Lately, I've switched from coffee to a nice, soothing cup of tea.
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Edit: pu'er, black, green, white tea. Love it all and drink it more than I drink coffee. No need to start a culture war; taste is as individual as humour.
As a caffeine addict, I prefer black tea because it has a shitload of caffeine in it, but makes me less jittery than coffee. However, coffee just tastes better. So I just drink both, consecutively.
I tried switching to black tea a couple of years ago because I realized that coffee was making my anxiety worse, but fucking hell did tea give me the jitters. I think I just have a bad reaction to tannins in general and apparently black tea is super high in them.
It makes you less jittery because it does not, in fact, have a lot of caffeine in it.
Depends on the tea and I tend to make mine very strong
I thought tea had way less caffeine than coffee.
Checked and on average black tea seems to be about half. It can get "up to" what a normal cup of coffee has.
This green tea I'm sipping made my mind sufficiently relaxed and agile to see that punchline coming from a mile away.
Black tea to me feels like the sledgehammer, whereas coffee is this smooth slightly syrupy beverage, that feels much more delicate. Case in point for me, I prefer my coffee black, but I would have a hard time handling a cup of tea without at least a bit of oat milk.
I don't know where tea gets this "gentle" PR from but I find it highly dishonest and honestly I'm tired of keeping my mouth shut about it so there now I've said it
Hey it's okay, your opinion is valid, no matter how objectively wrong it is :)
Thank you, no one has ever accused me of looking at a situation objectively and I'm not about to start now, anyway now everyone sign my petition to put warning labels on tea
Don't hold back! Tell Big Tea what you think!
(I personally like Green Tea and lighter varieties but I have to be... in the mood. I'm always in the mood for coffee on the other hand.)
There's stimulating tea too.
Since I switched to shroom tea in the morning, I’ve been much more perceptive.
Hey, my DMTea is also great for that!
Tea is stimulating. All kinds of tea have caffeine in it. (As long as we're taking about camellia sinensis, the tea plant, and not something like herbal tea.)
Fucked up how the British originally swapped in tea for their beer common at every meal. I would have been pissed
What's wrong with having a beer with your tea?
What's this now?
I enjoy tea, but I like coffee more for most situations. Im more likely to enjoy an evening cup of tea than a morning one. Also the tannins in black tea can make me literally throw up if I havent eaten yet. Whereas a strong cup of coffee will make my digestive tract relax.
Black tea has more caffeine, but you can get pretty close to that with light roast coffee. Dark roast is weaker but sold as "strong" because of the bitter ass flavor profile. Light roast tastes much better, even tea like and has more oomph.
Light roasts taste different, not necessarily better, and dark roasts aren't necessarily excessively bitter. And the difference in caffeine due to roasting level is minimal, it is much more affected by type of bean and how it's handled before roasting.
It all comes down to what you want from your coffee...if you want floral and fruity with higher acidity, go for the lighter roasts. If you want chocolate, caramel and nuts with lower acidity, go for the darker roasts. I personally dislike the floral profile of many lighter roasts, it gets a bit "soapy" IMO, which is the same issue I have with most tea.
Dark roast in America almost always equates to a burnt arabica flavor. There can be good dark roasts, but you tend to have to go specialist coffee to get them.
I dont know much about coffee but I stopped drinking alcohol lately and I was afraid of missing the taste part of drinking (the nice taste of a good whine or beer). Coffee doesn't have the same depth - or at least I didn't explore it yet. Then I discovered tea and all its variety. Tea have been around for thousand of years, which means there's a lot of variety and different process per regions. There's even tea you can age, with millesime, for extra-fancy.
It's just that teabags just aren't good. They crush the whole tea plant using machines. Kinda like instant coffee just isn't that good most of the time.
I don't really drink, but my family loves a little bit of a drink. When my partner and I go for dinner at my parents now my Mum always has some non-alcoholic wine/champagne/cooler for me and it's nice for when I want a flavoured drink that's cold and isn't soda water or really sweet. She also had been liking it for nights with friends where she still wants the taste of another glass of wine, but not more alcohol.
But also, a total tea snob who agrees with you on tea bags being terrible.
Now I still have a sweetspot for the barry's ones they taste in ireland, for sentimental reasons :3
Yeah, I've tried to switch a few times. Tea literally does nothing for me.
I'm trying to cut out coffee and tea is one of my weaknesses. So soothing...
But the whole point for me is to avoid caffeine entirely, so resist I must. And if I may quote the comic,
IT FUCKING SUCKS
There are plenty of "teas" (other infusions) which don't have caffeine. I swapped out black tea for rooibos, it's not exactly similar but it hits the spot.
If you are Caffeine Sensitive, and Like Coffee...
There are a few brands out there that make a really good Decaf Coffee and some roasters and Coffee Suppliers are actually giving more of a shit about their Decaf offerings. It does get a little pricier per bag of beans, but - might be worth shopping around if you have some independent shops/roasters around you.
Have you found a non caffeinated alternative? Also weaning yourself off caffeine works so much better.
So I've been told, but I've always done best with brutish force. I'm very habitual, so I don't want to put myself into a position where I may end up drinking more coffee.
I had a sip of some non-caffeinated coffee once and it tasted bleh so I haven't bothered looking for alternatives. I'd rather play mental gymnastics in my own gym, if that makes sense.
There are decaf black teas if you want that. Or plenty of herbals.
I avoid stuff with hibiscus, which limits the herbals I can drink since it's so prolific, but there are plenty of them.
I thought it would be awful but I briefly had to cut caffeine to check if it was a trigger for something and I got a bag of loose-leaf decaf earl grey and it was absolutely fine which was encouraging (and good that i could tell my Dad now that he has had to cut it for the forseeable future).
Iced tea with lemon all day everyday
They're clearly drinking the wrong kind of tea.
Gotta have that first cup of coffee in the morning to wake up. Without it I feel sluggish and headachy all day - partly due to the dependence on the caffeine. Also i drink Diet Coke in the afternoon and evening, and without it I get pounding headaches. My general doctor recommended caffeine to help with migraines.
I do like tea, though - I've got peppermint tea on hand for soothing my various gastric problems. But it just doesn't work as a hot drink for me first thing in the morning.
Getting rid of coffee is amazing. It's the best feeling there is. You'll get amazing clarity and just about everything is better.
That's why I do it several times a year.
/s btw, it's a saying as in "you are beyond the ability of mere humans to save you":-P