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OCTO wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:39 am

A different feel....

a fine fleet of pots

I love citrus in herbal tea blends, and I like citrus flower scented tea, but when I think of citrus flavoring C sinensis tea, Earl Gray comes to mind and I cringe. I don't know enough about Yuzu to really have a good sense of whether that would be a good thing compared to some other citrus possibil...

Darrel wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:23 am

2009 Lao Cha Tou

where from?

I still have a little bit left of bricks of compressed Lucha two from 2009 from Norbu, and I believe Yunnan sourcing had some packaged under their own label that might've been from the same or very similar source.

without even knowing it, I've been celebrating national hot tea day with friends and colleagues all day....first Da Hong Pao from Wing Hop Fung, and now on to Halmonicha from Jeon Yae Yuen.
Mmmm.... hot tea is fine on a very chilly day.

I recently bought a Stagg without a gooseneck spout for work. I had a combination that had been working reliably for a very long time, I think it was a Bonavita base and a Gourmia kettle body, and apart from occasional descaling, everything was OK except...no hold mode. As soon as it gets up to temp...

an interruption in the daily Kabuse Sencha start for more of the Orchid Dew green tea from Mauna Kea Tea.
it is also a lovely tea grandpa style as I'm doing today, in the Flower of Forgetfulness.

Finished celebrating the New Year in Tea with a session of Orchid Dew green tea from MaunaKea tea, a special occasion treat that was reliably lovely as always--delicately floral, a little vegetal, and a little leaf goes a long way.

IMG_6523.jpeg starting the new year off with a very specialty from Morning Crane via TeaBuy Korea: Nok Goryeo Dancha from Sin Mog. This is an amazing tea that comes compressed in a tuo-shaped ball composed if delicate small leaves that cannot be pried apart without breaking a lot of them--I imagine...

Today started with some Kabuse sencha from O-Cha, fresh vegetables with a little sweet floral note; then a bit of Shan Lin Xi winter oolong from Floating Leaves, rich and delicate light roast tea; and finished with a long session with Forest Genie puerh from Hatvala, a lovely puerh-style loose tea t...

It is a subtle piece that I bet shines in person where you can move it in the light as you're working with it and drinking from it, and I bet it seems very lively that way.

interesting that the extra funk is associated with the cherry afterwards... I would not have expected that.

lovely *and* lefty, wow!

That's a striking shibo. The deliberate pinholes look like they lend it an interesting texture as well as being beautiful. it is a favorite that feels good in the hand with a mix of coarse clay, slick shino, matte and shiny textures, curves and straight lines and sharp angles, and it makes a fine c...

Kabuse sencha from O-Cha to start the morning....Petr Novak teawares, and Arthur Friso tea table, a fine start to a holiday day