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by teasecret
Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: AFTER YANG (2022), movie on Showcase w/ tea significant
Replies: 5
Views: 1327

Re: AFTER YANG (2022), movie on Showcase w/ tea significant

filmed at puerh brooklyn, where I work! :)
by teasecret
Mon May 02, 2022 10:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What would you tell your novice self about tea
Replies: 60
Views: 15631

Re: What would you tell your novice self about tea

Loving the repeated focus on water.

What comes to mind otherwise is - don't try a stupid storage experiment - be conservative, keep the puer alive.
Make sure you pay attention to your own opinions and experiences rather than relying on those of others, but listen to others too.
by teasecret
Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Wow, that is an incredibly detailed approach to water for tea :shock: I wish I had that level of dedication to getting quality water, but I'll admit I usually just use tap water filtered through the fridge. The tap water where I live is decent enough, although a bit on the hard side. Thankfully I h...
by teasecret
Tue Jun 01, 2021 12:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

This was my water today - over the past two weeks I replicated water from the West tributary of the Pearl River Delta in China. This water flows all the way to Yunnan. I then made tea with it, and reported on it in this post! Finally my pure water is decent quality, so the water is becoming very enj...
by teasecret
Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

So happy with the feedback on the livestream! It seemed to clear up a lot and get to the important points and contexts of water and tea. A quick synopsis is up on the blog, but I'll make one here for this thread (in no particular order): I explained the seven major ions I talked about silica for a w...
by teasecret
Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Me and my water collaborator Arby will be on the Between Two Teapots livestream today at 5:30 eastern, 2:30 pacific time. https://youtu.be/adifAnrdBcc It will be all about water for tea! If you can join, please ask questions if you want in the livestream chat. What's cool is we will all be using the...
by teasecret
Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

I haven't had time to go through and read the entire thread yet, but I wanted to say I really love the research and information posted that I've read so far, especially the "recipe" for water from Empiral Tea's blog that Teasecret reported on. My municipal water is pretty hard, especially in the wi...
by teasecret
Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Quick update, The Truth Serum updated version as can be seen on my blog has been receiving a lot of positive feedback, some people saying it's the best water solution for tea they've ever used, and that it brings out new flavors with really good clarity. So, I'm really happy about that. Arby from em...
by teasecret
Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Do you consider Chlorides and Sulfates as beneficial for tea? I'm probably simplifying too much since things have to be considered in relation to other minerals, i guess, but still, what role do they play? And what is the difference Mg vs Ca in your opinion? Glad you found this post interesting! Ye...
by teasecret
Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

https://teasecrets.home.blog/2021/01/17 ... tap-water/

Replicated my tap water and did a cupping against the real thing! Learned a lot, check it out!
by teasecret
Sat Jan 16, 2021 1:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Iron pill & calcium pill to enhance water for tea?

So I think the main problem with using a pill is that a large amount of iron and calcium would dissolve. I would recommend sending tetsubin water to a lab similar to ward labs and analyzing it for iron. Then you could see how much is in there and potentially dissolve that amount yourself. I personal...
by teasecret
Sat Jan 02, 2021 5:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

I also noticed that my CaCO3 concentrate is often cloudy, even at only half a gram per 900ml. No idea why this would be, as MgCO3 concentrate is totally clear, but less useful. https://teasecrets.home.blog/2021/01/02/water-recipe-2-2-3-heavy/ Were you using MgCO3 or MgSO4? The former should be almo...
by teasecret
Sat Jan 02, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

Thanks Rickpatbrown for the experiment! That all makes sense to me. Probably with the medium strength water, the "pure water taste" was able to come through with all of its fragrance, without getting too muted by any excess bicarbonates, and the calcium hardness was there to extract a nice presence....
by teasecret
Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

This is fantastic! I fully support this approach. Its interesting that you are looking at differnet teas with the same water. I would have done the opposite, 3 waters with one tea. I think it would be easier to taste the effects of different water than trying to recall back to a previous day/week s...
by teasecret
Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?
Replies: 471
Views: 241579

Re: Water Water Everywhere... What’s Your Water?

New post on a new water recipe collaboration with Empirical Tea, complete with tasting notes and ratings. Planning on doing this kind of thing weekly. Let me know what you think of it! https://teasecrets.home.blog/2020/12/30/water-recipe-1-truth-serum-1-0/ Here is Arby's post on the water recipe als...