The Coffee & Tea Thread
 

I used to drink a lot of coffee back in the days. For some years, I also used to work at a cafè where I like to think I made some very nice cappucinos. However, when I quit smoking, I simply had to quit coffee as well. Drinking a cup of coffee just brought on the cigarette cravings - the association was just too strong. Coffee along with a handrolled cigarette used to be my favourite daily treat and I still miss it.

So, I gave up coffee and started drinking tea instead. Quite a lot of it too, I guess commonly a litre or more each day. My favourite blends are earl greys and if I see an earl grey I haven't tried, I have to get it! My favourite so far I guess must be a London blue earl grey with some blue flowers in it that I got as a present from my GF from a local tea shop around here somewhere. Brilliant!

Most of the tea I drink is the inexpensive kind though :) Ahmad Earl Grey is fine and good old PG tips are alright in a pinch!


So what do you think? Got any favourites?

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I love tea. I used to really like jasmine tea, but after not drinking it for a while, it kind of lost it's appeal to me. My favorite is any kind of mint tea.

I use to have a thermos of green tea on the walk to work every morning back when I was at the lumberyard. I felt it helped keep me awake better than coffee, plus the tea bags were reusable, so when I got to work I could pour some more hot water into them and hop on my forklift and go about my day.

Now I seem to prefer coffee over tea, specifically lattes. I've found this little hole in the wall coffee shop nearby that makes the best latte I have ever had. I've done some traveling and actively visit places where people say "This is the best coffee I have ever had", but all have failed in comparison to Bibo's. Their house blend is a little weak, but everything else I've had from them has been amazing. The worst thing about their location though is that they don't have wifi. I mean what kind of coffee shop doesn't have wifi?

Anyhow I digress.

I drink an assload of coffee all day long. Nothing goes better with a cigarette than coffee, and I smoke an assload of cigarettes all day long. I do like to imbibe of a lot of herbal infusions as well. My favorite is a blend of hops, valerian root, chamomile, lavender, and kava kava... so nice.

That was too much assload

Two assloads is too much?

One assload is too much

As far as basic tea goes, I love black tea. I also enjoy infusions quite a bit, especially peppermint and chamomile. I always add honey.

I cannot drink coffee. I decided to give it another chance at Relay For Life last night (to help me stay awake) and I couldn't even finish half a cup of double cream. Ended up dumping it.

It seems to be the overwhelming consensus among the women I know.

I drink about 5 cups of green tea every day, I love that stuff. Usually one cup of black tea as well.

I used to drink coffee all the time when I was stoned, which was most days at one point. But like some of you guys, I've stopped smoking now, and I only have a cup of coffee once or twice a month these days. Tea ftw!

Has to be coffee, can't live without it. Nothing beats a perfectly made cup of coffee with two sugars, a drop of milk and a cigarette to go with it.

If people are after a very unique green tea then I would highly recommend Mighty Leaf Tropical Green Tea. It's a little pricey but great for a cold Autumn day, which will be coming up soon in this hemisphere at least.

I prefer coffee. I don't like tea at all unless it has an cuntload of lemon in it.

Tore I'll have a coffee thanks, milk only no sugar. A couple of marshmallows for the child in me if you got any lying around. Cheers man, I'll get yours next time.

And it made me laugh when I read it, I wanna know what this husky wee-wee is.

im addicted to caffine.. i love coffee

You like it black don't you?

Actually, it's a musical reference ;)

noope i gotta have cream

Every single person I know bar one only drinks tea or everyday coffee and I get funny looks at work when I partake of green tea :(

I mentioned Rooibos tea recently and they looked at me as if I was a freak.

Really? It seemed for a while here that it was some sort of fad to drink Rooibos tea. I was a freak for NOT drinking it.

Anyway...I love coffee and tea. Coffee all morning long, plain cream and sugar. Then in the afternoon it's herbal tea, usually raspberry hibiscus. It's lovely.

It's from Frank Zappa's Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

It took me a minute to realize what it was from.

^Yup, from the tracks "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and also "Nanook Rubs It" from Apostrophe. Great stuff :D

And the husky wee wee
I mean the doggy wee wee
has blinded me
and I can't see
temporarily

May his genius live on forever.

