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Title: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: ken_ on September 05, 2018, 05:10:41 PM

I know it's the dog days of summer but this is really slow. Unless a lot of the regulars hit the lottery and quit the forum, got abducted by aliens, or raptured...

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: Jerry D Young on September 05, 2018, 07:19:25 PM

I do not drink coffee, but I am up for hot cuppa tea.

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: ken_ on September 05, 2018, 09:07:19 PM

Know a good place to get tea around here?

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: Ken K7KBJ on September 06, 2018, 11:42:42 AM

Might be aliens.

I'm still here so it wasn't Rapture.

HAHAHA

I'm up for coffee, for sure!

Ken

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: Jerry D Young on September 06, 2018, 12:38:29 PM

I know there are several coffee houses, as well as a few tea places. Most have both. But I have not been to any of them. I will leave it up to the coffee drinkers to choose. I can drink most any tea.


Just my opinion.

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: WolfBrother on September 20, 2018, 10:14:07 PM

Unlike JT and those he has converted, I am not much of an Earl Grey fan.  (JT is introduced as a character in Jerry's story "Expedition")

However, Twinnings English Breakfast Tea - that's what I buy to store and to drink.  I pay a premium to get the loose tea in the metal container.  The empty containers come in handy.
https://smile.amazon.com/Twinings-English-Breakfast-Loose-7-05/dp/B008RYNJ9A  I purchase it locally for about $7.
They also make a very good Irish Breakfast Tea.

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: Jerry D Young on September 21, 2018, 02:01:52 PM

One of the reasons I like the Bigelow, aside from just the taste and health benefits, is the single bag packaging. It is a foil type packaging that keeps the tea fresh for a very long time. I am seriously considering getting both green tea and black tea bricks, and oil of bergamot in order to make my own Earl Grey blend when commercial tea is no longer available. The bricks keep a very long time, as do essential oils. And the teas they use in most brick tea is usually very good tea.


And for the locals, I am still up for a coffee/tea/hot chocolate meeting.


Just my opinion.

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: WolfBrother on September 22, 2018, 05:20:41 PM

Tea bricks - source?


There is another tea I drink on occasion. It’s called lapsang souchong. It is smoked and delivers a smokey taste.  Not everyone finds it to their liking. 

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: Jerry D Young on September 23, 2018, 06:54:44 PM

Lapsang souchong is okay. But I much prefer Russian Smoked Tea to the lapsang souchong.


Just a few sources for brick tea:
https://www.enjoyingtea.com/blackteabrick.html

https://www.enjoyingtea.com/greenteabrick.html

https://www.amazon.com/Spice-Lab-China-Black-Brick/dp/B000OCRU98
https://www.hamiltondrygoods.com/more-neat-stuff/chinese-brick-tea/
http://www.oliverpluff.com/black-tea-brick/
https://www.svtea.com/Teabricks/products/17/


Just my opinion.

Title: Re: Anybody up for a cup of coffee?
Post by: owldancer on September 28, 2018, 10:07:30 AM

Jerry Thank you for the links.

Being another tea drinker and a reenactor this will be great fun to have and a great prep.