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by lUKAV28
Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:17 am
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Replies: 2051
Views: 923838

Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking

Sunsing Yiwu Sheng 2007, comes out really nice in this Wuni pot... Bok What is the specialty of wuni clay? Ha, that is a tricky question... in general there is no black clay per se in Yixing. Black colour is achieved by reduction and/ash firing (for the older pots, newer ones uses additives in gene...
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 09, 2020 1:32 pm
Forum: Oolong Tea
Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Replies: 2775
Views: 1512757

Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking

I found the perfect match for my tiny Hokujo pot. Mr. Chen summer dong ding that I received with my last thetea.pl club did the magic. Tea was so pleasant and flavorful. I don’t have much experience with oolongs but man, every time I try something like this I am hooked. This tea was processed by Mr....
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 09, 2020 1:14 pm
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What HeiCha are you drinking
Replies: 562
Views: 303048

Re: What HeiCha are you drinking

How is the EoT club? Does it wind up being a lot of liu bao? On the one hand I like the idea of tea clubs and getting interesting surprises like this I wouldn't normally get, but I have very little interest in most oolongs, greens, and even sheng, so I haven't found one yet that seems worth it to m...
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 09, 2020 12:50 pm
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Replies: 2051
Views: 923838

Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking

Bok wrote:
Sat Feb 08, 2020 8:33 pm
Sunsing Yiwu Sheng 2007, comes out really nice in this Wuni pot...
@Bok What is the specialty of wuni clay?
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:08 am
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Replies: 2051
Views: 923838

Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking

Today I woke up with Ontario 1357 shou pu erh from whispering pines tea. I stored it for some time now as I enjoy shou mainly during the winter and stocked too much shou cakes. Classic shou profile, creamy, tasty nothing much else to say. I love that is a 100g cake so I can move to other cakes fairl...
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:17 am
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Replies: 2051
Views: 923838

Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking

Farmer Leaf’s spring 2019 jingmai miyun. Light but tasty young tree sheng pu erh. ./download/file.php?id=4233 I posted some of my impressions on the 2016 version on teachat back then. I still haven't had any other sheng that went through such drastic changes in just a couple months, simply amazing....
by lUKAV28
Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:24 am
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Replies: 2051
Views: 923838

Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking

Farmer Leaf’s spring 2019 jingmai miyun. Light but tasty young tree sheng pu erh.
by lUKAV28
Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:07 pm
Forum: Fermented Tea
Topic: What HeiCha are you drinking
Replies: 562
Views: 303048

Re: What HeiCha are you drinking

After a night run I decided to treat myself with 1990 wuzhou first grade aged liu bao that was part of essence of tea’s January tea club. I really started to enjoy liu bao very much. It was quite a treat to warm my freezing body with it. I love that clean earthiness flavor in the winter. This tea is...
by lUKAV28
Wed Jan 29, 2020 2:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tea logs
Replies: 6
Views: 3303

Re: Tea logs

I use a Tea Ave mobile app. It is nice little app that on one hand keeps an archive of my currently stocked/already gone tea in one place. It allows me to add pictures of the tea/wrappers and it automatically calculates the amount of consumed tea every time I brew some. On the other hand I can make ...
by lUKAV28
Sat Jan 25, 2020 3:16 pm
Forum: Japan
Topic: Toju brown clay
Replies: 7
Views: 4284

Re: Toju brown clay

I received a Toju pot from Asako as a gift with a note that Toju is her Sencha teacher’s favorite potter. I was interested in the clay as I haven’t heard about Toju before so she told me he uses the clay collected from a rice field. He than makes the clay by himself in a primitivne way. She encourag...
by lUKAV28
Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:40 am
Forum: Archived Swaps
Topic: Yamada Sou Mayake Kyusu
Replies: 30
Views: 13521

Re: Yamada Sou Mayake Kyusu

I bought Sou's smurf back handle pot and shudei kyusu in November. I bought shudei solely for tasting the clay as I didn't think much about its looks but I must say that in-person shudei pot is so much prettier. I actually prefer it over the smurf one. Back handled smurf pot has a weird ergonomy. Ma...
by lUKAV28
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A bit of gossip about TC...
Replies: 49
Views: 21905

Re: A bit of gossip about TC...

It's kind of a different subject, but not completely unrelated, that discussion forums tend to morph on their own, even when they don't tend to come unglued as Tea Chat and Steepster did. The Reddit r/tea owners tried to steer their group back towards discussion, and away from people just posting p...
by lUKAV28
Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:39 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reflecting on my first several weeks of my new tea life adventure
Replies: 19
Views: 7882

Re: Reflecting on my first several weeks of my new tea life adventure

My go-to tea used to be twinnings green tea with lemon with occasional loose leaf tea I bought or got here and there. So it felt natural to start my tea journey with sencha. I remember during that time that I wanted only tea from Japan. I read as much as I could on the old tea forum about Japanese g...
by lUKAV28
Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:24 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Your First Teapot... show off!
Replies: 33
Views: 14803

Re: Your first teapot... show off!

As for many my first pot was kyusu too. I got into teas via Japanese greens and was reading a lot about Tokoname and Banko clay before picking up this Shoryu tokoname kyusu. I adore this pot even today. Fantastic pour. And I just love it’s handle. Only downside is its size. At 300ml it is just too b...
by lUKAV28
Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:49 pm
Forum: Black Tea
Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
Replies: 680
Views: 342458

Re: What Black Are You Drinking

Today I opened a pack of Japanese black Tea I bought approx. two years ago and totally forgot about. It is Zairai Gokase Black Tea. What surprised me the most when I opened the pack was its looks. It was greenish, partly rolled and with stems so it reminded me more of an oolong than black tea. I cau...