[Pudu]

Have you tried rooibos espresso? When I lived in Windhoek it was all the rage in the coffee houses.

 

[Nixon]

Have a chinese supermarket about 10 minutes away from me so I can buy so much chinese tea. 

Had a fun incident with it when I started Uni. We had a surprise inspection after my neighbour was found dealing drugs. Took quite a while to convince them my shelf full of dried leaves was in fact tea and not drugs. 

 

[El_Doug]

how does it work?  from the picture, it looks like you simply put pure roobios into the portafilter?  or do you mix it with coffee?  looks like something i'd want to try out on my machine! 
 
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Have you tried rooibos espresso? When I lived in Windhoek it was all the rage in the coffee houses.

 

[wolfetan44]

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how does it work?  from the picture, it looks like you simply put pure roobios into the portafilter?  or do you mix it with coffee?  looks like something i'd want to try out on my machine! 
 
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Have you tried rooibos espresso? When I lived in Windhoek it was all the rage in the coffee houses.

What machine? And I'm guessing its like any ordaniry tea.

 

[Nikkihasclaws]

Rooibos espresso is made by putting rooibos into a pressurized "espresso" portafilter. If you use a traditional espresso portafilter the rooibos won't make enough resistance to the water to work properly and it will underextract.
 
also I think if rooibos counts as tea then coffee is tea too xD

 

[Urbex Girl]

Dragon Oolong , say no more!!!
 

 

[Silent One]

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Rooibos espresso is made by putting rooibos into a pressurized "espresso" portafilter. If you use a traditional espresso portafilter the rooibos won't make enough resistance to the water to work properly and it will underextract.
 
also I think if rooibos counts as tea then coffee is tea too xD

Actually, rooibos ("red bush") is not tea, in nickname only. Does not originate from the tea plant, but rather a shrub like bush in South Africa from the legume family.

 

[Nikkihasclaws]

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Actually, rooibos ("red bush") is not tea, in nickname only. Does not originate from the tea plant, but rather a shrub like bush in South Africa from the legume family.

That's what I was getting at when I said that if rooibos counts as tea then coffee is tea too

 

[Silent One]

Yes. My aim was at the general readership...thanks for the platform.

 Maybe I should enhance my signature to read: "Waiting in the dark...for tea."

 

[Nikkihasclaws]

I'm drinking tea in hi-fi tonight
 
2003 Tai Lian Yiwu brick brewed in a 50ml zini yixing clay pot and served in a 70ml jing de zhen porcelain cup

 

[IcedTea]

Is there a big difference between clay and ceramic? 
 
I need a new teapot lol

 

[Pudu]

Usually ceramic is fired clay.

 

[Urbex Girl]

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I'm drinking tea in hi-fi tonight
 
2003 Tai Lian Yiwu brick brewed in a 50ml zini yixing clay pot and served in a 70ml jing de zhen porcelain cup

what she said?  ehmm... bless you Nikki lol

 

[daigo]

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Usually ceramic is fired clay.

 
Clay is also porous so it picks up and keeps a flavor patina of the tea you brew.  With something like a yixing clay tea pot, you pretty much want to only brew one type of tea in it, and let it develop that residual tea flavor after many uses.  They are definitely fragile though.

 

[Nikkihasclaws]

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what she said?  ehmm... bless you Nikki lol

lol baby
 
About clay vs ceramic...clay is really a kind of ceramic but usually when pots are described as ceramic they have a glassy glaze over the clay and when pots are described as clay they are just the clay with no glassy glaze over the top. When the inside of teapots are not glazed then that means, like daigo said, that there is a porous surface for the tea to interact with which leads to the development of a patina that can positively affect future brews