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AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011
You can also just add some dried mint to a cheap green tea you like. If you get the mint in bulk it might be the cheapest option if you loose steep the mint tea.

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AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

aldantefax posted:

i made a big tea mistake

i'll post about it when the mistake gets to my new place

Did you put a zero in the wrong place on an order form? Yeah, consider reselling some of that stuff. Depending on your volume you might get your door kicked in by the feds for suspicion of selling another green leafy substance so consider that possibility.

AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

Love Stole the Day posted:

While I'm at it, can you guys make some recommendations for new teas to try? I'm a big fan of barley tea (보리차), Earl Gray, Lady Gray, Rooibos, brown-rice green tea (현미녹차), raisin tree tea (헛개나무차), most other green teas, sweet tea, and peppermint tea. Kinds that I don't really like are English/Irish Breakfast (too bitter on the first steep for me... I need that condensed milk to make it palatable), and fruity-flavored tea (citrus accents like lady gray are cool though), and most other herbal teas.

This is a nice herbal tea with a unique sweet flavor.
http://yunnansourcing.com/en/flower-and-herbal-teas/2640-yunnan-wild-grown-jiaogulan-gynostemma-pentaphyllum.html

Ive been meaning to try some taiwaneese teas from yunnan sourcing, they will be in a less polluted environment than china if thats a concern.
http://taiwanoolongs.com/products/bug-bitten-honey-aroma-certified-organic-oolong-tea-winter-2016

AmericanBarbarian fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Mar 8, 2017

AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

Sirotan posted:

Was just doing this little quiz, and looking at their tea storage recommendations and see they suggest storing tea in the fridge. Does anyone do this? I usually just keep things in airtight containers in my cupboard/a cabinet at work.

This guy who owns a tea shop did a short blind taste test comparing different storing methods for wet, just infused once tea. Drying the tea up to an entire day between infusions of had a small impact on the taste of the tea in subsequent infusions. So I think storing the tea in a dry, room temp place is the unquestionably best method for storing tea. A fridge is pretty humid really, which is bad for any sort of tea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfog_jJ9zis

AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

A fridge would typically have lower relative humidity than your house, wouldn't it?

For most of the continental US a house with A/C should have much less humidity than a fridge. I tried looking up some figures on what the average humidity of a fridge is but apparently every time you open the fridge the interaction with the warmer house air creates a lot of humidity.

AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011

Schneider Heim posted:

I'm getting into loose leaf tea, mostly green, what are some well-loved Chinese/Japanese ones? I'm a boring person so my tastes are pretty basic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longjing_tea Aka Dragonwell, you can find it at a lot of shops in varying quality depending on your price range.

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AmericanBarbarian
Nov 23, 2011
https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/dan-cong-oolong-tea?sort_by=price-ascending

Yunnan Sourcing has a oolong tea sale going, I'm going to pick up some greener oolongs and see what they are like. I've never drunk oolongs before, any recommendations for what I should look for?

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