Coffee or Tea?

[Carbon 6]

Good is good, .

Yep!

Good is also what you are use to.

 

[Artie Peltier]

Tea, no milk or cream. Sometimes raw honey to sweeten.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Tea, no milk or cream. Sometimes raw honey to sweeten.

OH The Humanity!

Tea, properly aged and blended Darleeling with Ceylon, and perhaps some lavender, brewed loose, so that the flavor is not contaminated with the taste of the paper or linen bag. Steeped and not bounced up and down. Poured, and then with with the proper amount of milk and sugar added. Served at 4 p.m.

"Being in the wilderness does not mean one must behave as a savage...."



LD

 

[tenngun]

Well IF one would call an unmalted, emmer wheat based beverage, using a top fermenting yeast, and without hops "beer"...then I guess so....sure wouldn't pass the Reinheitsgebot law.

LD

Reinheitsegbot law had not yet been written. And if it had the Egyptians had yet not learned to read German. Both Germans and Egyptians were late to the beer field. Antolilians makeng beer a few thousand years befor Egyptians got around to inventing their written language and Mesopotamians useing barley sometime before they could jot a note down. Mesoamericans would make corn beer, and God only knows what manure we cooked up in the torpedo room one Christmas at sea.
The captain let us pass out one 8 oz cup to everyone onboard. I don’t recall if any one drank it all.

 

[Carbon 6]

Tea ? One lump please.

 

[Nyckname]

Tea ? One lump please.

Anyway, I buy gunpowder tea by the kilo, and really need to look into what dangerous levels of consumption are. On the news a while back, there was a report of a guy dying of kidney failure because he drank two to three gallons of iced tea a day. I hope I'm safe at two to three quarts a day.

 

[Carbon 6]

I knew a guy who drank a lot of iced tea, he wound up in the hospital with kidney stones, Doc said it was from drinking iced tea.

 

[Eutycus]

Thats what they told my brother-in -law. The stones were the result of too much tea. Never did hear how much is too much though.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Reinheitsegbot law had not yet been written. And if it had the Egyptians had yet not learned to read German. Both Germans and Egyptians were late to the beer field. Antolilians makeng beer a few thousand years befor Egyptians got around to inventing their written language and Mesopotamians useing barley sometime before they could jot a note down. Mesoamericans would make corn beer

Yes, I'm joking with the fact that the archaeologists are using the relatively modern (compared to Ancient Egypt) term "beer" for a fermented grain beverage with top fermenting yeast and no hops. I think we really should be calling what they have been experimenting with by its Egyptian name, heqet or bousa, and not confusing it with what we labeled "beer" from the 16th century, onward to today. Seems to me rather arrogant and lackadaisical on our part....

LD

 

[tenngun]

Yes, I'm joking with the fact that the archaeologists are using the relatively modern (compared to Ancient Egypt) term "beer" for a fermented grain beverage with top fermenting yeast and no hops. I think we really should be calling what they have been experimenting with by its Egyptian name, heqet or bousa, and not confusing it with what we labeled "beer" from the 16th century, onward to today. Seems to me rather arrogant and lackadaisical on our part....

LD

Knew you were joking my answer was tongue in cheek

 

[Carbon 6]

I think we really should be calling what they have been experimenting with by its Egyptian name, heqet or bousa, and not confusing it with what we labeled "beer" from the 16th century, onward to today. Seems to me rather arrogant and lackadaisical on our part....

LD

"speaking to their audience"

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Knew you were joking my answer was tongue in cheek

OH..., LOL....
We used to have a head-slap emoji.....sure could've used that one right now.....hahahaa

LD

 

[Greg Starr]

Just make sure your coffee or tea isn't over 140 degrees fahrenheit when you drink it. If you do it increases your chance or throat/esophogeal cancer by 50% or more.

 

[Carbon 6]

I throw 2 ice cubes in every cup.

 

[Cruzatte]

So folks is it coffee or hot tea on cold winters morning? I'm a Earl Grey hot tea guy myself.

Fresh roasted coffee for me, made over the campfire in my good ol' tin cup.

 

[Bledfor Days]

Tim Hortons coffee in town. Bovril in the bush or at a soccer match in the UK.

 

[Rifleman1776]

I often saw large hunks of a compressed tea being sold at rendezvous by vendors. Noting the country of origin I never trusted it to be clean and free of nasty 'extras'. Anybody here know much about this stuff? Just curious.

 

[rickpa]

Lapsang Souchow for me, with sugar. I first heard about it when I read Michener's Centennial. Has a smoky flavor, have to find a specialty tea shop to buy it. Not very common. Also like Earl Grey.

 

[Carbon 6]

Celestial seasonings makes some very tasty teas.
Cameron's also has bulk teas, some are excellent. Found in many grocery stores.

Coffee I buy green from a local roaster and roast it myself. Makes the best coffee.

Once you roast your own coffee and drink it over time you quickly realize how fast the flavor diminishes. Roasted beans last a month tops and once you grind it the water better be warming. That clock runs out very fast.

 

[Nyckname]

I often saw large hunks of a compressed tea being sold at rendezvous by vendors. Noting the country of origin I never trusted it to be clean and free of nasty 'extras'. Anybody here know much about this stuff? Just curious.

Just say the country.