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Bitterleaf teas is offering some higher grade longjing this year. It's crazy expensive tho, starts at 160$ for 100g. I was thinking of seeing if anyone wanted to group buy and split it up but I figured the price is mostly cause the demand is so high and its from one of the more famous regions. I opt...

I think for many of us here in the west, these 70s pots are pretty much unobtainable. If you can manage to find them, the prices are way out of line (over $1000). This puts the westerner in a very tough situation. From my reading, I have gotten the impression that Hongni after 1977 is not even wort...

This morning I started off with hauyin chens 100 year garden bug bitten light roast grandpa style, which it did very well with. Now I'm having a small serving (3g) in a 60ml gaiwan of heirloom tea company's light roasted da yu ling. Which is really good. Buttery sweet, some cinnamon aroma off the li...

Would you guys trust this? Price usd is around 700$, which seems pretty damn cheap to me for a 70s puer cake.

Bok wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:38 am

That said, I just had a 40year old DYL, so anything goes… if one can afford it.

How was it?

Another question, related to testing pots. You can brew a fair amount of tea in a pot before worrying about it influencing future brews right? Ive heard different things about how long it takes to season a pot so it'd be great to get some clarification. For roasted oolong I prefer Hokujo’s stellar ...

Another question, related to testing pots. You can brew a fair amount of tea in a pot before worrying about it influencing future brews right? Ive heard different things about how long it takes to season a pot so it'd be great to get some clarification.

Here's a 1960s hongni pot I recently got. As far as I can tell it's pretty thin walled, medium to high fired. From my testing so far it's very slightly muting compared to porcelain and really makes tea smoother. I would love to hear what tea everyone would pair it with. The pour is 12 seconds btw. ...

Steanze, thanks for making this thread, I think it will be very helpful for a lot of people. Here's a 1960s hongni pot I recently got. As far as I can tell it's pretty thin walled, medium to high fired. From my testing so far it's very slightly muting compared to porcelain and really makes tea smoot...

cabinets can definitely make your teaware smelly and negatively impact brewing. leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell. if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware. Does glazed ungla...

cabinets can definitely make your teaware smelly and negatively impact brewing. leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell. if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware. Does glazed ungla...

White2Tea just got in a few different types of dancongs in. Anyone have opinion on how they might be? I have ordered other stuff from here before and its been very hit or miss. http://white2tea.com/?s=dancong&post_type=product I can't speak to those Dan congs specifically but I enjoyed the traditio...

TheEssenceofTea wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:28 pm

Just to avoid confusion for newcomers.... Kang Zhuan isn't Liu Bao. This post appears to be mislabeled

Teachronicles wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:08 am

First heicha, and oh boy it's good. Bonus sunset pictures.

Sorry, your right. Thanks for the clarification.

tealifehk wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:59 am

Have you considered a glass display cabinet? All of my Yixings at home are in glass cabinets. It makes it easy to admire them without handling and I can pick which one I intend to use before I open the cabinet!

Yea, I was leaning towards a glass one, but wanted to ask anyways.

So I'm shopping for a storage/display cabinet for my teapots and a lot of the options are wood. I read somewhere (I think it was marshaln's blog but not sure) that teapots, scan absorb odors. Does this sound right? And will that affect tea brewed in the pots?