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Rico

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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2012, 05:34:05 PM »

I generally drink a morning latte with 3-4 shots of espresso for 16oz of milk. Except for having an old housemate steal my french press when we were moving and not having replaced it yet, I generally drink medium-dark french press for most other occasions. Bean quality and roasting quality makes a ton of difference in bitterness/acidity of strong coffee. Cold brew is delicious as hell and if you haven't tried it you should.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2012, 05:39:07 PM »

If you want good beans, and can't find any locally, I can personally recommend Kaldi's and Zumbar. Good coffee, not too expensive, decent variety. Both will send coffee to you whole bean, or ground however you need it.

Or you could just be like me and grind your beans at home, by hand. I'm probably alone on that one, though.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #22 on: June 14, 2012, 06:52:38 PM »

Yeah, that's pretty common at Greek/Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern joints.  They call it Arabic Coffee at the places I go to.

It is indeed potent.  Good with baklava and good if you need to stay up all night.

Do not drink the syrupy-looking stuff in the bottom.

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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #23 on: June 14, 2012, 07:52:36 PM »

My tea has so much sugar in it, that when it cools down, it's syrup. It's heavenly.
I'm not too fond of the flavor of coffee, and that's after I get it sweet enough to drink. I'm bitter enough I don't need to drink bitter liquids.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #24 on: June 14, 2012, 08:25:30 PM »



I drink a lot of tea.  No additives unless I feel like making Thai tea out of the Mauritius breakfast tea.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2012, 04:36:42 PM »

I have a lot of tea, but less than Esper. I don't like letting it sit around very long and I live close to a tea store, so I just keep one ounce of each at a time. I have a twelve-tin wooden tea chest, plus a few tins on my desk at work and random baggies hiding in lunch bags and purses.

I tend to take hot tea plain. Sometimes I take my black tea with milk. I take my iced tea plain, or with cream, or with condensed milk, or with the above plus tapioca pearls.

I take my coffee with milk, hot or cold. I can tolerate mediocre tea but I cannot tolerate mediocre coffee. I've also found light roasts to be way too acidic for me.

Sugar is preferably kept out of all my beverages, or to an absolute minimum. In coffee shops I will ask for a quarter as much syrup as they normally put into whatever-it-is I'm ordering. I'm not dieting, it just tastes bad.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2012, 04:46:00 PM »

Yeah, unfortunately I *don't* live near a good tea store anymore, so I have to stock up when I can.  When I get really good (competition grade) stuff, I make sure to drink that quickly, but the other teas last alright in a cool, dark place.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #27 on: June 18, 2012, 04:14:13 AM »

I drink a lot of tea.  No additives unless I feel like making Thai tea out of the Mauritius breakfast tea.


I was just visiting New York, so I stopped at McNulty's. They have some fine tea: this time I'm trying their Earl Grey and the silver tip white. I tend toward plain black, white, and oolong for breakfast, evenings, and general drinking. Gussied up bubble and milk teas are for rare trips out.

No coffee. Not even if it tastes like a chocolate bar.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #28 on: June 18, 2012, 04:41:35 AM »

Half hot strong coffee, half cold milk, one teaspoon of sweetener.

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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2012, 07:44:00 AM »

Yeah, that's pretty common at Greek/Mediterranean/Middle-Eastern joints.  They call it Arabic Coffee at the places I go to.

It is indeed potent.  Good with baklava and good if you need to stay up all night.

Do not drink the syrupy-looking stuff in the bottom.

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It's just coffee grounds, dude.  It'd be like drinking wet, coffee-flavored sawdust.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #30 on: June 18, 2012, 02:50:21 PM »

Due to some personal ascetic practices of mine I basically don't do coffee or tea. I'm fairly certain I tried both but I can't remember when, musta been a long time ago.

That said, there was some green tea on sale at the store today, and I picked some up in honor of this thread. It should be done steeping... right... about... now.

