I’ve told myself many times before that I’d never try another decaf tea again, yet here I am. Maybe if I wish really hard, a good — at least a decent — decaf will come my way, and I’ll get to enjoy real tea in the evening.
Is Barry’s Decaf the one I’ve been looking for? Probably not, but it’s the best one so far.
The expectation with Barry’s Decaf is that it would both stand up to milk and taste like black tea. Well, one and a half out of two ain’t bad.
One tea bag produces a full bodied brew — something I can’t say for the other decaf English/Irish style teas I’ve tried so far. Yes, it handles milk just fine. The aroma and taste are vaguely reminiscent of tea, which is all I’ve come to expect from decaf.
Barry’s should be commended for using the safe and least destructive CO2 decaffeination process. Unfortunately, tea is too delicate to withstand any decaf processing.
From my research, Barry’s tea is not using CO2 for decaffeinating. This was their continued statement as recently as 2016:
The method we use to decaffeinate is MC (Methylene Chloride), which we find reduces caffeine content to less than 0.2% and this method produces a better quality product from the blends we use for decaffeination
Hi. Why are we being told time and time again that the water process is the best and safest method of decaffeinating tea. What is the process that Barry’s tea use. ? I am a big tea drinker and have in the past 4 months changed from regular Barry’s tea to Barry’s decaf tea and really like it but somewhat concerned that I cannot be sure that it is safe in the process of decaffeinating the tea. My understanding is that the water process is best way to decaffeinate tea, other methods result in more harmful chemicals in the tea that if I were drinking regular tea. Can you clarify for me please. Thank you.