Help me match my pots with some tea

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Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:27 pm

tealifehk wrote:
Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:27 am
I'd go: medium roast Wuyicha/TGY for the smallest (not Taiwanese TGY though). Dancong and black tea would also work well in it.
high mountain oolong in the middle-sized ones, or balled oolongs with larger sessions, but nothing very high roast. This pot could also be used for dry storage sheng
Big one is a definite pu erh pot; young or dry storage sheng IMO. Nothing that would benefit from muting.
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Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:18 am

Good aged sheng is not cheap, but if you can afford to brew it in a 150ml pot, in terms of performance it would do well.
For aged oolong, I'd use the 80ml pot, because again good aged oolong is expensive.
I use these two for aged oolong, depending on the effect I want to get:
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Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:57 pm

steanze wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:18 am
Good aged sheng is not cheap, but if you can afford to brew it in a 150ml pot, in terms of performance it would do well.
For aged oolong, I'd use the 80ml pot, because again good aged oolong is expensive.
I use these two for aged oolong, depending on the effect I want to get:
Beautiful pots! ;)
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Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:11 pm

Bok wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:57 pm
Beautiful pots! ;)
;) biandeng is one of my favorite shapes
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:18 am

steanze wrote:
Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:11 pm
Bok wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:57 pm
Beautiful pots! ;)
;) biandeng is one of my favorite shapes
Yes totally beautiful form.... wow
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:25 am

steanze wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:18 am
For aged oolong, I'd use the 80ml pot, because again good aged oolong is expensive.
I use these two for aged oolong, depending on the effect I want to get:
How is the effect you get in a hongni? does it have any porosity?
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:43 am

Yes, but a lot less than zini/qingshuini
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:45 am

steanze wrote:
Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:43 am
Yes, but a lot less than zini/qingshuini
Hi steanze, saw some of your posts on clayware, quite helpful. I have 3 pots I bought from EoT that I use as follows: Zini for aged Sheng, Qing Shui Ni for roasted Oolongs, Hongni for Hong (I'm thinking of turning this into an all purpose pot instead of one dedicated to only Blacks). My 4th pot is a generic Purple Clay Zisha (mixed clay I think) that I use for Shu. My decisions to use them this way was mostly random, but from your comments it looks like a reasonable pairing choice.
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:42 am

I'm happy you found the posts helpful. Yes, your pairing is also what I would have done.
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:15 pm

steanze wrote:
Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:42 am
I'm happy you found the posts helpful. Yes, your pairing is also what I would have done.
BTW - does a neizhaweihong functions like zini? or does the fact that it is covered with hongni makes it "harder"?
(I'm asking since I have a similar setup just that my zini is a neizi
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:19 pm

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BTW - does a neizhaweihong functions like zini? or does the fact that it is covered with hongni makes it "harder"?
(I'm asking since I have a similar setup just that my zini is a neizi
works as a zini :)
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:19 pm

But you don't have to take my word for it, if you have another zini pot, try both and compare them
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