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You could use the infusions in cocktails, smoothies and sweetened iced teas, or possibly food recipes but it probably won’t be salvageable for pure tea drinking purposes. This cocktail is quite tasty
1 part ginger beer or ginger-ale
1 part tea
1 shot alcoholThe tea flavor will mainly be masked by the other ingredients, but it will still be there. This recipe works best with more oxidized tea, but perhaps it could work for an oolong variety.
I would never recommend using tea in alcoholic beverages but in the case of tea going bad it might be worth a shot.
Thanks CHAWANG, I have found much better greens in my recent tea exploration, and especially lovely oolongs and whites as well. I think I just don’t like Japanese green tea (Sencha and Gyokuro are too light for my tastes), and the one Chinese tea on my list, gunpowder, I find too smoky for my taste. I really enjoy dragonwell and pretty much all of the different preparations of Tienguanyin I’ve tried. Does this give you a sense of the type of flavors I like.
“my mislead conception of what green is” I never said what green tea is? I said I love whole leaf Dragonwell. You don’t think that is real green tea? Never heard of someone being that opposed to dragonwell before.
Here is a picture of the China Green Tips leaves.The tea I listed above was stored in air tight, opaque, aluminum canisters at Wegmans. I have now tried Wegmans’s dragonwell and I like it much much better than the China Green tips. I think I just don’t like gunpowder and prefer the Chinese green teas to japanese ones.
I really enjoyed the three white teas I have tried. White Peony, silver needle, and snowbud were all amazing.
If you do a search for quick for “Quick Gongfu” on ebay you will get some reasonable alternatives. Not quite as beautiful though.
The pot you linked to, would your hands burn holding it? If it’s ceramic and has no handle, how do you pick it up without burning your hands?
As for the tea not moving around in that area. It moves around as much as in a smallish infuser, but not as much as it would in that lovely all in one piece you linked to. Too bad all 3 of those all in one pieces are sold out.
