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Thank you all very much for your help and advice. Turns out that a bit of good tea completely fixed the situation. First attempt at gongfu cha style with Wenshan Bao Zhong spring tea was a fantastic experience! I could've used a bit more tea imo but got maybe 6-7 steeps after a wash, tasted like liq...

Ethan Kurland wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:24 am

A reminder: The important issues are quality of tea, quality of water, and preparation (time and temperature, amount of leaves; and your mouth--does it have salad dressing in it, did you eat a banana just before drinking tea?).

This cracked me up but point definitely taken. Thank you.

This is great information, thank you. I believe I understand the logic of the first step being longer, but having numbers to reference will definitely help. Working on improving my teas, unfortunately I decided that I'd place my first orders during Chinese New Year :P You do have me curious about th...

I weigh the tea but do not weigh the water when brewing as I'm filling the pot to the same spot so the amount of water isn't going to really change. Although I do use a scale to initially measure how large pots and cups are. I've got a thermapen for the water temp too, but that's more for sencha yo...

If you don’t want to go through the trouble of measuring, use this simple method which works for most Taiwanese Oolongs, provided you use a small-ish pot from 60-200ml size: use as many leaves as necessary so it covers the bottom of the pot, then adjust to taste and tea. Thank you Bok! I was a bit ...

Welcome to TeaForum. Jimtro are you in NYC, can’t see your introduction ? If you are near the city, I can recommend a few very good tea houses for oolong; Te Company and Tea Shop. A base line I use for Taiwan oolong is 6grams leaf/100ml water/just under boil water/45-1:13sec. Of course you can use ...

Thank you for the welcome, and your help with my oolong issue thread:)

As to the high mountain oolong, i sure hope to find something similar and I've actually ordered a few samples with my teapot.

Greetings tea people! I've sort of gone a bit around the protocol and posted in another thread first, that was rather rude and I should know better but always tend to jump right in...in this case to be greeted by very helpful/friendly members. Thank you! I've been brewing what I thought was decent t...

Get a cheap digital scale that can go to tenths of a gram. Like $10 on amazon. It will really help with your consistency. Thank you, I actually have a small one I use for baking bread. Results were so good with the bread that I'm disappointed I didn't think to use it for tea. Curious if you weigh t...

I've been experimenting with a 'formosa' oolong. The first time I tried it the flavor of peaches were almost overwhelming ...in a good way😀... unfortunately I'm not sure what I did. The next couple of tries have all seemed to taste like wet grass. Welcome to the forum, Jim. I agree with Bok and hav...

'formosa' oolong. The first time I tried it the flavor of peaches were almost overwhelming...in a good way😀... unfortunately I'm not sure what I did. The next couple of tries have all seemed to taste like wet grass. Is that what the tea's label says? The appellation Formosa oolong, without any furt...

Greetings! As someone rather new to brewing oolongs I seem to be having some issues with consistency. I've been experimenting with a 'formosa' oolong. The first time I tried it the flavor of peaches were almost overwhelming...in a good way😀... unfortunately I'm not sure what I did. The next couple o...