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during the week: three cups with breakfast, three cups with lunch (unless i need a serious jolt in which case it’s coffee), and another 2-6 cups after school, depending.

on the weekend: varies a lot, but at least 8 cups usually.

Every day for sure! usually 1-2 in the morning, 2-3 in the afternoon and a cup or two before bed!

I drink tea every day unless I’m not feeling well and can’t get to the pot. That’s the only thing that’ll stop me! Recently I’ve been brewing a lot at school. I easily drink ~30-50oz a day; mostly depending on how much I’m at home.

Almost everyday I drink tea. In winter now I usually drink black tea, oolong tea or puerh tea. In the morning two or three 12oz cups of tea. In the afternoon I usually brew gaiwan gongfu tea to enjoy our Chinese Teas. It is the best way for me to improve working efficiency in the afternoon.

usually one to two types of tea a day, and as many steeps as are appropriate for the tea. So between one and seven cups right now, but usually about three.

How much tea and how often?

Hmm… What sort of measurements do you want on the how much? A daily average of cups? Because this varies during the week, depending whether I’m at home or at work. And what size cups?

Easier for me to break it down, really. Let’s start with not-work days, because today is one (have I ever mentioned I love wednesdays? I love wednesdays!), and then I make the first cup when I get up. That’s about 400 ml, I think. I usually fill the kettle all the way up, so I can just press the button when I want to make the next cup. Yes, this means the last cup out of a kettle-full will be made with water that has been boiled to death, which is widely considered a no-no, but I can’t tell a difference anyway. After that first cup, it’s a more of less constant thing throughout the day. I’ve never counted how many times I make a cup, but I do sometimes wonder if there is such a thing as chain-drinking, just like chain-smoking. I usually have a small break between cups, though, unless it’s something I’m resteeping again and again. Maybe an hour or so in between. If I’m resteeping something again and again (this never happens on work days), I tend to make the next one directly on the tail of the previous cup, but then I also use much smaller cups.
But no, I’ve never counted how many cups I drink during a day like this. I shall do so today and get back to you with an answer.

For a work-day, I tend to make a pot of tea not too long after coming into work. It’s a thermos that I share with my boss, as some of you already know, and if I doesn’t make it, she does. Either way, it’s usually done before ten or so, depending on how busy we are. As we work in a laboratory, we can’t just make tea in between all the other work. It does require having a five-ten minute ‘hole’ in the work to go and do so. Well, we could do it in between, I suppose, but then we’d just be spending the same amount of time washing hands before going to the kitchen all the time.

Anyway, that pot holds about a liter. She drinks half and I drink half and usually we pour the last of it around lunch time or so. We use these travel cups, because then we can have a cup of tea kept warm for a longer time and it’s more practical in the lab because there’s a protective lid on it. Not that we take drinks into the lab with us, mind you, ahem! innocent look (Quality surveys are pure torture when we have to leave our cups in the kitchen all day…)
Then when I get home from work, I sometimes make another cup, and after dinner we usually have one again. Sometimes two, depending on how long it takes to cook.

So how much and how often?
Lots and all the time. :D

One of my (unofficial) New Year’s resolutions was to drink tea daily, and I’ve been doing pretty well with it. I regularly have a cup or two of a caffeine-free tea in the evenings, and when I’m at work, I tend to make myself continuous cups of tea, both to keep myself from working and because I can drink all the tasty caffeinated ones as it’s far away from bedtime!

I drink 64oz of tea at work, then another 24 or so oz when I get home :)

1 or 2 cups of breakfast blacks in the morning. After that it depends on what type of tea I’m drinking or what I’m in the mood for. But I drink all day long. Rooibos and some greens, I make by the pot (3 cup pot), other greens and whites I make cup by cup and so I drink less. Pu erh and oolongs I make in my gaiwan, which is tiny compared to my other mugs. All told, I guess between 5 and 10 cups. I try to balance out the caffeinated ones with the decaf so that I don’t get too much.

I usually have 1-2 cups of black, mate, or pu-erh in the morning,
1-2 cups of green or white in the afternoon,
and then 1-2 cups of rooibos or herbal at night.
On days off, I drink more!