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- Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:34 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: What Green Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 213162
Re: What Green Are You Drinking
Can someone give me the best brewing parameters for green tea such as temps, steep time and leaf amounts. Thanks!! I cannot give you "the best", but I can tell you what I use as starting points. By all means, take the time to play around with parameters, as Japanese teas are very responsive to even...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:04 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: What Green Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1044
- Views: 213162
Re: What Green Are You Drinking
I had never tried Green Tea and was convinced that it tasted like seaweed and green beans. I bought a shiboridashi from Thes Du Japon in October which came with samples I ignored. Now that I was interested in trying sencha and gyokuro I found them. I had one from sencha sample from tdj that tasted l...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 1:48 pm
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hokujo Teaware
- Replies: 80
- Views: 14798
Re: Hokujo Teaware
The tokoname is 140ml, my lovely pear pot is 90ml which I use for yancha. Honestly i am shocked how well made the tokoname teapot is and how it turns up the flavor like you packed it with leaf. It brings out much more aftertaste that I thought was imaginable. You can turn it upside down and the lid ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:59 pm
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hokujo Teaware
- Replies: 80
- Views: 14798
Re: Hokujo Teaware
I too have jumped on this train. I bought one as I have only been drinking taiwan oolong lately. From what I've heard from others, the pot has a fast pour, well designed and improves aftertaste without taking anything away from you. Switching gears ⚙️ from Yixing and Young Sheng. How are you liking...
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:06 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hokujo Teaware
- Replies: 80
- Views: 14798
Re: Hokujo Teaware
I too have jumped on this train. I bought one as I have only been drinking taiwan oolong lately. From what I've heard from others, the pot has a fast pour, well designed and improves aftertaste without taking anything away from you.
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1617
- Views: 287441
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
I never let my cakes rest


- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:01 pm
- Forum: Kettles & Heating Elements
- Topic: Electric Kettles
- Replies: 141
- Views: 28085
Re: Electric Kettles
.....almost done that so many times.. I've turned it on with no water in it and turned it off as fast as I could. That sucks my bonavita is still kicking which keeps me from getting complicated with a tetsu :P klepto, Have you tasted tea when the water was heated in a tetsubin? Maybe for your palat...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Kettles & Heating Elements
- Topic: Electric Kettles
- Replies: 141
- Views: 28085
Re: Electric Kettles
Old bonavita kettles may be useful. (Save them.) A week ago I had a "senior moment" during which I turned on my bonavita 1.7 L variable temperature kettle without putting water inside it. Soon there was an unfamiliar sound & a scent of burnt electric wiring. I had killed it. This led me to learn th...
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Characteristics of a Fine Tea:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 347
Re: Characteristics of a Fine Tea:
I agree, nice sum-up. Arguably any water-like liquid will still slide down your throat smoothly, that is just physics – but I get what he means, and given the complexity of such sensations, I'll give him a pass on that one :lol: I had some yancha today that just slid down my throat with no effort a...
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Characteristics of a Fine Tea:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 347
Characteristics of a Fine Tea:
I may have some issue with GTH but their magazine is quite good, here's a quote from them on this issue: Wu De, ‘Gongfu Tea Tips: The Characteristics of Fine Tea’ , Global Tea Hut Magazine , June 2014. Fine teas immediately splash up to the upper palate. This is a very important feature of fine tea,...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:06 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: tea spoon vs scale?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1191
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: tea spoon vs scale?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1191
Re: tea spoon
When you get further into loose leaf teas, everything is measured by the gram.
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1652
- Views: 322048
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Had some very nice Jin Mu Dan and Lao Cong Shui Xian in an 80ml zhuni teapot. I'm getting hooked on oolong again but now my mediocre jedi tea skills allow me to enjoy it more without too many mistakes.. 

- Sat Dec 05, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What is your favorite region/subregion for puerh and why?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1013
Re: What is your favorite region/subregion for puerh and why?
Thing is this question to me, for what it's worth, is rather mute... Some drink the green stuff and some drink the old stuff.. everyone wants the old stuff, but somehow get stuck ... When they get old, it's either good or bad, by storage and by base... Not bass, base... So how? My favourite region,...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Yixing
- Replies: 3636
- Views: 402696
Re: Yixing
I noticed something tonight, the other day I brewed some yancha with my lqer pot and today I brewed it with some run of the mill porcelain gaiwan. The lqer pot gave it more body, it was a measurable difference. TBH it tasted a bit better too :mrgreen: 😁😁😁 that's only the beginning... My poor porcel...