The Best Brew I Know

I love tea. I could drink tea, buy tea, study tea, make tea and talk about tea all day long - trust me, it's no exaggeration. Unlike coffee I can drink tea incessantly, as I find it lighter and more refreshing. Coffee is still a vice of mine, but I find its richness and artistic finesse needs to be appreciated in small, albeit daily doses. Coffee tends to be a 'going-out' drink, because it's usually difficult to find cafes that do tea well (unless you live in Bristol, because Bristol cafes ROCK at making tea!) or a mid-morning drink to push through with studying or reading. Tea, on the other hand, is the first thing I taste every morning - it's a 'wake-up' drink, a lunch time drink, an late afternoon drink and a 'just before I go to bed' drink. My favourite everyday tea is Jackson's of Piccadilly English Breakfast Tea, because it's fair-trade and the packaging is snazzy. I'm also a massive fan of herbal tea, namely white tea, lemon and ginger, mint tea and Boston berry tea. For a special treat I might buy myself some lady grey because it's just the most refreshing, lady-like and zingy tasting drink on the planet. However, my go-to tea, the one I can guarantee will taste good, smell good and do me good, is what my family like to call 'a mixture'. Basically it's 2 English Breakfast or Assam tea bags to one Earl Grey tea bag, brewed together in a tea pot for approx. 4 minutes, then add a dash of milk and pour into your prettiest tea cup - it's perfect for people who love strong tea, but want something a bit lighter tasting for the afternoon. I would highly recommend it for lonely tea-times but it's also a real hit in the ole' social sphere as well. So, happy brewing! If you try it for the first time, please let me know what you think!


2 comments :

  1. Really, you mix them together? never heard of that, but I'll certainly try it and then tell you how it tasted ;-)
    and thanks so much for your sweet comment!

    xxx Anita

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love tea too! My housemate last year introduced me to a mix of regular English breakfast and either earl grey or redbush - really nice. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a creature of habit so often will choose normal tea over other stranger types when i go out...as I really don't want to not like a cup of tea! Need to be more adventurous I feel.

    Have you got a favourite type of coffee? Totally agree that coffee's not an all day kind of drink like tea is - I feel like a good coffee can be like a mini snack all by itself, especially when there's a lot of milk involved!

    ReplyDelete