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- Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:18 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Differences between Chinese and other assamica teas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3383
Re: Differences between Chinese and other assamica teas
Interesting replies, thanks! From the China end, they originally wanted to make a British-style tea-with-milk to compete with Indian teas, but weren't able to do it. I didn't know that the goal was to compete with "Western" black teas. Where can I read more about that? If Yunnan producers were unifo...
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:57 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Differences between Chinese and other assamica teas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3383
Differences between Chinese and other assamica teas
In my experience, assamica teas grown to target the Western black tea market have similar flavours, regardless of whether they're grown in India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, etc., even when they are unblended and in whole-leaf form. On the other hand, I find that black teas from Yunnan have flavours distinct ...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:47 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hagi ware Absorption of Colour/Odor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6324
Re: Hagi ware and absorption of colour/odour
My point about the hagiyaki coffee cups is that they don't appear to craze or have a surface glaze for flavors to accumulate. Thanks, that's interesting. I originally imagined all Hagi ware would behave in the same way, but this means that a yunomi that does craze will react to something like coffe...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:29 pm
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hagi ware Absorption of Colour/Odor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6324
Re: Hagi ware and absorption of colour/odour
I have coffee cups made by Bertil Persson; I've not used them but they seem to have a more dense glaze. I don't see why they wouldn't be acceptable for tea if one prefered. I mean, if they've been used a lot for coffee, do they stain and/or pick up coffee aroma which will carry over to tea? Pieces ...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:57 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Hagi ware Absorption of Colour/Odor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6324
Hagi ware Absorption of Colour/Odor
I understand that Hagi ware will change colour as it absorbs tea over time, and I've also seen warnings about absorbing strong aromas. I'm curious about how prominent this effect is. Yunomi are obviously meant for teas like sencha or hojicha, but does anyone have experience with darker teas, like bl...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Japanese Green Tea: Aged, Roasted, Fermented
- Replies: 56
- Views: 41682
Re: Japanese Green Tea: Aged, Roasted, Fermented
While it's fermented, I'm not sure I would call it a take on shu. It's very different. If you're already familiar with most of the "normal" types of tea, I'd say it's definitely interesting to try for its uniqueness!
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:36 am
- Forum: White Tea
- Topic: "Hybrid" green/white
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6992
Re: "Hybrid" green/white
Back to that processing chart (which isn't intended as a last word, even as presented on that page) I agree, some classic green teas like biluochun are rolled, but according to the chart it wouldn't be a green tea. I guess it's not trivial to fit all the variations of tea processing into simple gro...
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:48 pm
- Forum: White Tea
- Topic: "Hybrid" green/white
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6992
Re: "Hybrid" green/white
The heating step (fixation, called here, or sha qing, kill green) seems the crux. The guy in the video seems to think so as well, but that's the thing: I've seen "white" tea that has undergone both kill-green and rolling , which AFAIK is how green tea is produced. The result is indeed very similar ...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:54 am
- Forum: White Tea
- Topic: "Hybrid" green/white
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6992
"Hybrid" green/white
I've seen some vendors sell "white" teas that look and taste more like green tea. Some of them are described as in-between, like this Jade Needle from Yunnan Sourcing , and another vendor admitted that their "white" (but very green-tasting) tea had undergone fixation (kill-green). I thought white te...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:33 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Degrees of steaming in Japanese green tea
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3493
Re: Degrees of steaming in Japanese green tea
I can't recall seeing the 'same' sencha in all attributes though with different levels of steaming. I also haven't found something like that from any of the suggested vendors. I can usually taste the difference in steaming levels regardless of other attributes. Certainly fukamushi stands out as qui...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:21 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Breaking into clay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8286
Re: Breaking into clay
Thanks all, this has given me some things to ponder!
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:19 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Puzzled wannabe Yixing buyer
- Replies: 203
- Views: 84212
Re: Puzzled wannabe Yixing buyer
Does brewing gyokuro in a too large pot have negative effects on the outcome, or is it more about tradition? absence, mostly because if the vessel is too big and the water might not cover all the leaves. This is rarely the case when making sencha, which uses more water per leaf. Oh right! I've actu...
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:40 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Breaking into clay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8286
Re: Breaking into clay
absence where did you get the impression from that Yixing and Sheng Puerh is a classic combination??? It seems to often come up in Western tea circles, and was just my impression. Thanks for providing more details! Go for a Hongni or Zini and take it from there. Do you think it matters much if its ...
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:15 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Puzzled wannabe Yixing buyer
- Replies: 203
- Views: 84212
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 6:47 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Breaking into clay
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8286
Re: Breaking into clay
There is not the clay that will show you all the best things in one. Again, that's not what I'm looking for. If you want to see the extreme of a clay that will be totally obvious, I would suggest the Kobiwako clay and what it does to greener teas. Thanks! Even though Yixing and sheng puer seems to ...