Tea (plus merged tea / coffee thread)

[Birdjaguar]

Alternate ways to imbibe coffee and tea:

Chai, Indian tea with milk and spices
Cafe au lait, half strong coffee and half hot milk
Iced tea, often very diluted
Iced coffee, like coffee icream, but liquid
Coffee milkshakes
Boba tea, flavored tea with pearl tapioca

All will deliver the caffeine, but can be easier on your system.

 

[bhsup]

oh, is it suppose to be hot or consumed in Summer ?? thou singapore is hot, i dont find it sufficient to boil anything at all... seal it in plastic bag ??

No, it doesn't boil. It just slowly brews in the sun on a warm day over the course of a few hours. You then refridgerate it, or just pour over ice and serve.

Sun brewed iced tea is indeed a summer drink, but I also have a brewer to make it all year round. Always found it amusing that my iced tea brewer is made by Mr. Coffee.

 

[Turner]

Sun tea's good. I like to brew my tea in a coffee pot and let it simmer for a few hours. Not quite like sun tea, but it gives a different taste.

Hudson Bay Tea is my favorite, but I can't drink it at my place because I don't have the right teapot, and I'm not spending a fortune on one for it. And don't ask, cuz I don't know. It's something my dad gets from Alaska.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I drink neither. I prefer orange juice.

 

[Odin2006]

I'm a coffee person myself, though I like iced tea in the summer.

 

[downtown]

guess what my answer is guys!

 

[jamiethearcher]

I am a tea lover.

I dislike coffee though.

 

[Irish Caesar]

guess what my answer is guys!

Mine would be similar, but for different reasons.

 

[Aramazd]

I drink tea, but I hate coffee

 

[Aramazd]

oops double post

 

[The Yankee]

Coffee. Though I do like iced tea, haven't had any in quite a while. Coffee I do have most days of the week.

 

[punkbass2000]

Oh, and don't crush it up and snort it, ...
Bad, bad, BAD idea.

Generally sound advice

 

[bhsup]

Generally sound advice

Hehe, yeah. You'd think I would have known in advance not to do that one, eh? Oh well, live and learn!

 

[Zarn]

I drink coffee to pick me up in the morning and tea to keep me up in the evening. I don't drink either everyday.

 

[CaptainF]

I wonder if there is a way to mix coffee and tea to create some sort of super-beverage...

Toffee. The Uber caffiene quencher.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

There is nothing like a cup of black coffee in the morning to wake up.

For the caffeine junkies: I am tutoring a lab where for one example the students have to determine the caffeine quantity of coffe, tea or caffeine containing beverages.

Teas (black and green) have around 0.4 mg/ml, Red Bull 0.26, iced coffees (the Nestle stuff) 0.7 and coffees up to 5 mg/ml Normal filter coffees have around 2, but this one was prepared by a Serbian student who "made it like at home". Don´t knnow how they can stomach this stuff, though.

 

[Bartleby]

I drink one cup of coffee per day, at breakfast time.

I read once that, pound for pound, there's more caffeine in tea leaves than coffee beans, but the way we brew it, coffee is "stonger."

 

[thetrooper]

Coffee.

I drink tea once in a blue moon. I would like to know more about Ram-chan's hangover tea though.

 

[Rambuchan]

I prefer coffee over tea.

But this doesn't mean I don't enjoy a good cuppa now and then however. In fact I relish a cup of Lapsang, Earl Grey (these two I like black), Assam or Darjeeling (with milk). I also make damn good (fresh) mint tea. Learned the precise process off a very demanding Arabic boss. And you can't beat a nice spicey cup of Indian Masala Chai (done with the proper spices, milk and sugar; not flacid immitation in a bag). Masala Chai is one of the best things to make you feel better when you've got a hangover. It comes a close second to some good oral... sorry.

 

[thetrooper]

Masala Chai is one of the best things to make you feel better when you've got a hangover.

Thanks ould chap! I knew I could rely on you.