Today I’m out at a vegetarian festival and spending the day in St. Augustine. Weee.
Unfortunately, I’m feeling so bloated all day today. Already had some matcha and random green tea (which I did not log), and even took some medicine, but still feeling bloated and blehhhh.
I don’t know this area well but I found a coffee shop that has a lot of different teas. It’s so disorganized. It’s really just a bunch of glass containers and random teas all stacked on top of each other, in front, and behind. You can’t even SEE all the teas at once and there in this tiny little corner and you have to crane your neck. So NOT a tea store. LOL. But I’ll take what I can get.
So I figure since I have all these teas at my disposal, I would make a random concoction to do something about my bloating. I do a little google homework on what herbs are best. Anise, fennel, and peppermint. Well, they have ONE of those herbs – mint (peppermint or spearmint? I have no idea). But just to make things interesting I start rummaging through the teas and adding a random assortment of other herbs. My final concoction had this as the ingredients:
Mint
Ginger
Spicy orange
Apple
It’s um… interesting. I thought I would throw in some fruit for some vitamin C but mint doesn’t mix well with fruit. And I threw in the ginger because.. Why not, right?
I also brought along some honey juuuust in case. It’s not the worst tea, but it’s not amazing. Obviously being an herbal tea blender is not in my immediate future. Only time will tell if it helps the bloating
The BF wanted to go to a cigar/beer joint here, so I brought along my tea. They also have tea here but it’s ONLY Celestial Seasonings Berry tea. Um..no. So here I am at a cigar bar, sipping my crazy herbal tea, surrounded by smoke, alcohol, and jazz music. I’m sorta hip.
As a side note, I wish St. Augustine had a true tea shop. It has so many other cool stores, dangit. Then I could move here and work at one. I could open one myself, but I’m soooo lazy and unmotivated. But who knows, maybe one day I will. You heard it first on this abnormally long and over-detailed tasting note.
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Ginger can also help the tummy but for some it upsets it more. Sounds like you needed a probiotic boost and some pu’er – regardless it sounds fun being able to make your own concoction there! :)
Hmm thanks for the tip. Maybe I’ll have some yogurt tomorrow with some up-erh tea :)
For what it’s worth, I like abnormally long and overly detailed tasting notes. :D
lol, Nik so do I especially when people are pretty detailed about the events that went with having the tea!
About coffee shops: It is a wonder when coffee shops have tea at all…the coffee shop I used to like (I drank Italian Sodas, but since I’ve cut out the pop…..meh.) Their tea selection kinda sucks. I think I need to start carrying my own and just asking for a cup of hot water.
Ginger sometimes calms my tummy down, so does mint, though never thought I’d see the 2 together, they are both such overpowering tastes/textures.
I forgot to mention that I composed this tasting note entirely on my iphone. You know you’re addicted to steepster when … ;)
Ginger can also help the tummy but for some it upsets it more. Sounds like you needed a probiotic boost and some pu’er – regardless it sounds fun being able to make your own concoction there! :)
Hmm thanks for the tip. Maybe I’ll have some yogurt tomorrow with some up-erh tea :)
For what it’s worth, I like abnormally long and overly detailed tasting notes. :D
lol, Nik so do I especially when people are pretty detailed about the events that went with having the tea!
About coffee shops: It is a wonder when coffee shops have tea at all…the coffee shop I used to like (I drank Italian Sodas, but since I’ve cut out the pop…..meh.) Their tea selection kinda sucks. I think I need to start carrying my own and just asking for a cup of hot water.
Ginger sometimes calms my tummy down, so does mint, though never thought I’d see the 2 together, they are both such overpowering tastes/textures.
I forgot to mention that I composed this tasting note entirely on my iphone. You know you’re addicted to steepster when … ;)