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From: Iggy - 03 Sep 2008, 18:53
A quick question to those out there more familiar with Yunnan greens and raw pu-erhs: A year ago we ordered by mail a bunch of teas from Yunnan through tuochatea,com . Among those teas were a couple of large boxes of snow dragon, a very light green tea formed into little 1-inch corkscrews. In taste it reminded me of a bilochun, very mild and sweet with...
2 Posts. Last post send by: Iggy - Wednesday 03 Sep
From: Space Cowboy - 02 Sep 2008, 16:13
I found this interesting note from The Culture and Marketing of Tea, CR Harler, 1956, Oxford University Press, p69: "It was shown that fresh tea leaf carries a considerable bacterial flora, and foreign bacteria may be introduced during manufacture to give taints to the tea. Fermenting leaf may also carry moulds, and species of penicillium, asergillus,...
1 Posts. Last post send by: Space Cowboy - Tuesday 02 Sep
From: toci - 02 Sep 2008, 10:59
I have at least a month's worth of Assam and a bunch of greens. I'm going to put off my next tea order till October. Toci
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From: Square Peg - 30 Aug 2008, 22:52
After following this ng for awhile, I have been encouraged to learn more about tea and brewing a really good cup. I have come to the conclusion that I need better tools. One that I am about to purchase is the ingenuiTea from Adagio. This looks like the perfect tool for loose tea and expecially for multiple infusions, which I am just getting into. I...
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From: bookburn@yahoo,com - 30 Aug 2008, 21:12
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From: Alan - 28 Aug 2008, 18:37
I've been drinking a Ti Kuan Yin from said company that I picked up in an Asian supermarket in Las Vegas' Chinatown. At first I thought I liked it, but now it tastes like cigarette butts. Am I picking up flavors that I didn't notice earlier or am I maybe preparing it wrong? It doesn't seem like the highest quality tea, so I'm not surprised by the flavor. I...
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From: Square Peg - 27 Aug 2008, 21:13
What's the difference between multiple infusions with the same leaves vs one infusion with the same amount of tea, the same total amount of water (sum of the multiple infusions), same total steep time (sum of the multiple infusions), and, as much as possible, holding the temperature constant? For example: Trial Tea Water Infusions Temp ...
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From: Square Peg - 27 Aug 2008, 19:47
I was given a bag of yin hao, a jasmine tea from Holy Mountain. The instructions say "multiple short steepings at 180-195". I haven't tried multiple steepings before. Do they need to be done back to back? How long can the wet leaves be left out? How long in the refrigerator? Are subsequent steepings done the same way (time and temp)? I assume...
10 Posts. Last post send by: Square Peg - Wednesday 27 Aug
From: Space Cowboy - 27 Aug 2008, 15:37
Dan Cong Huang Zhi about an inch and half long. It is very stout twisted leaf almost like a twig ergo Zhi or Sprig. If you were measuring this tea for brewing you could use a pharmaceutical tray and count. The infused leaf is green, the taste astringent but a constant through several infusions. The leaf slowly gives up its geometry and taste. I would...
8 Posts. Last post send by: Space Cowboy - Wednesday 27 Aug
From: toci - 26 Aug 2008, 21:54
Of definite interest. One can taste the wood pulp of the twigs, and something that tastes like bark, also. This is a very full taste. The twigs float so it doesn't make it easy to strain, next time I'll try the empty tea bags I got once and seldom use. I'm beginning to think of my switch back from iced tea to hot teas; isn't it early in the summer for...
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From: PC - 26 Aug 2008, 00:24
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From: Space Cowboy - 25 Aug 2008, 14:48
These days I throw my bike on the light rail and get off at stops and explore areas of town by push pedal. I'm tooling around in a university neighborhood and came across a new tea shoppe that deals exclusively with Chinese teas. Luckily there wasnt much traffic because I took a sharp turn across the street when I saw it because it is the first tea shoppe...
2 Posts. Last post send by: Space Cowboy - Monday 25 Aug
From: TBerk - 25 Aug 2008, 03:17
English?, yep. Why even the writing on the side of the box is too. ;]) It is in little individual separate pouches, sealed away from the nasty oxidizing oxygen. Funny though. Despite my knowing it's off the shelf corporate tea and all that I find it half wy decent, in a medicinal kind of way. TBerk
6 Posts. Last post send by: TBerk - Monday 25 Aug
