cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60110382

Unless I’m just going crazy, whenever I drink tea outside it has a slight aftertaste that I never get when I drink it elsewhere.
Edit to add, it has more taste, if that makes sense. It has a more complex taste.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Being Northern Irish, I was raised on tea and drink 8 to 10 cups a day. Can’t say I’ve ever noticed this. Where it is imbibed has no influence on the taste of it.

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      As an American who wasn’t ever raised on tea of any kind (and I don’t like coffee) but is starting to really learn to love teas and tasanes (I’m open to suggestions, by the way!), I have to ask: how the hell do you manage to drink 8–10 cups per day without dying of dehydration? If I drink more than 3 cups a day I start to really feel dried out!

      • entwine413@lemm.ee
        13·
        2 days ago

        Caffeinated beverages don’t dehydrate you. Yes, caffeine has a mild diruetic effect, but it’s nowhere near enough to cancel out the water in the drink.

        • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          To be fair, although admittedly a nitpick, I will say I never said that the caffeine dehydrated you, just that the teas and tisanes do, the latter of which may or may not have caffeine.

          That being said, I looked it up and yeah you’re right. The evidence does seem to demonstrate that the diuretic effect of the caffeine in teas not substantial enough to really affect hydration levels.

          However, it does lead me to wonder why my body seems to dehydrate if I drink more 2 cups of tea in a day. Like, it doesn’t cause me to pee more (at least not more than an equivalent amount of straight water would cause me to pee); my body just dries out.

      • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        Raised on tea. Elixir of the gods. And the water in it is still water. I’m well hydrated.

        For suggestions, a good standard daily tea is Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew (it has malt in the brew so tastes like Rich Tea biscuits), and good Northern Irish teas are Punjana and Nambarrie.