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- Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:45 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Between Two Teapots podcast
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6853
Re: Between Two Teapots podcast
It was interesting reading that summary, thanks. I saw that podcast then, so I vaguely remember it, but details about what someone said 9 months ago don't stick with me. It was especially interesting hearing comments on how it was portrayed, or if setting up and comparing an old school and new schoo...
- Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:29 pm
- Forum: Herbal Tea
- Topic: What Herbal Are You Drinking
- Replies: 78
- Views: 71611
Re: What Herbal Are You Drinking
Steepster has been pretty dead for a few years. I would check it once in awhile up to a year or so ago, less this year, and there were still people lurking around, but minimal discussion activity. It's hard to say how many people were still using it for reviews; maybe a good number, or maybe not man...
- Mon Nov 22, 2021 2:18 am
- Forum: Herbal Tea
- Topic: What Herbal Are You Drinking
- Replies: 78
- Views: 71611
Re: What Herbal Are You Drinking
It's funny looking back at this last comment I made, mentioning David's Tea and Adagio, about how I've seen relatively disturbing allegations about both owners in the last week. The issue with the "David" guy--who probably already sold his David's shares--stemmed from claims his new tea business was...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 4:10 am
- Forum: Herbal Tea
- Topic: What Herbal Are You Drinking
- Replies: 78
- Views: 71611
Re: What Herbal Are You Drinking
In the name of more complete conversation it will work to go further here, and consider what I'm talking about related to standard blends and health claims. These are going to be random selections, but it should make some point: https://www.davidstea.com/us_en/tea/pomegranate-echinacea/10898US01VAR0...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:36 am
- Forum: Herbal Tea
- Topic: What Herbal Are You Drinking
- Replies: 78
- Views: 71611
Re: What Herbal Are You Drinking
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, eating dried cranberries would seem the most direct path. No matter how those are prepared they won't infuse properly. That said I do like the idea of resurrecting tisane blends for health purposes. I wouldn't trust anyone to have put in enough research and d...
- Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:03 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Can a GABA tea be an oolong?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6205
Re: Can a GABA tea be an oolong?
They process the tea in a nitrogen environment so the normal reactions associated with oxygen, oxidation, don't occur. According to a comment on Tillerman Tea's post the equivalent chemical reaction of nitrogen with enzymes can still be called oxidation, since it relates to a comparable chemical rea...
- Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:39 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Can a GABA tea be an oolong?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6205
Re: Can a GABA tea be an oolong?
I was looking for something else and came across this. Even back when this was posted, in 2018, gaba black teas were around, and they seem to be more common now. It's the same question, if gaba black teas can be considered the same thing and the same category as the rest of black teas. I'm not so in...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:16 pm
- Forum: Herbal Tea
- Topic: What Herbal Are You Drinking
- Replies: 78
- Views: 71611
Re: What Herbal Are You Drinking
I tried a couple of commercial blend compressed bars of tisanes from Moychay recently. I'll not mention more about the details or the post here (in Tea in the Ancient World), since part of the idea of mentioning this here instead of the blogger corner is to pass on that. https://imgur.com/IgsoZpS To...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:07 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: US tea production, the Great Mississippi Tea Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5478
Re: US tea production, the Great Mississippi Tea Company
About combining two threads with overlapping but separate themes, I don't get that part. No tea version really justifies itself for anyone to clearly need to buy it. I can think of examples of what I see as the best value per type for experienced aspect range in vendor sources, but someone else coul...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:05 am
- Forum: Groups, Clubs, & Events
- Topic: Filipino tea culture?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10542
Re: Filipino tea culture?
Kind of slow to be checking in on this. One of my earliest online tea contacts was a woman in the Philippines who was into better tea. It was too early; others just weren't on that page. Later I talked regularly with one of the main vendors promoting specialty tea there (the Teavolution founder, if ...
- Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: US tea production, the Great Mississippi Tea Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5478
American tea, Great Mississippi Tea Company versions
American tea, Great Mississippi Tea Company versions: I just tried the first American tea I've had. Both versions were pretty good, and interesting for being novel. The oolong was made in a Taiwan style, except for not being ball-rolled, and they matched the main flavor range in that unusually well,...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:00 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Sheng puerh taste slightly sour-sweet ok to drink?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2763
Re: Sheng puerh taste slightly sour-sweet ok to drink?
This reminds me of a friend who reviews teas describing a lot of sheng as sour, seemingly either meaning something different than I would mean by that, or related to "picking up" something I'm missing. We don't drink identical teas all that much; I mean that if he notices it in one third of all the ...
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:59 pm
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Tea evaluation template
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3393
Re: Tea evaluation template
That post is familiar. Mouthfeel and aftertaste / finish are on the table, but balance and complexity are not. Complexity would indirectly come up in describing aspects but balance is something else; that would be a good addition, even if listed in with intensity so that notes could address one or b...
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 2:00 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Tea evaluation template
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3393
Tea evaluation template
I wrote a blog post about creating an evaluation template for tea. I don't use that for writing reviews, but I've ran across versions of that type of thing before, and helped a friend by creating this version for their business purpose evaluation. It's essentially the same types of content I conside...
- Fri May 28, 2021 3:24 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: US tea production, the Great Mississippi Tea Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5478
Re: US tea production, the Great Mississippi Tea Company
Has anyone tried these teas? I've not, but Jason is sending me some to try for review. They are using consultant support to grow, harvest, and process the teas, but still it seems problematic for them to reach the same standard final quality as Chinese teas within 6 or 8 years of the plants first g...