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Lucifigus: it looks and sounds like your tea might be more oxidised than most young pu er; do the wet leaves look dark green or even a bit red, rather than the typical light green that you get in young pu er? Andrew Perhaps. Here is a colour comparison of the leaves of four “young sheng” style teas...

Apparently. They do describe it on their website as Dark Tea. Does that usually translate into a dark liquor?


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Wow a young sheng can look that dark?

I don’t know if Vietnamese “Sheng Style” tea qualifies as Puerh, (wine can only be called Champagne if it’s from…) but I’ll post anyway. A few months ago I ordered some tea from Hatvala, a Vietnamese vendor. One of the teas in the order was a loose leaf sheng style, “Forest Genie” from wild trees. A...

I am only about six months into buying and enjoying a variety of teas somewhat seriously. I have never ordered any Liu Bao or Liu An tea, although I have had some come as small free samples with orders from some vendors. Frankly I haven’t been all that impressed with some of the aged Shou Puerh that...

By 15 minutes hot tea will have cooled down a lot in your cup. The cup you are using is a yunomi made mostly for drinking Japanese teas which are steeped much cooler than aged white, sheng or oolong. Since you like to stack a few 150ml gaiwan steeps I recommend you use a pre-heated +-350ml glazed c...

...The cup shape, size and material can effect how a tea tastes and how fast it cools down. Lucifigus Can you show us the cup and describe it? snip Here is a photo of the cup with some other objects for scale - that's an avocado beside the Port. The cup has about 190ml of liquid in it. After I some...

As an explanation, I generally use a gaiwan that brews about 125ml of tea. I drink tea in a different room than I brew tea. I really don’t want to stand at the sink drinking tea in 50ml cups, nor do I want to be running back and forth every few minutes. I use thick ceramic cups of about 250ml and I ...

I am new at the serious tea pursuit, but over the last few months I have been ordering and sampling a reasonable number of teas, although overall, still a small sample size. Most of what I have been exploring is Sheng, Aged Whites, and a variety of Oolongs. I do find there are some Sheng that have s...

I am new at this and have been experimenting with reasonable tea and brewing Gong Fu style for about six weeks. I have ordered many sample packs and some have arrived and I eagerly await others. I have always liked oolong teas, and it is fun exploring other varieties; however, this is quite a new ad...

This is all part of figuring out what the varied constituents of the tea world are made of. I have also drank poor whiskey and it didn't keep me away. Frankly, if all I ever drank were good Oolongs, I could be happy, but I know there is more out there and I am determined to find it.

Lucifigus

I have been spending a few weeks trying to improve the quality of my tea drinking. I am learning about a number of teas and techniques that are new to me. Yesterday I had my first taste of a ripe Puerh - a less than positive experience. Although it didn't taste fishy, there was a strong fishy smell ...