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First tea of the day was the 2003 "Serious Formula". Second session with a newly acquired cake, been three years (I thought two until I checked, boy has time flown by) since I finished my last. Same old familiar Henry, glad to see the storage isn't off. Brewed it in tin today, perhaps the most surpr...

It's a special time of the year here, the cold weather has set in but significant snowfall has yet to happen. Some of the darkest and driest days of the year, with the alluring smell of ten thousand stoked furnaces as a constant olfactory companion when walking outside. I'm particularly drawn to smo...

Interesting! Is it one of those "单蒸" liubao teas? I have one such tea from Fengtaixiang on its way (material from 2021-23, pressed this year) which, despite it's (lack of) age, I am looking forward to trying.

My guess would be temp swings (especially cooler temps with corresponding RH spikes, which will be very slow to decrease again with Bovedas) as the main culprit here. Bovedas (or similar systems) + mylar still have the best balance of good results with very little effort involved (for the typical we...

2001 Mengku "qiaomu qibing" (daye neifei).

First time brewing this in a newly aquired chaozhou pot. Not a very focused session, but a surprisingly good pot/tea pairing. Thick viscosity, an ever so slightly muting that takes away none of the good stuff.

The only intact logs I have are a couple of "sanshi liangs" that are a kg each. They barely fit in the largest zip lock mylars I have. The rest is all in the form of slices

Yep, Voss from the tap most places here, can't really complain about that.

In the spirit of "posting updated impressions of the same tea", the first session in eight months with the BSX's 2022 "Junzeyuan" QLC today. 20240817_123946.jpg 20240817_123932.jpg 20240817_124919.jpg 20240817_125615.jpg I don't reach for this often for the simple reason that it needs more time. My ...

Lists of good & bad people doing business are somewhat useful, but I prefer members frankly posting about the teas they have bought to let us learn over time instead of relying on lists. I agree with this. What do members really like? Members greatly praise teas that they sample, then never seem to...

Two of my alleged F2 pots have a single-hole filter. Seems like multi-hole or ball filters are more common in the catalogs I've seen too, but I'm pretty sure I've seen multiple single hole examples for F2 (perhaps more so in the earlier pieces) both in catalogs and FB galleries (e.g. one example in ...

We can only speculate, especially since TdJ themselves arent pointing to financial reasons (operating at a loss, etc) for their change. If TdJ is dependent on imported goods/services for their operations, or e.g. have personal costs "back home" in France (or elsewhere) that are accrued in EUR (not u...

I think we are talking about the .com site here. They accept payment through PayPal or cars (Visa/MC). No hocus pocus special thing. Occam's razor is useful, if not always correct. In any case, the owners themselves have not pointed to any disadvantage for them from a cost point of view, only a tech...

Sunny morning with some 501 8582.

Though a good amount of snow fell yesterday, spring is definitely in sight

We had a request from EU customer to pay in euro , saying similar issue with being "overcharged" if paying in USD ( which of course another way of paypal how to make some money ) . This example has little to do with the TdJ change, though. It's more like if you used to offer people to buy in either...

This is very disappointing, as is the "technical reasons" explanation. Thanks for sharing.