them coming inside a cup of tea so british of me i know but i'm not alone here in germany taken summerson has been rising steadily for nearly a decade but you know how many t.v. righties there are to choose from in total over three thousand eight hundred we went to a tea tasting in hamburg to find out why germans like it so much. is undergoing a renaissance in germany people here drink more than twenty eight leaders of it a year on average three out of four prefer black teas but a quarter of tea drinkers swear by green varieties. more and more often it doesn't come from a bag. business with loose and beautifully packaged gourmet teas is booming. just a moment or two to think the reason more and more germans are drinking tea could be that they're more aware of quality and willing to spend more money on quality beverages drinking the more consciously. the n.t. is one of them a strength for pleasure like coffee and there are more and more excellent teas to discover. it. over to. the tea shop and restaurant and hamburg's warehouse district regularly hosts tea seminars for anyone who wants to