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GaoShan New teas have arrived. I placed an order for the latest Niurou. Given the lavish praise it gets on western forums, I'm reserving any judgement till I try it! I just saw your post when I went to make my own post about new teas on their site. I see the Anhui green teas are available now, but ...

I think that there is no a certain % tax on parcels. Seems like they have some other calculator for small parcels. Apparently they consider also the amount of items ( probably to tax harder those multiple orders in one big box ) . I've got few reports form customers paying the tax and non of them w...

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Sun Aug 31, 2025 6:50 pm

GaoShan that sounds like an excellent “problem” to have !

Yes, this is definitely a first world problem. I'm going to do a big Bi Luo Chun comparison next week before the tea gets much older.

I feel sorry for American tea drinkers. As a Canadian, this doesn't affect my ability to buy tea, but I'm sure it will threaten the survival of many small businesses. This has been a terrible year to start selling tea! Ethan got out at a good time.

Nice to see you on the forum! I'm not in the market for puerh, but if you can find Taiwanese tea that you'd describe as an extravagant luxury treat, I'd be interested.

As usual, I overbought green tea this year. It's almost September and I still have a lot left to drink. Sampling spring 2025 gaoshan hasn't helped with that. Today I'm drinking an Anji Bai Cha from Camellia Sinensis, which has the umami, citrus, beans, and florals I enjoy in this type of tea. I have...

I haven't had many versions of Jin Jun Mei, but the Meng Ding JJM I'm drinking from Camellia Sinensis this afternoon is one of the rosiest I've experienced. I get a heady rose fragrance that lasts for a good eight steeps, along with the malt, honey, and dark chocolate I usually pick up in JJM. The b...

I received some 2025 Handmade Qimen Mao Feng from The Sweetest Dew and have been preparing it according to instructions from LeoFox on the grandpa brewing thread (3 g/120 ml/60, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 seconds, plus 2, 3, 5, 10 minutes). I can really taste the firing in the first two steeps, which produ...

Has anyone heard from Daxue Jiadao lately? I think their Anhui greens are usually in stock by now, and I haven't received a newsletter update in a while. I hope they're okay.

Trying forest hill black tea now https://www.teaforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=50251#p50251 https://www.thesteepingroom.com/products/2023-forest-hill-handmade-wild-black-tea-rods It is very good. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMeNXGnsAX4/?img_index=5&igsh=eG84c2FtbmdtcmJr I wonder if these are the same te...

Price List for Spring 2025 Gaoshan, or Lightly Oxidized High Mountain Oolong 1. Perfect: This sweet, clean, floral oolong from the Shanlinxi area is a great introduction to gaoshan for the curious and a lovely daily drinker for the more experienced. It persists through many gongfu steeps while neve...

Sounds to me more like an issue of brewing technique... Normally if you do shorter steeps you can control exactly that. Grandpa is actually more risky to get a bitter brew as all the bitterness can slowly come out over time, although mitigated by declining temperature. That makes sense, but it hasn...

I drink green tea almost exclusively grandpa style since I find gongfu brewing extracts too much bitterness Sounds to me more like an issue of brewing technique... Normally if you do shorter steeps you can control exactly that. Grandpa is actually more risky to get a bitter brew as all the bitterne...

I drink green tea almost exclusively grandpa style since I find gongfu brewing extracts too much bitterness, but I've never experimented with grandpa style steeping rolled oolong. I have a large amount of sample tea lying around right now, so that might change. Grandpa style does allow more opportun...

Very glad to see that you can continue where Ethan left off (and, of course, very grateful to Ethan Kurland). I've usually ordered a few packs across the high mountain spectrum to try and enjoy over Summer, so I look forward to doing the same once again. Taiwan high mountain tea was one of the styl...