Tea etc.

Tea is one of those drinks that can be very boring or very complex and interesting. Whether a particular type of tea is one or the other of these two options depends on a lot of things. It depends on everything from the mode of preparation to the blend of teas to the drinker herself. You might wonder how a drinker can make a difference between a boring tea and a complex and interesting tea. Here I intend to be speaking of the experience of the tea. If you have a drinker who is chewing spearmint gum while drinking her tea, then any complexity of flavour will be completely lost. If, on the other hand, the drinker has a clean pallet, a moderate attention span--it doesn't really need to be that long--, and the desire to think about what she is tasting, then tea can provide the drinker with a very pleasant experience.

The same goes for a number of other beverages: Beer, Coffee, and Wine, for example. If you are at all interested in learning about these things, then check out some of the links that I've posted near the bottom of the sidebar (to the right of this post), under the heading 'eat & drink'.

To note a few of the links, I highly recommend:

About Wine
Coffee Geek
Beer Hunter
and,
UK Tea Council

Also, if you follow the link to the UK Tea Council website, make sure you take note of the Tea counter. Apparently, the people of Britain consume upwards of 150 000 000 cups of tea a day.