Tea

[Calin Leafshade]

I have an idea.

Dont ride a bike with hot tea AT ALL.

[Gilbert]

I have an even better idea.

Don't ride a bike with ANY drink at all.

[Phemar]

I have an idea too.

Don't ride a bike.

[Barricus]

The only tea I drink is a local tea called Rooibos tea (Afrikaans: Red Bush tea). It's delicious and awesome. Also it's caffeine-free.

I've never tried Rooibos tisane, but I have had Yerba Mate, which is not from the Camellia sinensis plant either (all forms of tea are from the Camellia sinensis, otherwise they're called tisanes).  It comes from Paraguay and Argentina, has a strong almost coffee like flavor and loads of caffeine.  Che Guevera's family actually owned a small Yerba Mate plantation in Argentina when he was growing up.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Next on Tea Time With Barricus:  Yuletide Teas of the World!

Seriously dude, you should have a Food Network show where you just go around the world tea binging and squeezing bags of tea/sniffing them and giving satisfied/dissatisfied looks at the camera.  I saw a documentary where this teafessional was in china rating the various teas there just by sniffing and feeling up the leaves.  Some crazy people with crazy skills in the world, so why not capitalize on yours?

I'd watch it, and I don't drink tea at all...

[Mati256]

The only tea I drink is a local tea called Rooibos tea (Afrikaans: Red Bush tea). It's delicious and awesome. Also it's caffeine-free.

I've never tried Rooibos tisane, but I have had Yerba Mate, which is not from the Camellia sinensis plant either (all forms of tea are from the Camellia sinensis, otherwise they're called tisanes).  It comes from Paraguay and Argentina, has a strong almost coffee like flavor and loads of caffeine.  Che Guevera's family actually owned a small Yerba Mate plantation in Argentina when he was growing up.

I am from Uruguay, next to Argentina. We drink Mate all the time too. 

[Barricus]

The only tea I drink is a local tea called Rooibos tea (Afrikaans: Red Bush tea). It's delicious and awesome. Also it's caffeine-free.

I've never tried Rooibos tisane, but I have had Yerba Mate, which is not from the Camellia sinensis plant either (all forms of tea are from the Camellia sinensis, otherwise they're called tisanes).  It comes from Paraguay and Argentina, has a strong almost coffee like flavor and loads of caffeine.  Che Guevera's family actually owned a small Yerba Mate plantation in Argentina when he was growing up.

I am from Uruguay, next to Argentina. We drink Mate all the time too. 

Yeah, I forgot to mention Uruguay, sorry about that.

Next on Tea Time With Barricus:  Yuletide Teas of the World!

Seriously dude, you should have a Food Network show where you just go around the world tea binging and squeezing bags of tea/sniffing them and giving satisfied/dissatisfied looks at the camera.  I saw a documentary where this teafessional was in china rating the various teas there just by sniffing and feeling up the leaves.  Some crazy people with crazy skills in the world, so why not capitalize on yours?

I'd watch it, and I don't drink tea at all...

I'm teaching a tea class next month at a local artist space.  I just got some new teaware in the mail today.  Now I have 4 teapots, 2 gaiwans, and 12 teacups.  I can borrow 3 more teapots, so I can have a total of nine different teas available to drink, for the class, at one time. 


12/17/10 EDIT: I'm drinking a pot of Lapsang Souchong right now.  It tastes like firewood and beef jerkey.  It's amazing, but very strong.  A good tea for this time of year.  It get's it's flavor from being smoked over pinewood fires, so a very Christmas-appropriate drink.  I'd serve it with something sweet, like apricot preserves and toast, for a morning drink.