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- Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Kombucha
- Replies: 6
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Re: Kombucha
I kept meaning to start a kombucha thread. I've been making my own since March. It is such an interesting beverage. I dont buy into the lofty claims of almost any food/drink. I have not tried many commercial variants. My wife and I drink one every night. I've experimented with lots if black teas and...
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: Archived Swaps
- Topic: YQH Puerh for Sale 2004 Dinji Yesheng
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3508
YQH Puerh for Sale 2004 Dinji Yesheng
http://www.yangqinghao.com/index.php/teas/2004-dingji-yesheng James at Teadb does a good review of this tea. https://teadb.org/2004-yqh-dingji/ I bought this cake a couple of months ago. It is known to be an excellent tea for its chi, but I am kind of dense to this. I'd like to pass it on to someone...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:47 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Yunnan Sourcing Young Sheng Tasting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1688
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 1:21 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Yunnan Sourcing Young Sheng Tasting
- Replies: 2
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Yunnan Sourcing Young Sheng Tasting
2019 Nan Po Zhai 2020 Jue Se 2020 Huang Shan Gu Shu 2020 Bada Mountain 3-4g samples. 1 gaiwan is bigger than the others Nan Po Zhai was very green tasting. Bitter and grassy. Strong aroma towards tip of nose and tongue. Kept up bitterness through 4 or 5 steeps. Jue Se smelled of tobacco. First steep...
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2051
- Views: 924627
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
I like the cake too but for a different reason. It it the sweetest puerh tea I've ever tasted. More so than any other Yiwu teas from Wistaria or YQH. However, it has the most smoke in all my puerh cakes. I can still smell and taste the smoke at my last (9th) infusion. The Qi was not that strong for...
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:58 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2051
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- Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2051
- Views: 924627
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
2005 Bulang double lion (from TWL) 15 year old Malaysian stored tea, still with some power. I cant imagine how this tasted young. Good body, some nice sweetness. Not much in terms of storage notes. A little bit of smoke, but not much. An aspirin-like bitterness in steeps 3-8ish, but not unpleasant t...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
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Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
I really appreciate everyones input on this thread. It has sparked a lot of thought for me. I think my major take away is that I am NOT going to charge forward and buy lots of young sheng. When I read about collectors who have amassed a lifetimes worth of tea, I can see my future. There's a point we...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:07 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
iron cakes, yet a new term that i have heard of but didnt know that it was anything more than just a name. need to go look that one up as well. i do have an iron cake from clt. I think iron cakes were made to combat the traditional storage methods of Hong Kong. Their tight pressing helped them age ...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:03 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
So care to share what the tea was that you bought? I'd rather not say specifically. I dont know if it is the tea, or if I'm not ready for the tea yet. I will say that it is supposed to be much more oriented to the chi realm. It is not so much known for flavor. I hope that I can learn to open up to ...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:19 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
The type of tea that someone buys from the internet, without seeing, smelling, tasting before buying. There are no real life tea shops within 1.5 hours of my home. Curious, who have you been buying your Puerh from mostly? Developing a relationship with a few vendors, that are in alignment with your...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:39 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
Unfortunately, with internet tea, price is the most obvious metric for value. How have you arrived at this conclusion, if you don't mind my asking? What is an internet tea in contrast to a non-internet tea. I'm not familiar with these categories. The type of tea that someone buys from the internet,...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:02 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
You need to drink and drink and drink. Then drink and drink some more. Try to get less caught up on the price of the tea. Price in puerh is like price in wine. It's the exact same. There are some v. good Bulgarian and California wines that will NEVER reach the price point of such and such French wi...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 11:51 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
Some great info here. Thanks everyone. I also spent the last few days going through the puerh section on teachat. I made it back to 2014, reading threads that caught my eye. I see what a lot of people are saying. I was assuming that since western storage started about 10-15 years ago in earnest, we'...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:32 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
- Replies: 54
- Views: 20616
Re: Buying Pu'erh for the long haul
A lot of those early pu'er drinkers dropped out of the tea-hobbyist scene completely, or found that things were ending not where they expected. Two good folks to look into, I think, are David Lee Hoffman and Mike Petro, who are both good representations of a certain type of pu'er tea-buyer. Thanks ...