Wednesday, July 24, 2024
How I make the perfect cup of tea, every time
If you're wondering how to make amazing cups of tea, every time, not only do you need great tea, but you also need to know the technique. Here's where this video comes in, as I demonstrate how I make perfect cups of tea every time.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Ume KonbuCha (Plum Seaweed "Tea")
Tastes more like a salty seaweed soup - being made of Japanese powdered seaweed that makes sense. Not really a tea. Just that I found it in the same draw as other teas. Difficult to taste the plum.
Labels: Cha, Drink, Hot, Japanese, Konbu, Seaweed, Soup, Tea, Ume
Friday, June 15, 2012
Whittard Organic English Breakfast Black Leaf Teabags
Recently Whittard (Chelsea 1886) contacted me asking me if I wanted some tea to review. Of course, was my reply. I do love a good English Breakfast tea. So here's one of the teas they sent me. It comes in a light blue box, containing 50 teabags, and says "Our customers favourite - rich strong and fresh" as well as "Strong Traditional". The teabags come in a foil wrap bag for freshness.
After brewing the tea, and giving the teabag a light squeeze above the cup after removing, then adding milk the tea has quite a rich colour. The flavour matches this, being quite "meaty" and refreshing, with a strength that you can feel. If this was coffee, I'd say it has quite a kick, but as it's not I'll simply say it packs quite a punch. The tea is from Tanzania, and is Whittard's own house blend. The instructions insist on fresh water, and are wise words to follow. The tea is strong and shouldn't be over-brewed, or stewed, and does leave a little bit of a dry mouth after drinking, so would be good followed by some water. I suspect this would go extremely well with the English Fry-up. The tea is available in the Whittard shops or online at www.whittard.co.uk and is definitely recommended.
Labels: Breakfast, English, organic, Refreshing, Review, Strong, Taste, Tea, Teabags, Whittard
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Labels: ASDA, organic, round tea bags, Tea
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Labels: Assam Tea, Punjana, Strong, Tea bags, Thompsons
Monday, October 01, 2007
Labels: south america, tea temples, Teapigs, yerba mate
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Lancashire Tea - from Asda - it had a label on the shelf saying "locally produced" and it is, being made about 10 miles away in Newton Le Willows (it's in Merseyside, but Merseyside was historically a part of Lancashire anyway, so I'll happily call in Lancashire tea). I was surprised by how nice it tastes, considering the old fashioned packaging and tea bag style (square). They recommend a brew of 3 - 4 minutes. I went for 3 minutes, and had a strong (but not bitter) cup of tea. They also suggest pouring the tea onto the milk, I'm not so sure about that, but each to his own. There's even a history of Lancaster printed on the bottom. If you can find some, then I'd say buy it!
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Labels: ASDA, Free bodum mug, Twinings Everyday Tea
Monday, March 19, 2007
Labels: ASDA, Assam Tea, Foil Wrapped, Good Tea
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The monkeys are eager to give a helping hand now that you have set them free, but even I struggled to open the plastic wrapping on the packet... The instructions on the side of the pack were short but promised great things: "there you have it; a delicious brew fit for a monkey." (assuming you're a monkey!) PG Tips are members of Ethical Tea Partnership which is perhaps why they've now decided to set all the monkeys free...
Once you work your way through the annoying perforated cardboard, the monkey quickly dives in to find you the perfect PG Tips Pyramid tea bag. I asked monkey why the tea wasn't foil packed, but the monkey simply mumbled something about the cost of foil packed freshness, and something about it not growing on trees.
A few minutes later and we were ready, I would have offered the monkey some, but decided that it was too hot and it would probably stain his white t-shirt. Tea Tasting: The tea tasted fairly fresh, mild, and once again wasn't very satisfying, it seems sort of dull, bland even, lacking in flavour. I'll ask the monkey to try harder next time.
Labels: ASDA, ethical tea partnership, Free monkey, ITV Digital, PG Tips, pyramid, slave labour, tea tasting
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
The first annual "Best Teas" awards are listed below - find out what should be on your shopping list for great tasting tea!
1 - Thunderbolt Pure Darjeeling - sourced direct from Thunderbolt Tea it's tea how it's meant to be experienced in it's full authenticity.
2 - Monkey Picked Tea - Expensive but gorgeous big leaves make and unique-ness make it a great party tea.
1 - Yorkshire Gold - reviewed back in 2004 there is no tea that I've tasted so far that betters Yorkshire Gold for a proper authentic british cuppa tea. With bags jammed packed full of tea you're bound to experience the full tea flavour.
2 - Dilmah Ceylon Supreme Tea - best when bought in it's origin: Sri Lanka. If you can't make it out there, then it should be available in your local Tesco, and it still tastes great!
lots of great articles on tea. highlights include: "brewing tea - is hotter better?" and "Mass produced teas - what's it worth?" - Make sure you check it out!
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Place one tea bag in a cup, pour on freshly boiled water, stir then leave for 1 minute (for medium strength, 3 minutes for strong brew), stir again then remove bag.
How does it taste? It tastes good, better than average, by that I mean that the tea has a noticable taste of tea, a refreshing taste, not overly weak like some teas, although the tea is slightly coarse tasting. Definitely worth trying.