[Closed] A brew is not the same in a coloured mug...

Or one that isn't chipped and stained.

I've just made a cuppa in a grey mug, it looks weak and crap...and I could swear it tastes different.

got given some clear mugs for chrimbo...
They remind me of hospitals or motorway services but the brew looks ace

clear I could do. I think it's a contrast thing, darker mugs make the tea look weak.

I like a brightly coloured mug, but the inner surface must be white or the leafy tincture does in fact taste different as you say.

Leafy tincture...I like that.

white only, preferably thin china

Ever tried tea out of those travel coffee mugs? I don't know why it tastes as grim as it does.

My mum won't drink coffee out of a black mug, says it tastes different. It's a psychological thing, I remember reading something about it a couple of years ago.

Ive got a bunch of different mugs, in a variety of colours, and as yet, despite years of drinking tea out of all of them, I've yet to notice any difference in flavour that can be attributed to the colour.
To the choice of teabag, yes, to the amount of milk, (if any), yes, but colour of the mug?
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I don't think it affects coffee much, but tea is definitely better out of white.

Has to have a white inside for me, not fussed about the outside, it also has to be a standard mug, none of these funny other types like Cambridge style.

Deffo psychological.. I saw a documentary a while back and they had some wine club doing blind tests.. They couldn't tell the difference between rose and red, never mind the apparently superb vintage reds!

I can't drink coffee or tea from a mug with a bright blue inside! Urgh

My dad claimed it tasted different years ago.

We did a blind taste test and quite understandably, he failed miserably to taste the difference.

Perfectly happy to accept that it is physchological (obviously really); but it's still soooo true. White interior, or yellow, and vertical, parallel sides, with minimum lippage. These things are important to my enjoyment of brewage.

I could drink tea out of a tramp's hat and still enjoy it 🙂

Deffo psychological.. I saw a documentary a while back and they had some wine club doing blind tests.. They couldn't tell the difference between rose and red

really? whats the name of the documentary

Dunno about colour, but at home tea definitely tastes better out of certain mug shapes than others. A rounded bottom mug tastes better than a squared-off one.

I know. I'm weird.

Does this remind you of the time your father took you to buy some white communion shoes?

Show us your mugs...

Deffo psychological.. I saw a documentary a while back and they had some wine club doing blind tests.. They couldn't tell the difference between rose and red, never mind the apparently superb vintage reds!

really? whats the name of the documentary

Maybe not the same one but theres a [url= http://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-do-more-expensive-wines-taste-better/ ]Freakenomics [/url]episode on this. I think you can look at the results of blind taste tests in two ways though. One is you can say price and implied quality are all a fraud, the other is that maybe there are more sense involved in enjoying something than just your tastebuds. In the freakenomics example was blind in a sense but their expectations were being played with as well as their tastebuds.

I think wine tastes better if I've cycled past the vineyard 🙂 but only in the sense that I'm enjoying fond memories alongside the booze. A friend always jokes that he can only enjoy wine if it comes from a country with an appalling record of human rights abuses. Wine has a link, and is packaged and presented in relation to its place of origin. Similarly if something is rare or expensive, or you've made a special effort to get it, then the sense that its a treat is overlaid with the actual flavour.

Don't mind what colour the mug is providing me or rocket jr have made the brew

The SIL made a cuppa at the weekend it was basically scalding watery milk