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- Fri May 31, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 484
- Views: 213566
Re: Your day in tea
I feel like maybe my unglazed teapot needs a tea-bath to clean up from all the tea-baths. :lol: The lid is now a distinctly different color than the body, and the bottom half is darker than the top half, only with more of a high-water-mark-from-the-flood effect than a cool fade, I'm guessing becaus...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:42 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: (Rant alert) – Finance my tea adventures!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 513
Re: (Rant alert) – Finance my tea adventures!
Social media influencers rely on "movie magic"; I'm sure that the tea-craftsmen following ancient traditions are also listening to something on their phones as they work, and that the hike up tea mountain ends at a Starbucks slightly-out-of-frame. :lol: So, "Finance my tea adventures!" is really, "F...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: importance of $/g ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1649
Re: importance of $/g ?
Price-per-gram helps for commodity pricing. This is based on the assumption that every gram of the substance is equivalent to every other gram, sort of like calculating the price-per-gram of silver. This is a bit odd for tea because not all grams of tea are the same. They taste different, have diffe...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 972411
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
These appear to be that rare exception. I do not read Chinese, and the OCR translation app on my phone only does one ideogram at a time. Since I will be sharing samples with several other people, and also for my own education, I'd like to know what I have here. Box and cake labels and nei fei attac...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:13 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 972411
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
More tinned Nor Sun; did the Hong Kong blender go out of business? The supply seems to have evaporated... fortunately I had a habit of buying extra tins when they were easy to find, so I still have a bit left.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boiled tea flavour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1923
Re: Boiled tea flavour
Supposedly this is related to the boiling of the water. When water is boiled a long time, it loses its aeration, which changes the taste of tea made with it. Thus, in many tea traditions where boiling tea is common, there is an aeration step before serving, such as the repeated pouring of the tea in...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 484
- Views: 213566
Re: Your day in tea
Green oolong is also a lot more forgiving than black tea. Agreed, green oolong is more forgiving. Is this related to Chinese tea vs. Indian tea? I haven't had very many Assamica oolongs, but Indian black teas are definitely unforgiving if you ignore the 5-minute steep warning, while a Keemun is hap...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Hong Kong style milk-tea (絲襪奶茶)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14790
Re: Hong Kong style milk-tea (絲襪奶茶)
I've given up on Yuenyeung -- either too advanced for me, or I just don't like instant coffee. :lol: Gave this another go -- It's still not quite right, but I think I'm getting closer. :D Maybe using the wrong instant coffee? I think maybe I was using an instant coffee that was too nice. :lol: Swit...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:32 am
- Forum: News, Publications, & Research
- Topic: Tea commercials
- Replies: 42
- Views: 30145
Re: Tea commercials
Or Brooke Bond Super Dust, a name that would have seemed very odd outside of India, but that worked quite well inside for describing a fresh dust-grade tea liked by a variety of tea-drinkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUsALWcsI2A A Brooke Bond India from today, for comparison: https://www.you...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:33 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What's the story behind "Nor Sun Pu-erh Tea"?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5619
Re: What's the story behind "Nor Sun Pu-erh Tea"?
I didn't think they were from the same supplier, but I've never done a side-by-side test. Maybe more important now that Nor Sun is getting harder to find -- did the company discontinue the brand?
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Does anyone believe anyone any more?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2550
Re: Does anyone believe anyone any more?
If you had been the first, then later people would have had the reverse problem, brewing strong gunpowder and suggesting sugar, only to receive, "Green tea doesn't need sugar!"
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not Tea, but Related
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1877
Re: Not Tea, but Related
With crumpets, I think it is economy of scale -- in the U.S., the English Muffin won out in the premade crumpet wars, so if a company offers a line of crumpets they have to price them with the idea that they won't sell as many of them, even though the fixed costs for baking them remain the same. Not...
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: American "bed & breakfast" tea-culture
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11383
Re: American "bed & breakfast" tea-culture
It seems like the U.S. struggles to support formal tearooms outside of unique markets, but there is a widespread "bed & breakfast" culture that has adopted tea as part of the package, which I find fascinating. I picked up a copy of a new-to-me book recently, Jan Whitaker's Tea at the Blue Lantern I...
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: "Neutral" Clays
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7291
Re: "Neutral" Clays
The effect of most high fired clays is in my experience relatively small compared to the effect of water, to the point I'd have a difficulty telling what effect does which of my pots have (however I have neither the most sensitive palate nor a great sense of smell). And there is no neutral water, u...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Georgean tea
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2528
Re: Georgean tea
Our debt to the Georgian tea industry is that they went through the very unprofitable process of breeding cold-resistant tea. If it had not been part of a planned economy process, I'm not sure it could have happened, as from what I hear, they just kept planting tea bushes and taking seeds from the h...