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Living remote in the highlands of Scotland the water is generally pretty good. However I still find that still(not mineral, i think there's a difference?!) water makes for a better tea. Will be trying a filter soon. Mineral water is pretty gawd awful. Still is water without bubbles, so not sparklin...

Living remote in the highlands of Scotland the water is generally pretty good.
However I still find that still(not mineral, i think there's a difference?!) water makes for a better tea.
Will be trying a filter soon.

I love brewing various teas in my gaiwan at home, such as white teas, green, oolong, black etc. However I work/play outside a lot and sometimes just need a big mug of gulpable refreshing/calming tea, and a lot of the teas I have been collecting seem more suitable for savoring slowly. Obviously gaiwa...

I'm from Scotland, and have been drinking tea all my life. This year, during some particularly tough days working in forestry I found tea having a very soothing effect whilst also being very refreshing, so I started drinking a lot more! More recently I decided to go down the rabbit hole and started ...