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- Wed May 25, 2022 10:29 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Ode to the Kyusu
- Replies: 634
- Views: 314045
Re: Ode to the Kyusu
Kyusu 👋 😉 😉 👏 and to the latest addition is my little brewing cauldron ! 120 ml Yamada Sou wood-fired Aoyu Kyusu , and becomes my current favorite too , LOVE the color , the discoloration, the shape , the beauty and the functionality . ./download/file.php?id=11678 ./download/file.php?id=11677 ./dow...
- Wed May 25, 2022 10:24 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: What Green Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1495
- Views: 701555
Re: What Green Are You Drinking
Good to have you with us.
I've been enjoying a lovely start to the tea-day with Mauna Kea Orchid Dew green tea. It is remarkably delicate, floral, free of bitterness, and just fired enough to stabilize the flavor. Marvelous stuff, and worth the remarkable price as a great treat.
I've been enjoying a lovely start to the tea-day with Mauna Kea Orchid Dew green tea. It is remarkably delicate, floral, free of bitterness, and just fired enough to stabilize the flavor. Marvelous stuff, and worth the remarkable price as a great treat.
- Tue May 24, 2022 9:06 pm
- Forum: Additional Regions
- Topic: Korean Teaware Showcase
- Replies: 60
- Views: 68251
Re: Korean Teaware Showcase
What a lovely tea session altogether
- Sun May 08, 2022 6:36 pm
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Black Tea Vendor Topic
- Replies: 38
- Views: 37518
Re: Black Tea Vendor Topic
I’m just coming here to finally report on a bunch of samples that I ordered from Yatra tea company. I ordered them several years ago, and the box arrived and sat unopen for an unconscionably long time and then I have been slowly working my way through the black tea samples, slowed in part because Ob...
- Wed May 04, 2022 10:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What would you tell your novice self about tea
- Replies: 60
- Views: 15821
Re: What would you tell your novice self about tea
(1) don't give up on a particular style of tea until you've tried a "daily drinker" and a "high-quality" version, prepared with the lighter infusion parameters you usually enjoy (less leaf!). I don't be surprised when sometimes what you prefer is the daily drinker version! (2) get over the green tea...
- Wed May 04, 2022 10:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Keeping lid on between steeps
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5617
Re: Keeping lid on between steeps
I most often leave the lid off or tilted open between early steeps of more delicate green/white/'green oolong' teas where I am seeking the most subtle sweetness and floral notes. But after that, or throughout with my traditional roast oolongs, balhyochas, puerhs and heichas and black teas, I leave i...
- Wed May 04, 2022 10:14 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2052
- Views: 931462
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
my regular leaf ratio ( 18-20gr ) That's a remarkable regular leaf ratio. What size is your regular pot? Yesterday I had a very nice session with Norbu's 2007 Yong De White bud sheng, in a shiboridashi about 120mL, 2-3 grams of leaf. This cake was my very first sheng whoever that I tasted and then ...
- Tue May 03, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2052
- Views: 931462
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
Sounds like it would be delightful to replicate that session at a more favorable hour of the day!
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:28 pm
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: How to clean a very deeply crackled chawan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2366
Re: How to clean a very deeply crackled chawan
I do routine cleaning on my very crackly cups with baking soda, and I’m quite pleased with that for normal use. I used the sodium percarbonate protocol Victoria described in the cleaning and resetting teawares topic for The flower of forgetfulness which is my most loved crackliest bowl: E935E9D2-36E...
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:52 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Glass Infuser/strainer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3067
Re: Glass Infuser/strainer
Perhaps I should’ve said “cheaper to replace the whole than to maintain a spare parts inventory.”
The same principal applies. I’ve never seen anyone carry in inventory of spare parts for small tea wares.
The same principal applies. I’ve never seen anyone carry in inventory of spare parts for small tea wares.
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:01 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: green tea/matcha powder?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2817
Re: green tea/matcha powder?
I have found that I can get away with a lower quality sencha when I am making Tea that will be drunk cold and carbonated.
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Celadon Appreciation
- Replies: 36
- Views: 42921
Re: Celadon Appreciation
I occasionally have moments of regret like that when I visit someone’s office to give them tea and remember why I liked and bought the cup that I gave to them and I’m filling with tea.
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:53 pm
- Forum: Teaware Artisans
- Topic: TXPCeramics
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7760
Re: TXPCeramics
I'm certainly not in a rush, as I've been wishing for this for years. I can make lots of infusion in smaller vessels that are comfy to use when preparing teas that are OK to 'stack'; or fewer infusions in larger vessels that burn my fingers and/or have lots of places for leaves to hide and are not t...
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:26 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2783
- Views: 1523007
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
2012 Zhong Ping Ji Dan Hua Dan Cong from Tea Habitat: floral, sweet, earthy, lovely. Brought out the little chao zhou teapot and tiny Kazuwa guinomi, for a very pleasant session.
- Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:08 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Glass Infuser/strainer
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3067
Re: Glass Infuser/strainer
These things are fragile, but they are also inexpensive. Cheaper to replace them to repair, sadly.