Yorkshire tea = Behringer.
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Ha, yes! I only use pu’erh in my teapot and my partner only uses Oolong. Just not to my taste.
I’ve only tried these
I have no idea it is raw or ripe… but I like it alot
Tru dat. Twinings must be Naim then and Liptons something like Audiolab.
All these poncey AA types with their fermented in Kali’s cleavage organic Indian tea or dried in Confusius’s butt-crack Chinese tea must be Steepletone aficionados.
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Raw will be green and as it ages it goes darker until brown. Ripe will speed this process up so will be dark right away. I have no idea on that one either. Just try both anyway. Maybe I liked raw better as I already drank green tea. The ripe is trying to give you aged raw tea without the age and I’m not a fan.
Please tell me where you have seen this for sale!
I have a load in the shed. It is a tad yellowish for some reason (
) but don’t let that put you off. £50 for an eighth??
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NVA?
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LOL
The beer policeman has started a new thread 
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Silver Tips Imperial Tea, file next to Kopi luwak coffee - Disappointing
Cornish tea, for that reassuringly expensive taste. Not a bad brew mind.
All teas brewed at the same temperature taste the same according to Serge.
I used to go to China a lot and on one of the trips I went to Hangzhou and got some Longjing (Dragon Well) tea from the actual plantation. I went at this time of the year too when the best tea is picked - early spring shoots are the sweetest - and still have a couple of tins in the kitchen. Madly expensive but it is good and one pinch will make several cups. It is probably past its best now but after picking it is heated in a special pan and rubbed around it by hand which stops it going off. I might have a cup this morning and see if it is still good…
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Warning, long tedious story.
I don’t like coffee, OK the small is nice, but I tried hard to like it when I was impressionable and wanted to be trendy 50 years ago but it is horrid.
One day I arrived at Brands Hatch for a test after a very early start and a drive through London - A4 Vauxhall Bridge A2 and A20 (the M25 didn’t exist yet) knackered and bursting for a cuppa.
Our truckie (back then the truckie dealt with food, hotels and hire cars at tests as well as transport, spares and fuel, a Team manager and multiple secretaries seem to be needed nowadays) had bought some different tea bags, 'cause they were in a green box that matched the (then) Williams Green/white colour scheme.
My cuppa was abso-fucking-lutely fantastic but I was suspicious it was because of the early start/long drive. Anyway subsequent cups of tea were equally to my taste so the tea, Brooke Bond Choicest Blend (BBCB) became my tea of choice.
On my travels, and curiosity, I have tried loads of different tea, and have loads I brought back from China but I enjoy them rarely since whenever I feel like a cuppa it is usually a refreshing Assam I crave.
A few years ago our local supermarket stopped selling BBCB loose tea 
that is when I discovered Ocado, since a search showed they stocked it. Later they stopped too and I had to get it from the maker which was a pain, so I tried loads to get a near equivalent. Rington’s Deluxe Extra-Fresh (RDEF) is it!
The truckie, a brilliant ex-RAF guy known by everybody in F1 as Biggles (there were probably fewer people in the whole F1 paddock then that Ferrari have in their aero dept now) sadly died of cancer in 1990, probably since as the fuel man he handled the turbo fuel, which was 75% toluene.
Anyway, I recommend RDEF to anybody enjoying a full bodied refreshing brew over one of the poncy weak cups of piss substitute.
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Ringtons indeed!
If I’m travelling anywhere I usually take a few of their tea bags with me.
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we had some of that at Christmas, nice tea…
When traveling through Thailand, I tend to buy a fuck-ton of Jasmine tea from a family supplier in Chiang Rai. This is then supplemented by Lapsang Souchong from a Wallingford coffee/tea specialist. Usually blended in a teapot 50/50.
Gert lush.
I had real weird experience in Chaing Rai once
It’s easy to do. That’s why we are retiring there 
Not really a tea head but enjoy the odd one , been buying teapigs fairly regularly …