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- Fri May 31, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
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Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Early morning QiZhong yancha from 2017 - bright flavour and mouthfeel to cut through a gloomy start to the day, and a good match to my new teapot friend. GaoShan : I get the feeling that an unroasted baozhong which improves (or at least, doesn't deteriorate) after a year is probably the exception ra...
- Wed May 29, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
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Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
I have been recently drinking a variety of oolongs from Floating Leaves, and slowly realizing that some are just calibrated to give that perfect delicate and balanced impression for my palate just one time when brewed with a little leaf grandpa style. [...] Trying to turn one into the other just do...
- Sun May 26, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: (Rant alert) – Finance my tea adventures!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 616
Re: (Rant alert) – Finance my tea adventures!
I read that title and I got worried for a moment that your account had been hacked into...
But thank you for reminding me why I don't use social media - I'm blissfully unaware of the world of 'influencers'.
The people who know the most are usually the ones who say the least.
Andrew
But thank you for reminding me why I don't use social media - I'm blissfully unaware of the world of 'influencers'.
The people who know the most are usually the ones who say the least.
Andrew
- Sat May 25, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
- Views: 1582321
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Trying the 'same' tea 12 months apart - PingLin baozhong made from the HuangZhi cultivar, one from mid-April 2024, the other from late April 2023. Am I the only one who actually prefers some baozhong to be just a little bit 'aged'? They're both very nice, but the 2024 feels a bit too 'savoury' and '...
- Sat May 25, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 484
- Views: 214114
Re: Your day in tea
Had a really great tasting with a tea buddy this afternoon that evolved into 6 hours (had no idea!). Take away is friendship, great tea and great music rock. Add to that excellent yancha curated by LazyCat -it is energetic, radiating up and out of the body, in an almost mystical way. I agree with t...
- Sat May 11, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
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Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Another cloudy and rainy yancha day, comparing two examples of BaiRuiXiang, grown in different locations, and one from 2013 and the other from 2018. The 2013 was very aromatic (apricots and perfumed aged notes) while the 2018 had a richer and rounder peachy flavour profile. Both of them were in what...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
- Views: 1582321
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Enjoying an aged XinBei oriental beauty from 2013 - tastes very bright and zesty, with a smooth mouthfeel and a cool refreshing aftertaste. Looks like the person who decided to leave it alone for ten years made a good decision. Hopefully I can exercise a similar level of self-control for some teas t...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1840
Re: What's your tea of choice when you're sad?
Interesting question indeed. My choice is moderately-roasted Dong Ding and similar styles of Taiwanese wulong. Hard to brew too badly, pleasant and comforting in flavour and feeling, usually fairly affordable (so there's less fear of 'wasting' it), and, importantly, it was one of the styles of tea t...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 689
- Views: 369019
Re: What Black Are You Drinking
Andrew S Your picture really captures the session well, I think! Feels very meditative... Thanks - yes, a calming little session with a smooth, gentle tea (and with the added pleasure of feeling the smoothness of the clay pot at the same time). I guess it's an aspect of trying to match the tea to t...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
- Views: 1582321
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Beginning a slow, steady exploration of dancong - one of the many categories of tea which I've pretty much completely ignored so far due to misconceptions and bad early experiences. I've had to re-adjust my expectations and preferences towards using far fewer leaves than with yancha, and aiming to e...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 689
- Views: 369019
Re: What Black Are You Drinking
Finishing off a bit of a Taiwanese TTES 8 hongcha from 2013 - there's a very nice fresh and vibrant quality to the flavour and mouthfeel which I think is emphasised by the teapot, and which helps to cut through an otherwise dark and cloudy day.
Andrew
Andrew
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Teaware B&W Appreciation
- Replies: 315
- Views: 377300
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
- Views: 1582321
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Not all grape jellybeans taste the same. Australian ones may be quite different than jellybeans in California. :roll: And the last time that I had jellybeans could have been about two decades ago... they may well taste better in my memory than in reality. Same tea today, but different teapot, diffe...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
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Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
grapes and jellybeans Curious: I get the grapes reference, that sounds quite tasty. But I don't think of a 'jellybean' flavor, perhaps because I was introduced to JellyBellies at an early age--a cousin started carrying them in her shop long before they were staples of every sort of candy and gift s...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2793
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Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
I'm enjoying my second session of a small sample of an AiJiao yancha from HuiYuanKeng. I've been trying to get into the habit of writing down some notes when I try new teas, and it's been quite useful when I revisit them, especially if the samples are only small and I won't get to try them more than...