What coffee or tea are you drinking ?
I admit, my first coffee in the New Year is a Starbucks Grande Flat White, ordinary 2 % milk. $6.38 CAD.
Papua New Guinea, medium roast, long black, at home.
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Not a coffee drinker here. I start every day off with a glass of iced black tea.
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At the moment, Iâm juggling between Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co.âs Colombia Tolima (from my Misto subscription) and Alinea Coffee Roastersâ Myanmar Done Li Tan (flash offering from Podium Coffee Club). In the wings is Alma Coffeeâs Bourbon Barrel-Aged.
Tea-wise, Iâve got a lot in the pantry. Iâm at the tail end of an Assam I got in June 2024 from a tea shop in Copenhagen to finish off.
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Still home roasting. Recent green coffee buys were 5 # of Ethiopian and 5 # of Columbian beans.
Not sure I can give up home roasting
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My morning tea of choice is Mariage FrĂšres French Breakfast, brewed from loose leaves, as is.
If I have coffee at home, itâs usually Stumptown cold brew concentrate in a 1:1 ratio with milk, either cold or heated.
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Jan 3, 2026. A medium Cappuccino at McDâs on Norwich in Woodstock, ON. Not that bad, better than a Tim Hortons cappuccino and better than a previous McDâs Cappuccino in LdnOnt. haha. $3.99 CAD before tax.
I will keep my eyes open for this tea in Toronto.
I have either donated my odds and ends of tea to the community fridge or have finished most tea on hand. I currently only have some Yorkshire Tea teabags, Taylorâs Earl Grey teabags, loose Earl Grey tea, and loose Masala Chai on hand. Time to start growing my tea collection again.
A lot of Mariage FrĂšres âsignatureâ and popular flavored teas are heavily perfumey and exaggerated, but I like some of their teas a lot. The two I drink often are the aforementioned French Breakfast and Ruschka. We go through so much of the French Breakfast here, I get it in bulk from the source.
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My favorite Mariage Freres tea is their Rouge Bourbon.
Iâm with you on that one. Once we started here, there was no going back.
I only drink (Japanese) loose leaf tea and matcha. If you used bagged tea do check if the bag is 100% paper.
Do a search for the original report (which also mentions what type of paper bags are most effective. I read about it in a health & medical magazine, the article on their site is not free but this report is widely available on other health/med sites).
Site below has a list of plastic free bagged tea.
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+1 on home roasting 
Right now Iâm drinking a 50% Burundi Monge Murambi Hill and 50% Rwanda Rutsiro Nkora mix, roasted to âfull city.â I usually brew up double shot cortados with oat milk, but over the holidays Iâve also made this blend a couple times as drip (black, no sweetener).
The Burundi is described as: Syrupy bodied coffee with clean, bright flavors that are sweet from start to finish. Raw sugar and honey sweetness, aromatic hints of fragrant black teas, all-spice, and pleasant tea-tannic finish.
The Rwanda is described as: Well-balanced, rounded flavors, with syrupy sweetness, and moderate acidity. Hints of dried fruit, tea, cinnamon bark, and dark cocoa.
Iâve been drinking MarketBasket Dark Roast-economical, tasty, local
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Thatâs why I try to combine loose tea with paper filters and make my own tea bags. More convenient than using a tea ball and such, especially at work, and everything is compostable.
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