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Had an excellent Qilan (Wuyishan) Oolong Tea, coming from the Dahongpao (Big Red Robe). Interesting flavor, really light and yet complex, with orchid fragrance and a very little smoke undertone. I recommend short steeping time (around one minute) with slightly hotter water than for green teas. Tried it with 98°C water and a steeping time of 40 second, it was good, too.

http://puerh.blogspot.de/2011/08/china- ... grade.html

Just linking because it is the only review I found of a similar tea.

Lately I am trying some black tea the Egyptian style with fresh mint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_culture#Egypt

Delicious stuff indeed, seems similar to the Maroc style.

^ Yes, the difference is the Moroccans use green tea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_mint_tea

But yes, very delicious.

Interesting article (and a great website) about tea in cocktails: http://www.worldoftea.org/tea-cocktails/

It does actually make sense, the bitter taste in tea could be a placeholder for tannin in wines.

If you ask yourself: "Earl Grey infused Beefeater Gin??", here is a link to it: http://theginqueen.com/earl-grey-tea-infused-gin/

^ Thanks for the share, very nice website the gin queen has :)
But... I was not supposed to drink today, now I have too Julius :P

^ never wanted to encourage anybody to drink alcohol ;)

I ordered an interesting tea today, it's a so-called Jasmine Red Tea (so, black tea with jasmine buds) - never had this before, only with green tea as base.
A few days ago a collection of Wuyi Shan teas arrived, in nice small 5g pouches - the typical oolong/black tea set with Dahongpao (Big Red Robe), Rou Gui (Cassia), Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong (Lapsang Souchong), Qilan (Rare orchid), Lao Cong Shui Xian (Old bush narcissus) and Jin Jun mei (Golden beautiful eyebrow). Of course I have only sampled them, not in parallel, and especially the rock teas all taste very similar - right now, the Qilan is my favourite, with its slightly floral and delayed ("returning") sweetness. It needs a steeping time of less than 10 seconds (!) - good for impatient people like me ;)

^ always annoyed me when people brew the fuck out of green tea.
I may have said that before...I don't get out much...

on herbal infusions we've had very nice Greek mountain tea, from buying random bags of greenery in greek supermarkets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideritis

I'm still going through the mate IQ.
was even thinking about getting a mate gourd and straw thing...

^ yeah nothing is worse than the typical "4-6 minutes", maybe even using boiling water on those delicate green tea leaves. Awful.

Sideritis sounds like some "Debian unstable inflammation", and mate gourd / straw sounds like some GTK frontend:

"Yeah you start Mategourd on your server and Straw on your client, and it will redirect all traffic through Mate IQ"

^ Lol, someone is in a good mood today.
And the symptom is the X.org plague... :D

heheh, yeah!

Tea drinker here. Indonesian tea is crap compared to others. Over the years have had some tasty teas from Guangxi (directed at MB) and all over China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka and East Africa. Grew up with Orange Pekoe everyday as it was both my grandmother's favourite and in Canada, the famous brand is Red Rose Tea. My wife just picked me up some Orange Pekoe from Ahmad Tea and got some Cardamom Tea waiting for me once I get back to Bali.

having a taste of some Chun mee green tea, quite pleasant, like green tea tends to be.

Cannot believe ebay has run out of mate IQ, going to have to buy elsewhere.

^ cool, I never had Chun Mee before (at least not that I knew of, green teas I tend to drink the regional offerings) - some reviews call it 'sour' ... probably they mean 'mineral' or as I call it 'rockish' :) And some reviews write something about 3 minutes steeping time -- phew, I rarely go over 1 minute recently.

http://ratetea.com/style/chun-mee/18/
http://www.teaviews.com/category/chun-mee-tea/
http://steepster.com/teas/tazo/34469-chun-mee-green

yeah ^ I would (as a wuss) go along with mineraly yeah 'acidic' in the wiki, but more limestoney really.
it is loose, and I drink it lazy put a pinch in a mug, off boil water.. drink when able and stop when it tastes bad. It is a bit lighter and less organic than the cheapo gunpower we normally have...
thanks for the review links. yes it does look like eyebrows :)

Drinking Tea in this area means:

(1) You're a woman
(2) You're an Ost-Frisian dude/girl
(3) You're gay

No Tea bashing, but in the Netherlands almost everyone drinks coffee. In the North-East part we share a lot in culture, language etc with 'Niedersachsen' and are more or less the same people, except the 'tea-thing' :) Ost-Frisian is after England a region with the most tea-drinkers in the world (we couldn't beat them, so we choose for coffee) :D
Ofcourse I'joking, but a teastore (which seems to be normal across the border) is here something you can't find.
Oh btw, the Ost-frisians are after the British the largest (amount) teadrinkers in the world..
And if I am in an Ost-Frisian kind of mood, I drink Earl Grey.. which may be confusing with point 3 :)

^ I like the Bergamot flavour too.

Edit: FFS I didn't even know it was an orange http://is.gd/FnnA97, no wonder it works well with deserts :O

^ Lady Grey is another variant with lemon and orange oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grey_(tea)

^^ hmmmm, some stats:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... per_capita
https://www.tea.co.uk/tea-faqs
http://worldteanews.com/news/per-capita-tea
http://qz.com/168690/where-the-worlds-b ... nkers-are/

It's maybe worth to mention that most of the European countries (plus Morocco and Turkey) usually infuse their (black) tea once, while the Asians infuse several times (up to 8 times if the tea is of higher quality). Also the amount of tea leaves differs depending on preparation method. I would not generalize *ever*, especially the bullshit with being gay or being a woman. That tea is popular in countries that had colonies you can thank the exploiters.
http://www.teamuse.com/article_001102.html

Like what archvortex said, Indonesian teas aren't as good as other Asian countries, we are mostly coffee drinker. However there is one i can definitely said is as good (or almost as good) as Indian black tea.. Pasir Nangka http://www.imperialteas.co.uk/java-pasir-nangka-o-p from Tangerang (Kabupaten) and Wonosobo region. I'm not much of a reviewer but this one isn't a subtle tea, and there isn't a lot to say about its smell/aroma other than it has some slight indonesian rice qualities to it. Despite its name (Jackfruit Grit), it has absolutely no jackfruit like taste in it.

I've heard of some others of course like Bukit Barisan tea, but i haven't tried any of it (and most if those stuff aren't for indonesian market, so it's quite rare and sometimes too expensive for us to have a taste of our own delicacies)

^^ No harm intended by the points :) But if someone asked for tea when coffee is offered they called them 'mietje' which means faggot, gay, orso. It's more a fun thing :)

Quote from another site according the East-Frisian teaculture:
"Today, according to the German Tea Association, if East Frisia were a country its annual per capita consumption of 300 liters would be the highest in the world, ahead of Kuwait’s 290 liters, Ireland’s 257 and Turkey’s 225."
http://www.teamuse.com/article_001102.html