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Having some Lishan Dongpian, Jason of Teaful Victoria shared with me when we met for tea. I only had something similar once before, a tea which had been named pine tree snow, due to exactly those notes coming through, a walk in a sunlit snowy pineforest and its unique smells. This one is definitely...

8D5C7AFD-D68D-43DF-9179-931A080E0F5D.jpeg Beautiful texture on your Futa-oki (lit and ladle rest). I am still looking for a nice bamboo or wood lid rest for my kyusu lids. Would be nice to have a proper place for the lid in between sessions, since I always leave the lid off to avoid cooking the tea...

Those zebra mussels are invasive and predatory and they love clogging up municipal dirty pipes. They have been a big problem in Europe for some time. Austin has its hands full with water.

Found a jewel in the haystack. After finishing still drinkable open packs of sencha, I’m now going through unopened packs of Japanese greens I unfortunately didn’t refrigerate. This one is very high quality from 11/30/2017, it is excellent. Anyone recognize this one? The light yellow liquor is very ...

Wow. My o-cha ordered just arrived. I immediately cracked open the satsuma. It's excellent. I'm gna try to get through this one and the yatuka midori before I get into the aoi. Oh, I recommend after getting greens in the mail to wait 24-48hrs to let tea acclimatize to room temperature, and then to ...

Wow. My o-cha ordered just arrived. I immediately cracked open the satsuma. It's excellent. I'm gna try to get through this one and the yatuka midori before I get into the aoi. Oh, I recommend after getting greens in the mail to wait 24-48hrs to let tea acclimatize to room temperature, and then to ...

Definitely pays off to be disciplined, I even do the same with the more oxidised Taiwanese high mountain teas, they last long unopened in the fridge, but once the seal is broken, the best qualities dissolve rather fast... Which oolong are you refrigerating, ...ones like LiShan? I’ve so far only ref...

Sometimes if the tea is particularly fresh or expensive, or at times like now, Chinese New Year with loads of time and little to do :) Mostly I do finish a 150 pack in 2-3 weeks, while drinking other teas at the same time. I buy my teas per jin, so 600g, packed in 4. So the smallest unit I have is ...

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Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:07 pm

Also helps to get to know a tea well if you drink away 150g in the matter of little more than a week

Are you drinking 150gr per week? That’s a lot oolong.

Having finished Satsuma, and still not 100% over the flu, I decided to finally finish every open pack of sencha before opening any new ones. A few were pretty old from 2016 to ‘17/early ‘18. Made big unstructured steeps with Jozan III 300ml kyusu, using 11-18gr at a time, mixing Sae/Yutaka Midori/Ch...

Dat is da bomb. Hilarious.

I purchased one of the medium grade sencha from Hibiki-an and have been doing 5-6g with 200ml in a kyusu, but reading the recent posts here it sounds like I should up the leaf to water ratio. Hibiki-an says to go 1 minute 2-3 infusions @80°C / 176°F. A tea friend of mine who only drinks Japanese gr...

today, i received a kettle by TSUNOKAKE Masashi: ........ it appears to be glazed everywhere except for the the base of the exterior. the interior is glazed, but it still sweats profusely through bottom. the glaze must be porous. i look forward to seeing its effect on water. Baisao I think mentione...

Chip Victoria Jo thank you all for your help, I've just placed an order for bag of the satsuma sae midori and aoi. Should get them sometime this week! :D Woohoo, keep us posted, anxious to see how you like them, you will not be disappointed I'm sure. Okay, great choices Teachronicles. As a referenc...

today, i received a kettle by TSUNOKAKE Masashi: ........ it appears to be glazed everywhere except for the the base of the exterior. the interior is glazed, but it still sweats profusely through bottom. the glaze must be porous. i look forward to seeing its effect on water. How are you finding thi...