/tea/

[Anonymous No.17812194]

/tea/
Up In The Trees Editon
This thread is for discussing teas, tissanes, and other herbal infusions.
info: types of tea, where to get tea, how to brew tea
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[Anonymous No.17812230]

Speaking of tea from puerhshop i have this basket of liuan from the early 2000s from him, i think i paid like $35 or $40 for it.
Luckily it spent some time somewhere humid before he got his hands on it. It's a lower grade of liuan, pretty stemmy.
Tastes like old tea taste, with a bit of a sort of cherry hint going on a bit of woodyness not much. No real mustyness or wet storage funk either. Stuff is jet fuel i can't drink it without a full meal.
Brews up a deep red color.
Overall not bad but if i was going to buy more liuan i would get the newer higher grade stuff from chawangshop or purple cloud teahouse.

[Anonymous No.17812670]

What's thebmost dry tea?

[Anonymous No.17812680]

>don't even use a thermometer anymore, just go by the sounds of my old stovetop kettle
How far down the iceberg am I?

[Anonymous No.17812696]

>>17812680
That's prey y useful skill to have, very traditional

[Anonymous No.17812724]

>>17812696
Yeah, it's really helpful when you're a lazy bastard like myself.
I tried learning the bubble size trick, but I didn't have very good results.

[Anonymous No.17812762]

>>17812724
With the bubble size trick you need to stick your face near a boiling kettle, no thanks ill listen from my couch

[Anonymous No.17812831]

why use a thermometer when you just brew everything at 99C

[Anonymous No.17812858]

>>17812831
This is what i do, if the tea can't be brewed at 99c i just cant be bothered to drink it

[Anonymous No.17812868]

>bring water to boil
>dump it on leaves
>let it sit until you remember it's there
Bone apple tea.

[Anonymous No.17812982]

Anything I can read about the differences between autumn and spring tea? I watched the farmer leaf video but I'd like something more comprehensive

[Anonymous No.17813225]

>>17812982
Spring teas are usually stronger, more intese flavors, more pungency, fall teas are more soft, mellow, smooth

[Anonymous No.17813708]

y'all try real hard to justify your caffeine addiction

[Anonymous No.17813812]

>>17813708
You really think I'm buying tea at a buck a gram for the caffeine?

[Anonymous No.17813823]

>>17813708
Unless I drink it right before bed/in the evening or on an empty stomach, tea doesn't do much for me energy wise. I drink for the taste, using it as a substitute for drinks that aren't water. I also try and buy from sellers that buy directly from small farmers, so I like to think they are receiving some support, but that's probably just a comfy thought. Tea has made my life much better and has lost me over 80 lbs. I tried coffee but it kept me awake way too long, made me super jittery. Other times it made me drowsy. Mostly it just made me have acid reflux, super gassy, and have to shit. Coffee also tastes like ass without modifying it with stuff like milk and sugar, which I do not add when I brew my tea. Since I don't care too much for caffeine, tea is infinitely better in every way at least for me.

[Anonymous No.17814055]

How much difference is there between the 30 cent Longjing and the $3 Longjing? Is it just Chinese prestige culture?

[Anonymous No.17814172]

>>17814055
The big thing with longing is that it's not "real" longinjing unless it comes from this specific west lake area.
So most affordable lonjing is "in the style of" because it's not from west lake. Lonjing is a popular gift and I'm sure that gifting and prestige play a big part in the price.
The real lonjing is probably good but not worth the price but i haven't tried any of the $3 per gram ones to say for sure.

[Anonymous No.17814939]

>>17813812
What's the best tea anime

[Anonymous No.17815733]

>>17814939
Girls un panzer

[Anonymous No.17815739]

>>17811276
That track is actually kind of neat. I wonder if gaiwan means something different in Uruguay.

[Anonymous No.17815890]

>>17814939
Hyouge Mono

[Anonymous No.17816031]

>>17815890
this.
>mfw you will never drink matcha made with Nobunaga's blood

[Anonymous No.17816042]

Friendly reminder that the dental industry is a scam and you are a mark. Brush less teeth, drink more tea.

[Anonymous No.17816399]

That's right anons it's time for some smokey lapsang

[Anonymous No.17816549]

does anyone want to help offload some of my extra tea? pic related, would give away for cheap. 2 kinds of cheap culinary matcha (both high rated on amazon but i'm not a fan), mandarin ripe puerh balls (decent quality, smooth and sweet basic tea with a nice hint of orange, i just don't like ripes much), mushroom raw tuo from YS (wet forest tasting, lasts 15+ infusions so i think it's decent quality), 8653 cake (good beginner raw), hojicha (i like it i just have higher quality options), olive leaves (supposed to be good for your throat. tastes eh, if you like tisanes it might make a good blend), rose buds (nice i just have a lot and want to offload what i won't be using in the next couple years), blueberry red (bland base tea but flavoring is nice, good for blends), and i can throw in some ceremonial matcha (love organic brand)

[Anonymous No.17816555]

forgot pic

[Anonymous No.17816585]

>>17816549
Email me
teageneral @ protonmail. com

[Anonymous No.17816707]

I'll take anything you think would be funny to powderize and run through the tea portafilter. I like ripes, bitter smokey raws and matcha.

[Anonymous No.17816721]

>>17816707
Hell yeah expresso matcha blast

[Anonymous No.17817023]

So did anyone order Japanese greens thia spring? What did you get? Is it here yet?

