Mighty leaf green tea

So Mighty Leaf Tea sends me some more tea, this time it's two packets of green tea..."Organic Green Dragon" which looks and smells like cut grass. I like the silk pouch...this time it actually sank into the water, and brewed out pretty well. The color of the liquor is very light. I'm much more used to black tea, so this is a bit out of my experience. But the tea is described as having a nutty, buttery flavor...I don't find that to be the case...this is my "vocabulary is lacking" to describe flavors. I can go w/ sweet, sour, salty...but that's about it. I believe that green teas' flavors are extremely subtle, and since I don't have a base, it's hard to work with...So for me, the flavor is good. I like it, and I'll drink more! At first it was strong, but as the tea cooled the flavor improved. Not that it was bad by any stretch, but it did get better. The tea also is a bit of a cooling tea, which I liked.

darjeeling, From Old Pass Spice Traders

About a month ago I bought some black tea from Old Pass Spice Traders at John's Pass, in St Petersburg, FL...I had some today, and it was smooth and had body, like a cup of milk. An odd thing to be sure, but it went well with this tea. I was really happy I was drinking it. I wish I could figure out the exact proportion of tea, since it was soo good. It was a bit strong, and not cooling, but the body made it really enjoyable on my tongue...

IngenuiTea, revisited

I complained to Adagio about their tea-maker thing, and they sent me two new diffuser filters for it, and I saw how they snapped in, but then after the first time of using it, it shrank! Now it's the same problem as before. It doesn't fit on there right.

They did send me some "Birthday Tea" which is wonderful! The aroma of the raw tea is strong, but the resulting brew is fantastic! I will have more, that's for sure.

Finally figured out the Earl Grey Bravo!

Yay for me. I figured out the Earl Grey Bravo. Finally. It's such a strong tea that a very little bit really goes a long way. I think I need to buy a tea scale, since the way I measure it now is to eyeball it in the cup sized tea infuser that I have, and then put it into the ingenuiTEA...but I've modified this whole setup now. I boil the water in the microwave (takes 4 minutes! Much quicker than the stove with kettle) using the ingenuiTEA, since it works well there, and I can see the water boiling, then I pour the boiling water into my cup with the tea leaves in the infuser. It's not as fun doing it this way because I can't watch the tea leaves fall, but I feel like it's more efficient and I have more control over the brewing process somehow. And cleanup is a bit easier, too. The ingenuiTEA doesn't stain this way, either.

So I digressed: the Earl Grey Bravo is STRONG stuff! I use a very small amount to get a strong cup of tea. I need to get a scale to measure it more accurately so I can be more consistent in each cup, and come up with a proper amount for each tea that suits my taste. I know that I can't use the same amount of Yunnan Jig as Darjeeling.

Tea with Milk

Today I'm having a very weak English Breakfast, and it's still strong! So I tried it with a bit of whole milk, and it got closer to coffee...still not as rich. I guess I'm trying to understand why coffee appears to be the more popular of the two, by using English Breakfast as a reference point. It's not the same as all the other teas I've had so far. Tea is tea is tea, except for English Breakfast (and the Irish Breakfast). Go figure that one out.

The ingenuiTEA...that little filter thing should have a locking mechanism, since it just fits too loosely...and it's getting stained, too. It's to be expected, sure, but still. It only seems like an elegant thing for a while, but it's losing its appeal the more I use it. The filter should also have a longer rod that goes to the top. I see that it has holes to let hot water cycle through? Need an engineer for this one...