Scratch Post: A strange mix

I never thought that tea and beer could go together and make a nice drink. It's called the Heineken Green Tea drink. When a friend told me about it, I got really curious of this strange drink, and bugged her the whole afternoon to give it a try. Strangeness has always carried with it some charm. In the end she gave in and we went to the tea place right after dinner.

Crab balls or something, and tea

I'm no beer drinker, let that be stressed. Tried it once and I don't like it, except when mixed with something else like in a punch or shake. A little wine is fine with me too. Some food just taste great with it. So see, the taste (and texture, but definitely not the smell) is all I'm after.

Honestly, I don't get the idea of having "drinking sessions." Some people say it's not the alcohol that's good, but the company and the conversations while drinking. I don't get it. Let's talk when you're sober, over a cup of coffee or while having cakes and tea. I think what they're after is how alcohol can loosen up one's lips so they can talk freely. But when you're drunk, you're drunk and you fall asleep and have a bad headache the next morning.

Tea on the other hand is a drink I regularly have. It started last year when I tried out some teas my parents usually buy. Since then I always have my own stash. I like black teas, fruit teas, green tea; I love peppermint, but I hate jasmine. I enjoy my tea's aroma but there's something about the flowery smell of jasmine that tells me "that's a flower and it tastes like grass."

I guess that's how the idea of mixing tea and beer got me curious. An unusual mix of a drink that calms and another that sedates; one that I enjoy hot and another that is best served ice-cold; one that I like and another I don't (usually). They're mixed together to form this strange drink that's surprisingly great. It tastes like some weird calamansi juice -that's the best way I could describe it. I dunno where the citrus-y taste comes from but I like it.

I don't know if beer drinkers and tea lovers will like it. The idea sounds like sacrilege. But then what is sacrilegious in teas and beer? That is one strange idea. I like it.