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mother of god

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that is

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So uh do I need to like put stuff in there or something? Guess I'll be going through this thread again for suggestions.

I mean it was three dollars so it's not the end of the world if it turns out I just straight up don't like green tea but wow. Is there like a major difference between price ranges and such? I'm open to the possibility that it's only the real cheap stuff that I hate. This is "Tetley" brand, maybe they're like the Hitler of teas, I wouldn't know.

Alright time to explore the wild world of additives I suppose.

edit:
additives report #1 - i've wasted some honey
future of additives report #2 uncertain
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #31 on: June 18, 2012, 03:23:37 PM »

Cheap green tea is vomit-inducing, yes.  We've got stacks of this discount stuff here that's like drinking the soil out of a pot of grass.

I dunno if they have them up there in Franch-Canadia, but Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf sells reasonably priced stuff that's pretty good quality.  Plus you can just plain order a cup of the tea before plunking down for a canister of it.

Or you can, you know, skip it.  I don't know what heavy caffeine would do to your crazy sleep issues.

ADDENDUM: There are no proper additives for green tea.  Drink it or give it away to some asian hobos.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #32 on: June 18, 2012, 03:35:33 PM »

Yikes, I knew tea has caffeine in it but I didn't realize it counted as heavy. As has been tested early on, excitants in general cause me to remain fully lucid longer but I don't actually stay awake any more than I would without, so the net effect is that I feel good for a while and then crash hard extremely fast, instead of gradually feeling the fatigue set in and being able to prepare for it.

Hmm. Maybe I'll just keep an eye out for sales on small amounts of quality stuff even if only for the sake of personal experience.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #33 on: June 18, 2012, 04:03:56 PM »

Bagged stuff is produced to a very specific price point, rather than to maximize pleasure.  Basically, they grind crappy tea really finely to maximize the exposed tea leaf surface area, which uses less tea per bag to yield a cup that has equivalent color.  It is difficult to get water to flow over whole tea leaves when they are packed into those flat tea bags.

Unfortunately, ground up tea maximizes bitterness while minimizing any other flavors that may have been present in the tea beforehand.  Ground up tea also overbrews extremely quickly, making the flavor:bitter ratio even worse.

If you're shopping around at places that only sell bagged teas, Mighty Leaf and their ilk have pyramid-shaped tea bags and whole-ish leaves inside.  These brew considerably better than Tetley/Lipton/etc.  I would say they still don't compare to decent loose-leaf tea, but you can definitely tell the improvement.

When shopping for loose-leaf tea, it helps to find a single tea that you really like and then branch out from there.  When I was a kid, I started off drinking mostly Japanese greens, with a preference for genmai cha (green tea with roasted brown rice).  The tea quality used in genmai cha is generally quite poor, but it's still delicious.  In college, I started sampling other greens, and eventually started approaching tea as a "tea omnivore."  As you can see, I still have a pretty diverse collection, though I definitely have my preferences and can increasingly detect differences in tea quality within my own stock.  Even so, I still drink a fair bit of genmai cha because it's delicious!  In my case, "find what you like and drink that" means "drink tea erry day."
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #35 on: June 18, 2012, 04:43:27 PM »

I LIKE MY COFFEE LIKE I LIKE MY MEN

BABIES

wait I think I fucked that up
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #36 on: June 18, 2012, 05:37:00 PM »

no, no, you're posting on an internet message board
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #37 on: June 18, 2012, 05:43:58 PM »

I like my coffee like my women

In the biggest cup size available
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #38 on: June 18, 2012, 06:25:52 PM »

I like my coffee like my women

as black, strong and bitter as I possibly can.
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Re: How Do You Take Your Coffee/Tea?
« Reply #39 on: June 18, 2012, 06:29:11 PM »

ok i take it back this thread cannot devolve into these jokes

however I hear May is a wonderful time of year to Jam in a Carnival
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