Anyone Here Drink Tea?

[Midnyte_Sun]

So is a carafe like a kettle or something?

Its more like a thermos with a dispenser. They look typically like these:

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=914434

The way I typically brew it is really simple, cheap, and good.

Step 1: In your thermal carafe thermos, add a pinch of your favorite spice (cardamom, ginger, mint, coca, etc)

Step 2: Throw inside the desired amount of green tea, no bag, no worries. I use usually about a full table spoon for every 3 cups, yet others I know put way more for the really strong & bitter flavor. If I'm using a tea bag (usually Bigelow Green Tea, you can get a box real cheap at Costco), one tea bag for every 2 cups of tea.

Step 3: Boil the Water, and pour it in the thermal carafe directly onto the mixture of tea leaves, then seal it for 5 minutes.

-- Either drink the tea with the leaves still in your cup, or strain out the tea leaves with every pour, using a miniature tea strainer.

This is really the simplest way I make tea, and I drink it almost everyday, usually 3-5 cups.

If Im in Atlanta again (Im sure I will be) Im gonna try that place.

It was the middle of July when I had it, and it was just...sublime. The food is fantastic also.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Only in the South, tho. Up North they can't do sweet ice tea to save their life.

How far north does 'the south' go? I had good sweet Tea at Lambert's near Branson, MO. They served it in a giant chilled thermos.

 

[bored]

That whole part of the Midwest is kind of a buffer zone between the north and the south.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Sweet Tea at Mary Mac's Tea Room in Atlanta

I think I'll start a tea bucket-list. I've had green tea in Japan, Oolong tea in China, black tea with crumpets in England. Now I need to have Masala Chai in India and Iced Sweet tea in the American South and I'll be set.

 

[Marvolo]

How far north does 'the south' go? I had good sweet Tea at Lambert's near Branson, MO. They served it in a giant chilled thermos.

Im speaking of the North East. The line between North and South blurs somewhat out west.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Im speaking of the North East. The line between North and South blurs somewhat out west.

I think Maryland would be about the farthest north you could get acceptable sweet Iced tea.

 

[Marvolo]

I think Maryland would be about the farthest north you could get acceptable sweet Iced tea.

Agreed. Your chances of finding a good glass of sweet iced tea decreases dramatically as you proceed farther north from Maryland. I know someone from Maryland who sweet iced tea is entirely lost on.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I drink Brisk Lemon Ice Tea. That's my answer.

 

[Marvolo]

Its more like a thermos with a dispenser. They look typically like these:

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=914434

The way I typically brew it is really simple, cheap, and good.

Step 1: In your thermal carafe thermos, add a pinch of your favorite spice (cardamom, ginger, mint, coca, etc)

Step 2: Throw inside the desired amount of green tea, no bag, no worries. I use usually about a full table spoon for every 3 cups, yet others I know put way more for the really strong & bitter flavor. If I'm using a tea bag (usually Bigelow Green Tea, you can get a box real cheap at Costco), one tea bag for every 2 cups of tea.

Step 3: Boil the Water, and pour it in the thermal carafe directly onto the mixture of tea leaves, then seal it for 5 minutes.

-- Either drink the tea with the leaves still in your cup, or strain out the tea leaves with every pour, using a miniature tea strainer.

This is really the simplest way I make tea, and I drink it almost everyday, usually 3-5 cups.





It was the middle of July when I had it, and it was just...sublime. The food is fantastic also.

Ill try it your way, and I hadnt even considered spicing my tea myself. The possibilities are numerous.

 

[craigdbfan]

I love tea. Tea of all kinds.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I love tea. Tea of all kinds.

Cherry flavored tea included?

 

[Silvermoth]

I enjoy a drop of Lemon ice tea every now and then.

 

[spidey44]

I drink Arizona southern style sweet tea almost everyday.

 

[Godzilla2000]

I love to drink tea myself. I put three teaspoons of sugar in it and a bit of flavored creamer to give it more zing.

 

[terry78]

The **** is tea? Is that like coffee?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

I drink tea and infusion tea, usually mint or earl grey.
No sugar, no milk.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

The **** is tea? Is that like coffee?

It's like coffee that tastes good and relaxes you instead of turning you into an anxious pile of nerves.

 

[Duke]

I mainly drink Lipton's, raspberry, or hibiscus tea.

 

[Manic]

Some of you are talking about places to "get" sweet tea. Like, already made and served to you? The hell is that about? I grew up making my own sweet tea. You Southerners, I swear.

 

[Marvolo]

Some of you are talking about places to "get" sweet tea. Like, already made and served to you? The hell is that about? I grew up making my own sweet tea. You Southerners, I swear.

I make my own sweet tea too, but they are referring to restaurants that serve sweet tea. Have you never had sweet tea at a restaurant? That's kind of odd.

 

[enterthemadness]

*BREAKS THROUGH DOOR*

only one tea, and that is sweet tea. Like at Burger King. Damn, so much sugar/HFCS in it!

*Leaves*

 

[enterthemadness]

Some of you are talking about places to "get" sweet tea. Like, already made and served to you? The hell is that about? I grew up making my own sweet tea. You Southerners, I swear.

My niece made sweet tea that was stronger than the one at Burger King, which already has like a thick taste to it. Too much sugar in hers.

McDonald's sweet tea is weak now.

 

[Marvolo]

My niece made sweet tea that was stronger than the one at Burger King, which already has like a thick taste to it. Too much sugar in hers.

McDonald's sweet tea is weak now.

Have you ever seen how McDonald's
makes their sweet tea? They put ice in the tea dispenser! It melts and waters down the tea. Dumbasses.

 

[Manic]

I make my own sweet tea too, but they are referring to restaurants that serve sweet tea. Have you never had sweet tea at a restaurant? That's kind of odd.

No, I usually try to make my own sweet tea. I never get it from fast food restaurants because the dispensers they put it in usually keep drinks at room temperature, and most other restaurants I've been to carry stuff like Brisk and NesTea (which can hardly be said to taste like any sort of tea at all).

When I want sweet tea, I brew my own.

 

[enterthemadness]

Have you ever seen how McDonald's
makes their sweet tea? They put ice in the tea dispenser! It melts and waters down the tea. Dumbasses.

No, I um, do no work there. It used to taste better.