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Comment on What is a good price for tea? What’s your number? by Sam

Sam — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 05:12:22 +0000

I pay about 3 UK pounds (call it $5) for 100 Twinings English Breakfast bags in the UK. I don’t think this is quite the same as the USA blend. That’s my price-point for regular household tea. Tea in the USA seems to be either far too expensive for a regular everyday drink, or foul.

I’ll happily pay more for something better, but don’t usually have the time to appreciate it.

Comment on Steven Smith – Teamaker by xavier

xavier — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:35:01 +0000

I went to their website and it looks like an interesting company.

Comment on What is a good price for tea? What’s your number? by egoteacompany

egoteacompany — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:46:01 +0000

Chris, you make a good point. Many consumers use the price of low quality tea bags at the local grocery store as the base price to which they compare fine loose tea pricing. However, the two are not the same. This is where there is still a lot of work to be done in showing the consumer that it’s not apples-to-apples.

Comment on Understanding Tie Guan Yin by Guanyin importance | Godubli

Guanyin importance | Godubli — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:11:12 +0000

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Comment on The best modern method for brewing tea by Marlena

Marlena — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:01:44 +0000

I just got a new one and I love it! I just wish it were bigger

Comment on The best rules for tea by Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:10:22 +0000

I don’t know about other rules. But I recommend against drinking any kind of real tea (don’t know about herbal infusions) without food on a empty stomach. You won’t get a stomachache by drinking that cup of puerh on a empty stomach. But you will have a very messed up stomach if you do that for years. I’ve seen it happened before, many times.

Comment on What is a good price for tea? What’s your number? by Chris West

Chris West — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:01:05 +0000

I wonder if you think our teas are expensive? http://www.minrivertea.com

Personally, I think that the price/quality/weight dynamic isn’t made clear enough by tea retailers, or at least, consumers don’t understand it easily. In the UK for example, whole generations have been brought up on the teabag, without even knowing how much tea is in the bag! (it’s around 2g per bag) Plus, the tea is such low quality that it can be sold for £2-3 for 100 bags.

A high quality fresh Chinese tea bought directly in China for example should be about 7g per pot, and cost @£20-30 per half kilo. But you can’t compare that to ‘builders tea’ – it’s like comparing moonshine with fine wine.

Comment on The best modern method for brewing tea by Xavier

Xavier — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:39:30 +0000

Cafetière à piston…
Never thought of using one of these: Interesting.
French Press? For us, it is Italian