What Green Are You Drinking

[Bok]

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

[Victoria]

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.

[Bok]

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 150g

[Jo]

Our box from O- Cha arrived yesterday, woohoo, 10 bags of Japanese sencha.

Chip opened the Satsuma yesterday, today awesomely, deliciously sweet, full of umami , great brewing session.

Kudos to my personal brew master

[gatmcm]

Chip opened the Satsuma yesterday, today awesomely, deliciously sweet, full of umami , great brewing session.

Ordered some Satsuma as well after reading about it here, cant wait

[Victoria]

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 150g

Ha, @Bok you would make a great candidate for Japanese greens since they need to be consumed quickly after opening . With DongDing I’m trying to cut back on my typical 12gr in the morning, mainly because it cuts into my afternoon 6-8gr session. With sencha 100gr packs I struggle to finish an open pack within the optimal 3 weeks. But since I’ve had the flu it’s been all I’ve been having, finding Japanese greens hydrating and nourishing in a way that semi-roasted oolong doesn’t seem to be. No oolong for a week, that’s a record for me.

[Victoria]

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 refrigerated Japanese greens.

[Teachronicles]

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.

[Victoria]

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 open vacuum pack, reseal, and wait another 24hrs before steeping. Hope you like them.

[Teachronicles]

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 open vacuum pack, reseal, and wait another 24hrs before steeping. Hope you like them.

whoops

[Teachronicles]

I see why you guys like this so much. Umami, bittersweet (maybe due to my brewing, but I enjoy the added dimension to the sweetness and umami), and totally different profile than the yutaka midori @Jo. This is such a nice contrast to my usual teas of roasted TW oolongs, yancha, and aged puer.

[Victoria]

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 open vacuum pack, reseal, and wait another 24hrs before steeping. Hope you like them.

whoops

It’s probably fine, but tomorrow will be better. Since you are in San Francisco, you are next to the international postal hub, tea may have been in postal warehouse for a day or two already. The rest period is mostly because the belly of the plane is very cold, and condensation will form if a pack is suddenly opened, ruining the tea due to moisture.

[Teachronicles]

Oh, I recommend after getting greens in the mail to wait 24-48hrs to let tea acclimatize to room temperature, and then to open vacuum pack, reseal, and wait another 24hrs before steeping. Hope you like them.

whoops

It’s probably fine, but tomorrow will be better. Since you are in San Francisco, you are next to the international postal hub, tea may have been in postal warehouse for a day or two already. The rest period is mostly because the belly of the plane is very cold, and condensation will form if a pack is suddenly opened, ruining the tea due to moisture.

It was indeed in the warehouse for 2 days.

[Bok]

Which oolong are you refrigerating, ...ones like LiShan? I’ve so far only refrigerated Japanese greens.

Any high mountain, greenish Oolong. This way they stay fresh at least a year. I buy a lot more winter harvest that needs to last me the whole year.

[Victoria]

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 elegant and clear, sweet peas with a very pleasant slight upper palate expansive astringency that turns salivatory. Seems to be a very good Gyokuro. From packaging I'm reading Kyoto, Uji. It's possible I bought it at Ippodo when in NYC or O-Cha...

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Steeped in Kokuho Kiyomizu-ware houhin

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