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For your kettle to crack, you would have to subject it to thermal shock. So pouring cold water into a (very) hot kettle, or boiling water into a (very) cold kettle. The type and quality of the material is what determines how big a temperature differential it can handle, but cold water and room temp ...

So here is a silly question: For White2Tea's tea club is there, like, a pattern in what is sent out? Not particularly. There are some months where you can expect a certain type of tea, but other than that it can be basically anything. It can be just some tea (that may or may not end up for sale on ...

Paul has a few words on white tea grades in the September tea club.

i mean these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SO3WX2I/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08SKY5N5L/ I don't know anything about that specific company or their teas, but they ship themselves directly from Japan, so at least it shouldn't be terrible. The matcha seems too cheap to be anything but culinary gr...

In terms of white tea grades, it goes something like this: Silver needle > Bai Mu Dan > Gong Mei > Shou Mei. Bai Mu Dan is bud plus a few leaves. Don't remember off the top of my head if the farmer is "allowed" to do a silver needle pick first, or if bai mu dan has to be the first pick. Gong Mei is ...

The Yu Lan Xiang and Da Wu Ye were both obviously flavoured with additives, with the base tea not having much flavour on its own. Are there any tells that a tea might be artificially flavored? Not just for Dan Cong but in general. I ordered a bunch of teas a while back that had vibrant first and se...

I have this one from AliExpress. We'll see how long the glass pitcher lasts, but so far, so good
It can be a little fiddly to pack, but is otherwise quite nice. If you're looking for something compact, I can recommend it.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000195373722.html

So, what is white tea supposed to be? That's a good question. The most common way to describe it seems to be something along the lines of light and fresh. However, I suspect that it's mostly something that gets repeated by people that either don't really know what they're talking about or have only...

Sheng My experience with his sheng is somewhat limited, but I can recommend the 2009 Jingmai brick and 2016 Diving Duck. If you're into huangpian, the 2016 Fade would be worth looking into, I suppose. Personally I don't care much for huangpian, though, so... meh. The Green Hypes are solid, if somew...

I have some stuff in paper bags inside of tins and it seems to do pretty alright, but might be more susceptible to temp changes for better or worse than a thicker material. I use fermentation/conservation crocks. In my experience, they do smooth out temperature changes, but it's nothing drastic. Mo...

TeaTotaling wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:10 am

At some point active, induced, fermentation ceases giving way to post-fermentation.

Perhaps, but usually the term is used to refer to the wet-piling process specifically and not anything happening after.

The way I like to put it is that tea bags go from terrible to decent, while loose leaf goes from terrible to amazing.

It also depends on the kind of tea. Black tea, for example, works fine in bags, but green tea is best avoided.

i picked up yunnan sourcing's "drunk on red" (2018 picking) and now i'm super interested in compressed black teas. i don't know why i can't find any others on the sites i know of, there is a yunnansourcing 2020 compressed black tea, but that's all they have. definitely going to pick up some more ag...

LeoFox wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:59 pm

Has anyone tried yunnan sourcing dan cong? A friend of mine thinks it is sprayed but he is not very experienced.

Price seems good..

I have only tried the Phoenix Village "Da Wu Ye". It wasn't obviously tampered with.

Thanks everyone, I already feel welcome. Like I said, I'm drinking too much tea at the moment haha, so tasting a lot and gaining insight fast. I will check out those other european sites, and definitely keep an eye on the new amsterdam place when it will open, thank you! i just checked the yunnan s...