Tea... an important issue

I also love one spoonful of Darjeeling with one of English Breakfast in a small pot - Luci's Mix.

This is know as Irish Breakfast tea. I can't remember what the blend is for Scottish breakfast off the top of my head.

WAIT. Irish is half Darjeeling and half Assam.

seldom that's a great tale and bet that cuppa was good

"That's the best cup of tea, something nice and simple, when you most need it, served by a friendly face of someone who's pleased to see you and understands that tea is more than just a hot liquid in a drinking vessel."

This

This is know as Irish Breakfast tea. I can't remember what the blend is for Scottish breakfast off the top of my head.

WAIT. Irish is half Darjeeling and half Assam.
I once hiked two miles into Kinsale for 1/2 pound of Irish tea and a sunday paper. We got back to the cottage by the sea, opened the box and found a damp mouldy mass, been on the shop shelf for ages.

Current default tea is 2/3 Assam + 1/3 Darjeeling. with milk.
Blend varies as you work down to the bottom of the jar, where the Assam has settled.

I prefer Sainsbury's Fair Trade, or Waitrose, better than Tesco's, better and cheaper than Twinings.

lovely tea story from canada^

i think a good cuppa requires decent untreated water boiled without the crud in london kettles..

http://www.teekampagne.de/en

I order darjeeling from there about once a year when they get new supplies, usually first flush and some of the green tea. great enterprise, been around for some time, I think they ship to the uk as well. they dont spend money on advertising, economize on storage and only sell larger amounts. quality and price are really fine. I drink their tea since I can remember, my father has been buying from them for about 20 years. brew the first flush exactly two minutes with boiling water.

Hey Digger - any joy with that Beryl tea service?

No answer, not fussed it will come to me...

I hate tea, with one exception, this stuff, it's amazing:

In an otherwise coffee drinking country, East Frisia is noted for its consumption of tea and its tea culture. Strong black tea is served whenever there are visitors to an East Frisian home or other gathering, as well as with breakfast, mid-afternoon, and mid-evening. Tea is sweetened with kluntjes, a rock candy sugar that melts slowly, allowing multiple cups to be sweetened.[2] Heavy cream is also used to flavor the tea. The tea is generally served in traditional small cups, with little cookies during the week and cake during special occasions or on weekends as a special treat. Brown rum, mixed with kluntjes and left for several months, is also added to black tea in the winter. The tea is alleged to cure headaches, stomach problems, and stress, among many other ailments.

^Sounds disgusting...apart from the cookies and cake bit*.

*throws tea in nearest plant pot

Could someone bring me a brew to the Excel centre please? Working at an expo today, doesn't look like they are going to feed or water me. I'm gasping. Strong, milky and no sugar please.

Tea may well be restorative, but it has no answer to the horrors of the Excel centre...

I used to work there behind a bar. On my first day I had to wheel a large counter unit to the other side of the building on the 1st floor. I got lost for hours, that place is massive.

It's HELL

It's HELL

I felt like this when i went to the grand designs thing with a raging hangover. scary place.

once when I was there there was a Muslim event going on, and they decided to have security on the door with airport like security for all the muslim people going. I thought that was really disrespectful. The dirty forrun terroristst aren't going to blow up their own events.

the Excel Centre is such a rubbish venue, only been twice..
2008 london marathon collect race stuff
2011 olympic gamemaker interview

i pity anyone who lives around there it's like
toytown on water..

Scottish Blend.

Failing that, Tennents

Scottish Blend.

Failing that, Tennents

...HA!,

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Best cuppa IMHO - Assam Joonktollee SFTGFOP

Does anyone blend their own? I put a couple or three TBSPs of a blend called Arctic Fire in a caddy (250g) ordinary loose tea. A cheap way to have a nice tasting cup.

I have grown to love the Assam tea. It is gorgeous, and softly swirls around my tongue like a mermaid doing her courtship. Clean, strong, fresh, relaxing. I am mostly a coffee drinker, but I think life would be not worth having without tea.

I drink Assam tea and it is wonderful. I too drink mostly coffee, but have recently got a little tired of it.

I could never possibly tire of tea.