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LeoFox wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:24 pm

I'm surprised there's no discussion of products from this vendor here, esp since the owner is our very own aet.

https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/

I follow yunnancraft on IG, didn't know it was aet. I'm already lurking on the site

Here in Florida, the summer heat has given way to some fall coolness. I was out having too much fun and caught a cold. Runny nose, headache, just miserable. I wanted some tea and brewed up some nice Taiwanese hong cha. The texture and flavors were delightful. So delightful that I forgot about being ...

Leo, we agree on a lot of things but this is not one of them. Cease and desist!!

2020 Wild Yuchi Black Tea: I dipped back into the last of my 2020 bag now that I can procure it from a couple of sources :D. When I had it previously it tasted like rum cake to me but that when it was brewed in a kohokujo pot.. This time I brewed it in a nosaka oxidation pot and got different notes....

Hojo's Wen Shan Bao Zhong Special: A friend said it was like being in a beautiful field of flowers and she enjoyed the perfume like aroma. Later I let her try some hong cha and she hated it :D ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The baozhong really is special, and I could drink it all day without any fatigue. Sometimes no ma...

If I drag a sack of leaves to a village somewhere near Yiwu then I can sell it for much more right? Let's be honest consumers are marks in all countries. I'm sure even the most experienced among us has been bit by fake tea. I'm producing some DAYI NFTs, anyone interested?!

Yes, I'm the author of the blog.. Thanks for understanding and following our blog! ;-) I really appreciate the smart tea buyer section of your wbsite. I've danced in the minefields, come away with some war wounds but I don't want others to follow behind me :D. Your site and others like Tillerman re...

Gushu Dian Hong from Hojo:

First steep, brown sugar and honeyed notes
Later steeps muscat grapes, tasted very close to wine.
Very enjoyable with a seductive aroma.

I retain the right to be a skeptic at all times. My early tea experiences with vendors and their tall tales was not pleasant. Worse than punji stick traps with poo on the end of the stick. It was also very costly. I guess it comes with the territory when you are selling something, but the outright B...

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Mon Aug 23, 2021 8:07 pm

klepto wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:19 pm

150g of lishan

Standard issue mate

I've gotten immersed into gaoshan lately so I have 40g of Li shan from hojo but my hong cha addiction is also requiring funds from my tea budget .

Bottom 9g in the 150g bag of lishan. Brewed casually in a thick, thinly glazed kyusu. Pushed with long infusions, the last bit of tea was still creamy and savory-sweet. ./download/file.php?id=10031 ./download/file.php?id=10030 ./download/file.php?id=10029 150g of lishan :shock: I had some Li shan l...

They really go heavy handed on the marketing. The material looks good to me, yet pushing the marketing this much for white tea is super overkill. Almost like they aren't going to rely on the tea itself but push an image of sophistication. They might as well be selling cigarettes :D. To me the packag...

Tongmuguan Laocong Yecha Taoke 2019 from Daxue:

Wonderfully thick tea liquor that tasted exactly like a malted milk chocolate candy(whopper).
The more sessions I did the better it tasted. Very rich and delicious. Its on my buy list

It took me a while to appreciate things in tea besides the taste, and how to perceive those things during my session. Texture && Sensations: I had some Jinmudin recently and after the 2nd steep my mouth was completely numb and I was very relaxed. Shui Xian makes whole jaw feel heavy and it leaves so...

Well now, allow me to say that Daxue Jidao has brought some wonderful experiences to my tea drinking. I jumped into the yancha rabbit hole very early but I never got the true essence of yancha when the quality was so-so. So many times I've had yancha where the roast totally overpowered the expected ...