The benefits and glories and intimations of wonder from the former have worn off long ago and have turned into shackles keeping me in a state of drudgery and complacency.I’m now looking into the vast world of teas and have my eyes set on the highly touted earl grey which contains the essential oil of the bergamot to bring me to the sublime contemplative state.What say you?
>>21098652I enjoy a nice sweet tea Bourbon on a hot afternoon.
>>21098652Bergamot oil is a photochemical, do not rub it on your skin and expose it to UV (sun, some office lights, concert lights)Same goes for genuine earl grey, don't bathe in it.
>>21098652>I hereby renounce alcohol in favor of tea consumption!that's what's up.
>>21098674I just bathe in Dettol
https://youtu.be/iaAT6-dY1QI
>>21098652>>21098674Bergamot will also lower your potassium. Bad choice.Drink green tea, the antioxidants will undo some of the premature aging caused by alcohol.
>>21099011I also drink hot cocoa and that has plenty of potassium. Maybe it balances things out.
>>21098652>earl greydon't bother with teabags or any of that low quality perfumed tea dust, it's all genuinely crap. embrace chinese loose leaf tea. the chinese have had a tea fetish for centuries; they make all the good stuff. 90% of my tea consumption is young raw puer nowadays (from farmer leaf) with the other 10% being white tea and green tea for when i want something sweet and gentle.
>>21098652>renouncing poor liver health but less stress for sleepless nights, depression, shakes, and heart palpitations
>>21098652https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcPMDjkzeOo
>>21098652Tea is ass and I'm done gaslighting myself into thinking it's not.Drink either diet soda or coffee, and if you have issues with either than just go with water.
>>21099100>Tea is asswhat kind? there's a lot of ass tea out there, you just have to buy the non ass tea
>>21099059>a cup of tea hits him like 12 gallons of espressoLol, what an utter faggot
>>21099100>diet soda Good b8 otherwise
>>21099011I’ve had green tea and I’m not a fan. And yes I know not to boil the water.
>>21098652Ok but just don’t start doing 4 or 5 cups of tea a day because you’re going to get disgusted by the taste eventually.
>>210992361 cup of tea = 1 drinkI just assumed this meant was going to be drinking 2-3 cups a day
>>21098652sounds really fucking gayyou're going to have to tread that road alone, faggot
>>21099305And here I was thinking /CK/ had my back.
>>21099351I got your back broski. I condone the patronage of Bigelow Tea and for that matter Earl Grey as well.
>>21098652I've been drinking tea daily after I got an electric kettle recently. I've been using a few boxes of tea from family that never used them, they're a few years old though.
>>21098652I drink nothing but chinese tea in the morning (fuck seaweed water) and nothing but beer in the eveningTwo glasses of water with lunch. Moderation.
>>21099396thanks. Bigelow’s iconic.
>>21099233I was being a bit hyperbolic. I still like stuff like chai/matcha/London fog lattes and bubble tea type stuff so I'm not like against the flavor itself but just basic tea that's just hot water + teabag + cream/sugar is just not interesting enough for me to be worth it desu. I've also always drank tea when I've been sick so after a point I also started associating it with being sick which kinda killed the experience too.
>>21098652Enjoy the extra flouride.
>>21099678>teabagTeabags are indeed ass. Buy quality loose leaf if you want to drink a quality beverage. Judging all of tea based on your experience with teabags is like judging a dish based off of a tv dinner version of that dish.
>>21100066but anon what's the diph?
>>21100068Spaghetti and meatballs
>>21100077>buy loose leaf tea>buy the same loose leaf tea that's been distributed into little pouches prior to shippingI don't believe there's much difference
>>21100089>the same loose leaf tea that's been distributed into little pouchesIt's not.>I don't believeYour belief is wrong.
>>21098652Coffee bro
>>21100205why wouldn't it be? are you telling me that I get different tea in each of these purchases?
>>21100210In that case yeah it's probably the same, that's why I specified "quality loose leaf" in my first post. Some people tout Harney and Sons as a step up from the normal grocery store stuff, but I've never had it so I can't back that up. I buy my stuff from China. Buy this if you really want to get in to the good stuff:https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/samplers/products/first-steps-tea-samplerBut if you just want something to dump milk and sugar into then it's probably not worth buying anything besides teabags. Good tea is best enjoyed by itself and the cheap bagged stuff w/milk+sugar is pretty much a different beverage entirely.
>>21098652Enjoy fluoride
>>21100219I don't use milk or sugar but I've never really "gotten into" tea. Maybe I'll go to one of those proper boutique tea shops and get some fancy oolong or something just to try. I'll need to purchase a tea strainer but those are like $2 I guess.
>>21100224I have my own well.
>>21100228>Maybe I'll go to one of those proper boutique tea shops and get some fancy oolong or something just to try.You should do it, visiting a local tea shop looking for something to replace whiskey is how I got into tea. There's probably a lot more depth and variety to tea than you think.A lot of what those shops sell (around me at least) is tea with flavors added, I'd recommend staying away from that stuff.The best leaves don't go towards flavored tea, the good stuff is plenty good on it's own.I would also recommend a strainer like picrel over one of the ball ones, they let the tea leaves open up fully and infuse better. Still only $15 and I've been using mine for years.