The coffee here is absolute sh*t. Starbucks is an abomination to coffee and that makes me sad because I love coffee. We've got a choice between starbucks, caribou coffee (I mean c'mon the name alone..) and various mom and pop shops that aren't much better *laments*

I agree. Its virtually impossible to find decent coffee in Auckland CBD. Mostly because its so small, but being jam-packed with Starbucks everywhere cant help. I'm a sucker for Mocha's, but the best one I had, I made myself. The ones at Starbucks are disgusting, and cost like $6. So exploiting :mad:

It is hard to find good coffees/cappucinos (always get cappos) here as well, even in restaurants. I'm so often disappointed that I don't often get them anymore. I mean, coffee at restaurants is f-ing expensive as well. You may pay as much as 5~6 US dollars or more for a cup here while you can get 100 cups of tea at home for the same price. ;)

So, any brand recommendations? I mentioned Ahmad Earl Grey in my first post which I personally think is okay.

Last one I got was this one, a ceylon (Sri Lanka) Earl Grey tea which is very fresh and fruity. Not a favourite, but it's good!

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And I think one of the worst cups I've had recently was this one.

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Not fresh, just bitter and boring. Doesn't even taste like a proper earl grey. Where's the nice bergamot?

I used to drink a lot of coke but my staple caffeine supply comes in the form of tea nowadays, and there's nothing better for keeping warm in the winter. I wouldn't exactly call myself a tea connoisseur but Earl Grey is my preference. I never really liked green tea. I sometimes drink coffee too - I currently have a tin of that Moccona dark blend.

As you can tell, I'm not really succeeding at reducing my dependency on caffeine... it's a losing battle :o:

^ Has basically been the story of my summer holiday.

Talking of which, my top 5 hot bevvies;

1. Moccha
2. Earl Grey tea
3. Oolong tea
4. Camomile tea
5. Frappucino

^ I voted espresso-based then.

Hopefully gonna get a Moka for my birthday, so will hopefully be making decent coffee then.

Been trying some of that Cafe Noir instant espresso stuff recently. It's not great.

I adore Earl Grey, but what gets me out of bed in the morning is this:

say what you will about starbucks and corporate america,...but they did pave the way for a more accessible coffee culture in america

Americans loved coffee way before Starbucks, they just didn't pay $5 a cup for it before Starbucks.

Does anyone here other than me think iced coffee is the most vile substance known to man?

It's good as hell, but not anywhere near being worth the price.

yes

my love affair with coffee started in the late 90s and i've pretty much had a cup a day everyday for the last decade. i normally make my own, with brown sugar and milk, too lazy to grind my own beans for now. a friend of mine is supposed to bring down some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee over the Christmas holidays, it's apparently the 2nd best stuff out there. we're not crazy (or rich) enough to try Kopi Luwak beans (they get eaten and pooped out by a small animal before being used to make coffee).

having said that I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR STARBUCKS!!! i'm not a die hard Tim's fan either (other Canadians know exactly what i'm talking about), i don't mind gourmet coffee shop action for a change either. what i do hate is not being able to order a simple black coffee at a place that sells itself as the trendiest coffee shop out there. the last time i gave money to starbucks there were 4 people behind the counter, i could smell the coffee but i couldn't figure out what combination of random words the guy at the counter wanted to hear so that i could just get a plain cup of coffee. apparently only 1 of the 4 people on staff actually drank real coffee and recognized what i was talking about.

plus the sizing terms are absurd - tall, grande, venti.... uhhh tall, large, and twenty? that's supposed to make sense?

as for iced coffee, it's pretty tasty when done right, then again i also like the Rockstar 'coffee' drinks. whatever you do, don't let it warm up.

I drink a fair bit of coffee...you'll find most people in my trade do. Kinda gets into your routine...as for my preference, Im not all too picky. I drink it black, and as long as its strong I like it.

I gotta have coffee when I wake up. Usually even if I nap for some reason I will have another cup of coffee, it just works for me. Theres this market bout an hour from my house that sells coffee from all over the world :thumb: first thing outta my mouth when I found that place "F!@K YA! Anyway I am currently enjoying a bag of ground beans from Kenya, it is some really really good coffee. I also have a backup bag of Vanilla bean coffee, which is pretty amazing, but only with vanilla creamer. If you mix it with original creamer, you get some nasty after taste.

I also love tea! I like some Earl Greys but so far my favorite is Chamomile theres nothing like relaxing with a cup of Chamomile & throwing on some tunes!

this fits here but could also go in the recreational thread, but does anyone else make their own tea from stems? a little brown sugar and i find it makes one of the tastiest green teas i've ever enjoyed.

I'm having a cup of this right now, with milk and honey in it. Yummy.
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