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What winter tea are you drinking?

I like lemon ginger or whatever its called, sometimes it has a "touch" of honey in the tea 🤷🏻

Also any time of the year Davids Tea earl grey Altho i kinda wanna get into english breakfast each morning to go with my famous breakfast sandwich

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piefed.social

My wife and I moved towards loose leaf tea a few years ago I am not going back to bags or flavored brands. Its cheaper and amazing. That being said I do have a few blends that I typically drink in the winter:

  • My go to standard warming tea is Black Tea and Ginger (Mostly black tea with a hint of ginger)
  • A cold buster blend (Nettle, Raspberry, Yarrow, Marshmallow root and licroice root). Its kind of sweet and great mixing with black tea or pepper mint
  • Lemony Blend (Lemongrass, Lemon Verbena and Lemon Balm)
  • Anise Hyssop with anything. Its slightly anise flavor with a beautiful minty aromatic quality that goes great with anything.

I highly recommend trying custom tea blends if you can find bulk tea.

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piefed.social

No brand. I just mix a 1:1:1 mixture of Lemongrass, Lemon Verbena and Lemon Balm. Its amazing. I have seen some lemon teas brands that do the similar thing

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cheese_greaterreply
lemmy.world

Where do you obtain all those constituent parts, do you grow all that stuff or where do you gather them all?

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piefed.social

For this blend I do grow them all. There's a local food co-op that sells bulk teas but I do know some high end groceries stores sell them. I also purchase some hard to find herbs from Mountain Rose Herbs but that's really not cost effective unless it's a large amount. Just note that a few ounces is a huge quantity

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jqubed
lemmy.world

I’m not a fancy tea drinker; when we get into winter months I’ll typically drink Twining’s Irish Breakfast tea with sugar and half-and-half or cream, whichever we have. It’s pretty readily available for me and I feel like the flavor is more robust than English Breakfast.

You may want to check out a few of the tea communities:

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farmgineer
nord.pub

The season has no bearing on the type for me, just the temperature. In the rare event I'm drinking tea, it's green tea; hot when I'm cold and cold when I'm hot. Nothing added, just as-is.

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nord.pub

Whatever my supermarket has (I live in rural Japan), or maybe whatever is cheap at the konbini if I'm on the go.

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cheese_greaterreply
lemmy.world

Are there any tv shows youve seen set in such a locale that authentically represents your life there?

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nord.pub

Not really, especially where it intersects with being a non-Japanese.

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