What’s your beverage of choice, comrades? I really love espresso or green and white teas, usually an espresso in the morning and tea throughout the day. What do y’all like?

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  • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    My most common beverage is and has always been just water. I drink water all the time. I think I stim with my water bottle.

    But on the beverages that you actually need to make, it’s tea (but I do love a good coffee).

    Used to drink way too much coffee, but nowadays I just have a really good cup sometimes, as a treat.

    When I decided to stop my coffee drinking (thanks covid gi issues) I went all in with the tea stuff and got myself a nice teapot and started to buy better tea. I really like teas from Yunnan or Vietnam. The Yunnan golden monkey tea I got last year was one of the best teas I’ve ever had. But I do enjoy a good assam as well and my daily tea is Russian Earl Grey or some other strong Earl Grey with lots of lemon flavour. Or a tea called Yunnan Golden Needle.

    I love the teas that have lots of the golden tips in them, also loving loose leaf teas more and more. Also tried a tea called dragon pearl a while ago, it was amazing.

    I also discovered that I don’t like puerh at all. Although I like other fermented stuff, but this funk is just too funky for me.

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      10 months ago

      Nice! It’s expensive, but sometimes I treat myself to Silver Needle tea. Very clean tasting, normally I like a bit of funk with my coffee but for tea the cleanliness is part of the appeal.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah they can be pricy. I love that I have a local tea shop where you can buy a tasting bag of a tea to try it out first. It’s always still enough to make a whole pot or several cups, but it isn’t terribly pricy. This is how I was able to try the handrolled dragon pearl.

        I have gone very bourge with this tea stuff I’ll admit. It’s become my main caffeine treat so I splurge on it.

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          10 months ago

          Oh, sounds nice! I might have to see if there’s something like that around me. I splurge on coffee equipment (but not to the extreme levels some people do) so I totally understand!