>>21098652Quitting alcohol is so fucking hard. It turned me into a reclusive anxious creep, I'm a wreck. Put on 100 lbs, I have chronic health problems, my depressive antics have pushed away my friends & family. I keep trying to quit, I go a day or two without it then I'm just compelled to numb myself again when put up against how shit my life is.How did you do it? How did you kick the booze? I'm not going to meetings, fuck that.
>>21099351/ck/ doesn't agree on anything
>>21098652Very basedTYBG
>>21101393>TYBGthank you baby girl?
>>21100271Not the OP here, but I quit after things got so bad that I couldn't hide being an alcoholic from anyone. I was constantly hungover and had awful skin and was shaking all the time, spewing every morning, couldn't save any money. The first ~3 days of going cold turkey are the worst, but I'd done it that many times that knowing how good I'll feel on that 4th or 5th day was worth itHerbal teas probably helped more than actual tea-teas. Damiana and mugwort in particular are really calming and can help fight cravings for alcohol and nicotine
>>21100271Get your doctor to prescribe Naltrexone and Gabapentin, once you have that there is no excuse other then your will power.
>>21100271Like other Anon said. You need something to prevent DTs because they can sometimes be fatal and you just have to say no. Sadly you're an addict and you cannot have any amount of alcohol ever again. That's it. Sorry.
>>21099051Sounds nice, but how much of an investment/pain in the ass is this?Teabags are convenient.Having some extra trinket to wash isn't.
>>21100271I drastically curved my drinking (gradually) since COVID. It started with not going to bars anymore.Eventually I just got bored of drinking by myself. It doesn't do much for me and just makes me feel like shit the next day.IDK what to do with myself besides work though. IDK where or how to meet people without alcohol.
>>21102165>Teabags are convenient.>Having some extra trinket to wash isn't.Assuming that you're already washing your mug after you finish your tea, it takes maybe 30 more seconds to wash the infuser as well.
>>21098652I drink Matcha tea everyday, twice a day.
>>21098652The only right way to drink tea is with a straw.
>>21099396>>21099657>bigelowI used to drink these at work but it got kinda ridiculous that it would oversteep in the one minute trip from the kitchen to my desk. Bag tea in general almost turned me off from tea what with how often they'd add too much filler to lower the cost or weird oils to make it smell more marketable. I found a few bagged herbal teas I could enjoy, but my enjoyment of tea improved a lot more when I swapped to loose leaf
>>21102165Literally no investment or effort to start. I got into it a couple months ago. I buy tea from yunan sourcing (people say it sucks but I don't know anything better yet). It comes to my door, I bring water to barely boil in a regular stove pot, I add a tbs or two of the leaf to my cup, add water, steep 3-5min, then strain leaf by just holding up a fork and pouring slow. Literally no need for all the other doohickeys if youre just starting, its just leaves in hot water.
>>21105960>yunan sourcing (people say it sucksyunnan sourcing is fine. I've gotten some meh reds and oolongs from there, but two of their greens really surprised me the other day. They tasted pretty much as good as the $0.50/g green I usually buy for like half the price. Their white/red blend cake is also pretty nice.
>>21105960>yunan sourcing (people say it sucks but I don't know anything better yet)My understanding is that people say this because:1) They raise the prices of their raw puer every year by a ridiculous percentage. Other vendors don't do this, so some of their aged puer is ridiculously overpriced. For a couple examples, search both YS and kingteamall for Changtai 65 and YiPinTang "Yi Wu Zhi Chun".2) They have a wide selection, which I think has it's pros, but it also means that they have a lot of mediocre tea. And then the good tea that they have typically isn't exceptional- if you want the really good stuff you want a vendor that specializes in one type of tea.So I think YS is good for sampling a wide variety of teas (which is especially important when you first start drinking tea). If you find something you really like from YS then you can look for a vendor that specializes in that kind of tea and probably find something even better... but at the same time, if you sample something from YS and don't like it, well, it may be because that tea just isn't very good and doesn't accurately represent that kind of tea.I'll add that I think they have good heicha at pretty good prices so that it doesn't sound like I'm trying to shit all over YS. IMO they have both good and bad, price and quality wise.
>>21102170Start going to the gym, play tennis, hike, if you play music, do that. Booze robs us of life's simple pleasures because you're too wrecked to do anything but drink more. Look to what you enjoyed doing before booze and do that. I quit for 8 months, been back on for 2, in a very limited capacity and I'm taking another break. Back when I lived in the city, I'd at least get laid, now it's just crippling hangovers, wasted time and money. Good luck, Anon.
OP here. It’s bitterly cold and the wind’s howling and these conditions will continue for the next week or so. Went out and got a bottle of tito’s on that account.
>>21107952baka buy white tea instead, some of the cheaper leafy stuff, sweet and cozy, great for the cold. in fact that's what i'm gonna go drink right now.
>>21107961>white teaHad black, had green, but never had white but I’ve heard about it.
