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- Sat May 27, 2023 10:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 482
- Views: 211191
Re: Your day in tea
Drinking some Simpson & Vail's "Fancy Darjeeling", a blend that was worked up (as far as I can tell) to taste like old-style Darjeeling. Not bad, although I don't have any old-style Darjeeling to compare it to. :) It took me a little while to understand Simpson & Vail as most of their teas I have tr...
- Thu May 18, 2023 12:48 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Assassin's Teapot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2498
Re: Assassin's Teapot
I think this is a new name for an old concept. Dual-chambered pots were for having tea with folks who refused to drink tea, so you could have tea in one chamber and coffee in the other. This was to save space from the older version where a tea-set in a mixed-drinking region would come with two pots,...
- Sun May 14, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2053
- Views: 963034
Re: What Pu'er Are You Drinking
More Nor Sun, such an agreeable low-effort tea. However, I'm not seeing it around anymore -- maybe the blend has been discontinued?
- Sat May 13, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lessons from Anosmia: Smell and Taste
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26129
Re: Lost taste due to Covid
Without my tea there is no longer any light in this world. Supposedly during lean years in China, people drank poor-man's "white tea" -- plain hot water. :) Not much flavor, but still an excuse to get together. When people get older, it is common for their sense of taste and smell to fade, although...
- Tue May 09, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: News, Publications, & Research
- Topic: Tea commercials
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29573
- Sat May 06, 2023 9:39 am
- Forum: News, Publications, & Research
- Topic: Tea commercials
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29573
Re: Tea commercials
Ah, I see this has been moved to "News, Publications, & Research". :) Interesting things going on with Canadian tea by 1995, as apparently a tea could be a tea if it was a caffeine-free frozen concentrate flavored like something else, although we do see a return of the Red Rose style dancing tea-man...
- Fri May 05, 2023 6:38 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2787
- Views: 1563398
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Still working my way through a batch of Mark T. Wendell's Royal Red Robe -- it was already starting to have those slightly tired old oolong notes when I got it, but is still in OK shape. Really agreeable. I'm not sure how they do their oolong blends, so I don't know if eventually someone will order...
- Thu May 04, 2023 9:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to make authentic Southern Iced Tea from scratch?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1407
Re: How to make authentic Southern Iced Tea from scratch?
Thank you for the informative and articulate response! In terms of the more modern popular black tea that Lipton, Arizona, Luizanne used to make their Southern Iced Tea, the Ceylon Uva/Kandy style tea that you've mentioned, is that more like black tea or dark tea? Or more specifically which of thes...
- Wed May 03, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to make authentic Southern Iced Tea from scratch?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1407
Re: How to make authentic Southern Iced Tea from scratch?
There are two schools for Southern iced tea, based on whether appearance is the most important thing or not. If it is, then the tea to go with is one that remains clear when cold. Under British standards this is usually treated as poor-quality tea, but as iced tea is often served in glass, having cl...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: "Russian Caravan" teas
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10403
Re: "Russian Caravan" teas
An 1869 opinion on Russian Caravan blends by the American Bayard Taylor, from his travelogue, "By-ways of Europe". In it, he also suggests another potential addition to Russian Caravan blends -- silver-needle tea. :) Given the geography, my guess would be Junshan Yinzhen tea from Hunan rather than ...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 12:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting article- "Where have all the tea bloggers gone?"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2127
Interesting article- "Where have all the tea bloggers gone?"
https://www.teaformeplease.com/where-have-all-the-tea-bloggers-gone/ Fortunately, tea-blogging seems to be bowl-shaped, in that while those in the middle of family or mid-career responsibilities sometimes struggle to do more than just drink the tea and enjoy it, both the young and the old enjoy talk...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 11:11 am
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2787
- Views: 1563398
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Some "Brandy Oolong" from Mark T. Wendell -- a polite name for a pleasant tea. If they were using older tea-terms, the accurate one would probably be "Winey Oriental Beauty", but without tea-context that seems like a name that wouldn't go over well...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:52 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 688
- Views: 364730
Re: What Black Are You Drinking
More Victorian Afternoon, a very nice smoked Russian Caravan from Mark T. Wendell. Personally, I think it is their strongest blend, as it relies on something they are good at (smoked tea) without being exclusively smoked tea, which I appreciate as someone who can only handle so much Lapsang Souchong...
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: Oolong Tea
- Topic: What Oolong Are You Drinking
- Replies: 2787
- Views: 1563398
Re: What Oolong Are You Drinking
Drinking some Tie Luo Han from Seven Cups -- like in previous years, theirs is a tea that loves a regular-old-5-minute-steep. :) If you are trying to tempt any tea-lovers into considering oolongs who might be more used to that format than gongfu or gaiwan brewing, I feel this is a good one. If they ...
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Can anyone help with identifying who made these teapots?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3008
Re: Can anyone help with identifying who made these teapots?
Following the provenance of the Ebay pot might help. See if you can get the seller to mention whose estate sale the pot was from. Some sellers won't want to say, while others are OK with this. Then, contact relatives and ask about if they remember the pot and where it came from. This can be an awkwa...