. One of them is ranked number two in the article mentioned above. It is called Dragon Well on NBTea, or Longjing tea here. Another is White Monkey Tea.
In my opinion they are almost as different from other green teas as Japanese green teas are different from all others
It might be worth to investigate for you


Btw., since you know about NBTea and like straight Rooibos, you might like or even love Lapacho



A cup of Lapacho, before I go to bed in a few.

how can I thank you for your continuous guidance and support?
I will get Lapacho of course. I am sure that in Milano my pusher has it. I am finding the green teas quite interesting. I have been very surprised by a latent effect of the gunpowder I had to day, to be verified thursday when I will go back to the office. Alas I have to stay home tomorrow and wednesday, to mind my business and to have good time. Actually tomorrow I have the plumbers and I take the day off wednesday out of pure irresponsibility. Alas is because I cannot check the stimulating properties of gunpowder before Thursady.

[astra]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I find that the guides are always written for teeny tiny cups. I use a huge stein. The numbers never match up!

If it is a noname site, I pester them until they divulge their secrets
I asked NBTea about their 1 tea spoon for a mug:

Our understanding of mug size is 250-300ml.

Best wishes
Chrissie

Tea House Emporium says advise for 150-200ml.

the only problem is that very often both of them say one tea spoon for their version of a mug/cup, when the difference is almost double

Originally Posted by beppe

BTW. after I had that gunpowder after lunch to day, about an hour after, i felt a nice tingling in my hands. So what? well I sort of remember old sensations ... than I had to go and get my train, and was very pleasantly surprised by my elastic steps, a new energy, like I felt quite well. Is gunpowder tea stimulating ?

Accordingly to this - no.

[astra]

Originally Posted by beppe

how can I thank you for your continuous guidance and support?

That's more than enough

[beppe]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I can't bring my Kindle to work and I just don't like reading a DTB at this point in time.

Don't ask, rules are rules.

DTB what's that? I read on my touch. Stanza, iBooks and Kindle for iPhone. I just bought The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (advice of Wife who was advised by Fnac as for her recent acquisitions and yesterday she was just rolling around laughing her head off, I glanced at her pbook and bought mine for 6 bucks from Amazon, I gave them as address in the States Yankee stadium).

I can read on the PC screen of course. But if rules are rules, than rules are rules. The only real valuable thing that we have is ourself. If we loose it than we become nothing.

Count on me. On anything.

[kindlekitten]

dead tree book

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I still want your job.

heheh. I know. I shouldn't complain too much.

On the multiple Sencha's I am sure it is very similar to other teas where the first flus which is smaller and normally deemed to be a better quality, the second flush which is excellent and larger but still more rare, and then all of the pickings in between. You pay more for the rarity and the time of the harvest then anything.

I tend to go with the Sencha and Bancha that are organic from Tea Gschwendner and not worry too much about the higher quality stuff. What I get falls into my price range and tastes great so I stick with that.

If my delivery notic is to be believed I will have my Rishi shipment tomorrow. Lots of new Pu-erh to experiment with and a new tea cup.

Yeah!