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Old 10-25-2017, 12:07 PM   #34621
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Last night, a wee dram of Central City's Lohin McKinnon Single Malt -- a BC distillery trying something interesting.

But this morning? Murchie's Balmoral Blend tea
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Old 10-25-2017, 06:06 PM   #34622
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Old 10-27-2017, 08:30 AM   #34623
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Old 10-27-2017, 11:50 AM   #34624
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Murchie's English Breakfast Blend tea. A good EB type, but one that requires at least 205F water to brew properly. At 190F, it's insipid.
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Old 10-27-2017, 06:07 PM   #34625
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Old 10-29-2017, 12:13 AM   #34629
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I'd been kind of ignoring this one, but decided to try some again. Since it tasted like a weak Keemun before, I decided to let it steep eight minutes instead of my normal four. It's really quite good. There's no bitterness to speak of, so it seems to benefit from as long a soak as you care to give it.

This is the loose leaf. I'll have to try the tea bags again, but I recall those being pretty wretched.

EDIT: Nope. The bags are crap.
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Old 10-30-2017, 12:07 PM   #34631
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EDIT: Nope. The bags are crap.
Not surprising. Sounds like this is a tea that needs careful treatment to get the best out of it. Bags aren't conducive to that, as you know.

I'm just finishing a morning coffee, and waiting for my Peet's Irish Breakfast Blend tea to steep. I steep this at 205F for 3 minutes in a pre-warmed pot. Any lower temperature and it gets one-dimensional, and any longer steep and it takes milk to cut the bitterness. But like this? A wonderful breakfast blend. Full bodied and astringent, without being 'builder's tea'.
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Thirteen hours into a power outage here and perforce my morning libation was Dunkin' Donuts dark roast, black, no sugar. It was vile. I picked it because it was closest, but next time I'll go farther afield. I don't get New England's love affair with Dunkin' Donuts.
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Thirteen hours into a power outage here and perforce my morning libation was Dunkin' Donuts dark roast, black, no sugar. It was vile. I picked it because it was closest, but next time I'll go farther afield. I don't get New England's love affair with Dunkin' Donuts.
Sort of like Canadian's love affair with Tim Horton's. The donuts I get. But the coffee? Sigh.

Moving on to faux San Pellegrino for the rest of the day.
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Thirteen hours into a power outage here and perforce my morning libation was Dunkin' Donuts dark roast, black, no sugar. It was vile. I picked it because it was closest, but next time I'll go farther afield. I don't get New England's love affair with Dunkin' Donuts.
I'm on the road three days a week these days. I get a break in the vicinity of a couple of strip malls/shopping centers that are across the street from each other. One has a Starbucks, the other has a Dunkin Donuts. I stop at the Dunkin and have a large "to go" coffee. I don't like coffee well enough to be able to really distinguish between good and great, but Starbucks coffee has always tasted burnt to me. On the other hand, I was willing to drink Starbucks coffee when I was regularly driving the NY Thruway.

The other benefit of the Dunkin Donuts is that it's in the corner on the second story of the shopping center and has a wrap-around, roofed patio. I can sit outside and read even if it's raining.


EDIT: There are two Tim Hortons in my state, and one of them is about five minutes away. I haven't stopped by yet.
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