Sipdown (291)
Today’s #septembersipdown prompt is about making a pot to share. Personally, I don’t live with tea drinkers and I don’t usually drink from a pot, however, I pulled out my mini pot for this prompt. I couldn’t convince someone to share though so I am drinking the pot by myself. Oh well.
When deciding what to make, the bottom of the pot said to use your favorite English tea and enjoy it in the English teaware. I don’t have any English Breakfast blends but I do have this tea which is an Earl Grey (which I associate with England – though that might be incorrect) from an English tea company. Good enough!
This tea was a free sample in my last Bird and Blend order. It was not something I have been enthused about so I figured why not just have it and it be done. So, I tossed the tea bag into my teapot and got to brewing. Of course while pouring the water, I managed to not catch the tag on the end of the string before it fell into the pot and then I had to fish it out. I also might have spilled both while pouring into and out of the teapot. Like I said, I don’t use a pot often.
I added milk to the glass since I thought a earl grey would need it. It does. The bergamot is strong but calmed slightly by the milk. It’s not bad this way. And I kept topping up the glass with the tea from the pot as a drank so it got less milky as I drank. It was still tolerable even as the milk:tea ratio got closer. Overall, I think maybe it is decent. I just don’t think its for me.
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I know the feeling! I used to live in a house full of tea drinkers, which made it super easy to use up teas I didn’t prefer. Now it’s just me, and sometimes it builds up.
Same here. I don’t have anyone to share tea with either, though I do occasionally foist teas I don’t like on my parents.
Yeah, whenever I fly home for the holidays, my luggage is always filled with tea in dozens of little foil packets, which I’m sure the TSA doesn’t find suspicious at all.
We used to drink a lots of tea, usually a pot for the evening, but recently it is that everyone makes a juice or something fast and simple. And cold! I hope every fall it will change again, but not that much, unfortunately!
I live alone and don’t have any local tea-drinking friends to share with, either. This is why it takes me EONS to sipdown my mountains of tea… just too much in here for one person!
I think this is why I am always happy for the chance to share tea. My sister has gotten into the habit of occasionally grabbing my mug and trying it so maybe with time she will get into it too.
I know the feeling! I used to live in a house full of tea drinkers, which made it super easy to use up teas I didn’t prefer. Now it’s just me, and sometimes it builds up.
Same here. I don’t have anyone to share tea with either, though I do occasionally foist teas I don’t like on my parents.
Yeah, whenever I fly home for the holidays, my luggage is always filled with tea in dozens of little foil packets, which I’m sure the TSA doesn’t find suspicious at all.
We used to drink a lots of tea, usually a pot for the evening, but recently it is that everyone makes a juice or something fast and simple. And cold! I hope every fall it will change again, but not that much, unfortunately!
I live alone and don’t have any local tea-drinking friends to share with, either. This is why it takes me EONS to sipdown my mountains of tea… just too much in here for one person!
I think this is why I am always happy for the chance to share tea. My sister has gotten into the habit of occasionally grabbing my mug and trying it so maybe with time she will get into it too.