Green
- At February 27, 2007
- By ken
- In design / me
A residual of not feeling great last week… I couldn’t drink coffee. And so I warded off my caffeine dependency. What’s new? Great tea, as recommended by the great Jake Beaty. I’ve been consuming it exclusively for several days, and I’ve fully acquired the taste, now. It may be my new drink of choice. Now, I still love a good cup of java, but since I’ve gone through detox on the coffee, I think I may avoid it for a little while.
Are there any hot tea drinkers out there? If so, what brands do you recommend. If you’re going to be a connoisseur, do it with style. Are there good places to get loose leaf tea to make yourself. Are there any interesting ways to brew green tea? I’m ready to learn.
Unrelated, here’s a nice combination CG / stop motion animation piece of moving typography. The purpose and meaning seem a little abstruse, but I do like the roughed edges and the tight integration with music.
Josh
Check out teavana.com. I’m not a tea connoisseur by any means, but I’ve been to one of their stores, and they had some good stuff.
Anna
Brigelow’s Lemon Lift + two packs of equal and a little honey = perfection. My mom got me hooked on this after a cold. Its a great sore throat soother.
Charles Cole
I too just discovered Green Tea. So my only experience is Lipton. ( no boo birds please ) However, I have for years been a huge Earl Grey fan when I relax in the evenings. Go with Twinnings or Bigelow, or the much better London Court.( more costly and harder to find.. Aldi and sometimes Publix ) If you are pulling all the stops AHMAD of London is the ultimate but you have to order it as an import item $$$ .
BrianP
I’m not much of a tea drinker. I have been to China though… does that count? By the way… China is a great place to get Green Tea.
If you can get there… downtown Xaimen has a great little tea shop right next to an open market where they 100% K9 fillets and try to seel it as veal. Don’t be fooled.
Junior
While I don’t agree with anything they stand for, TAZO makes a wonderful orange herb tea.
deafeningsighlence
I second the Teavana recommendation. I really like their Sencha green and Peach Oolong. I think the closest locations to Anderson are in Charlotte and Mall of Georgia. I believe EarthFare in Greenville has some self-serve loose green tea that looks promising. Tea keeps for a very long time if you keep it out of the light and out of the air. Various companies make a little acrylic pot that has a valve in the bottom what works wonderfully for making a single cup of hot tea or a couple of small glasses of iced tea if you are so inclined. They seem to allow better flavor extraction that the common tea ball.