[Burgerman]

We buy all our tea for Northern Tea Merchants (NTM) up on Chatsworth Road and have done for years. At first it was about supporting a local business and then I got into the complexities of the product and became engaged.

On a recent trip to Sri Lanka we stayed in the town of Kandy and I was taken aback by the quality of the teas produced there. I brought a few packs back with me and quickly ran out. Thankfully NTM stock exactly the same tea from the plantations we visited so I am stocked up again.

Highly recommend a trip to the NTM’s. A successful local business selling top quality products.

Currently sat here drinking a tea from Nuwara Ellya is fantastic just how it comes, no milk, no sugar.

[clarevoyant.]

Burgerman, on 19 April 2025 - 07:17 AM, said:

We buy all our tea for Northern Tea Merchants (NTM) up on Chatsworth Road and have done for years. At first it was about supporting a local business and then I got into the complexities of the product and became engaged.

On a recent trip to Sri Lanka we stayed in the town of Kandy and I was taken aback by the quality of the teas produced there. I brought a few packs back with me and quickly ran out. Thankfully NTM stock exactly the same tea from the plantations we visited so I am stocked up again.

Highly recommend a trip to the NTM’s. A successful local business selling top quality products.

Currently sat here drinking a tea from Nuwara Ellya is fantastic just how it comes, no milk, no sugar.

Ask them about the time the cost of Earl Grey had rocketed and as a cost cutting exercise they decided to create their own. A quantity of oil of Bergamot (expensive) was procured a sheet was laid on the backyard and covered in Keemun leaves and a spraying procedure began,unfortunately freak a gust of wind deposited the leaves on Sydney Street.

[JonB]

My other half and her mum are obsessed with what was previously their Derbyshire tea and now known as gourmet tea.

[Blue roan lily]

Prefer coffee to be fair..

[Burgerman]

Blue roan lily, on 19 April 2025 - 06:09 PM, said:

Prefer coffee to be fair..

I stopped drinking coffee a few months ago but before I stopped I drank a Kenyan coffee they so. That was a good one.

[Painted Wagon]

Blue roan lily, on 19 April 2025 - 06:09 PM, said:

Prefer coffee to be fair..

Do you have a coffee machine? I’ve considered one but think I’d get bored pretty quick, lack of patience.

[Wooden Spoon]

Painted Wagon, on 20 April 2025 - 07:45 AM, said:

Do you have a coffee machine? I’ve considered one but think I’d get bored pretty quick, lack of patience.

Buy the Taylor’s coffee bags. 25p a cup and a half decent americano and infinitely better than instant coffee