[Anonymous No.17817243]

>>17817023
I'm thinking about ordering two Japanese greens. From yunomi the Mountain-grown Fukamushi sencha, and from sazen the Tongu Asatsuyu. The Asatsuyu apparently smells and tastes like roasted Japanese sweet potatoes and that intrigues me. The Fukamushi will probably be my daily drinker.

[Anonymous No.17817251]

>>17817243
>The Asatsuyu apparently smells and tastes like roasted Japanese sweet potatoes
Yeah I'm thinking that sounds tasty

[Anonymous No.17817256]

>>17817251
As an aside, Satsumaimo are nothing like western sweet potatoes, and they're absolutely amazing. If you get the chance to try some, do it. Just bake them and serve season them individually with salt and butter to taste.

[Anonymous No.17817292]

>>17817256
Are they like Jamaican yellow yams?

[Anonymous No.17817299]

>>17817292
I can't say if I've had specifically Jamaican yams, but they have a deeper, nuttier flavor than just a yellow yam. They can also be quite sweet, but I've noticed that that depends a lot on the actual potato.

[Anonymous No.17817314]

>>17817299
Now that im thinking of it I'm pretty sure i had Japanese sweet potatoes a few times, they were really good, i liked them a lot more than standard sweet potatoes.
Some tea with that flavor would be very interesting. The only tea inve heard being compared to sweet potato is some GABA oolongs

[Anonymous No.17817326]

>>17817314
lots of yunnan black tea tastes like sweet potato

[Anonymous No.17817344]

>>17817326
Maybe i should try drinking something other than puer for once

[Anonymous No.17817361]

>>17817292
It's not an actual yam. It's the same as thanksgiving yams/sweet potatoes except slightly starchier like a russet potato. It's basically the russet of sweet potatoes and thus has a better texture if you're eating it baked or as fries. Which AFAIK is the only way sweet potatoes are ever eaten. Dunno why the orange gooey kind even exists.

[Anonymous No.17817421]

>>17817361
Look i worked at a grocery store, yams and sweet potatoes are the same damn thing, nobody is eating African yams

[Anonymous No.17817901]

I guess the op image is really bad again.

[Anonymous No.17817905]

How many years does it take before you develop tea vampirism?

[Anonymous No.17817917]

>>17817905
That image is so powerful. Imagine being able to wanl into that store in the 80s and buy all that ancient old tea for $100 a kilo

[Anonymous No.17817955]

>>17817905
How high is this man's power level?

[Anonymous No.17818020]

>>17817955
Its mind boggling how much power the tea in that image posses. And he is the guy that stores it in a wet basement till it's just right

[Anonymous No.17818027]

>>17817955
Unmeasurable, the white balance in the photo is off because the sheer cha qi imbued in that man is overexposing the film. That man at the counter is already dead.

[Anonymous No.17818527]

>>17817905
I just want whatever is is the jars behind him
Imagine his own special ripe raw blend

[Anonymous No.17818536]

>>17817256
Japanese sweet potatoes are great though i like western sweet potatoes as well.

[Anonymous No.17818561]

>>17812194
Any good, fruity, and non-caffeinated teas?

[Anonymous No.17818600]

I lucked out today. While visiting for mother's day, I brought a cake of 2014 ripe from 600y old trees. She instantly dumped the pot she had and the gang set to work powering through 40 grams.

I was hoping to use her cast iron set, but she had given it away. However, she had 2 gaiwan that were purchased in SF's china town around a decade ago during a family vacation. They had spent all this time as decoration. So I was offered to "take care of them" for the time being. I'm pretty broke right now, so I've been trying to gong fu with a stainless steel mesh ball. It works, but I love the ceremony of using the gaiwan. They hold the lid on the side of the saucer perfectly and are gorgeous pieces of art. I love my mother.

[Anonymous No.17818681]

Anyone use camellia sinensis over at Canada? What's your favourite tea? I'll always like a nice rooibos or an oolong, but I'll try anything that looks interesting!

[Anonymous No.17818687]

>>17818561
https://www.matchamatcha.net/product-page/strawberry-hojicha

[Anonymous No.17819234]

Post the tea your drinking now

[Anonymous No.17819473]

Does anyone put oxygen absorbers in their tea storage? Yay or nay

[Anonymous No.17819484]

>>17819473
Silica gel? No.

[Anonymous No.17819518]

Quick /out/ing with some red tea, its very interesting how different tea tastes when outside, was kinda dissapointed by this one before but now its really pleasant.

[Anonymous No.17819521]

>>17812194
any cool teapot designs? i just use pic related at the moment.

could go for an expensive teapot, does not need to look old style. i want one that just makes everything as easy and smooth as possible

[Anonymous No.17819535]

>>17819521
>>17819234

[Anonymous No.17819549]

>>17819518
Shouldn't you at least clear away some of those leaves? For safety

[Anonymous No.17819555]

>>17819549
We here for a good time, not a long time

[Anonymous No.17819575]

>>17812194
I happened to get a cake of puer tea. How am I supposed to use it? Do I just stab it with a table knife to remove a chunk and try to crumble it as best as I can? How do I break it up to use it?

[Anonymous No.17819599]

>>17819575
Anything works, picks are nice, but you can use screwdrivers, knives, your hands if you go full caveman mode. Anything that can peel or break a chunk of tea off

[Anonymous No.17820101]

>>17817905
What do you think this guy's daily routine is like?

[Anonymous No.17820189]

>>17819575
Eat it

[Anonymous No.17820423]

>>17819575
Yeah just break smaller chunks off, don't try to separate every leaf.

[Anonymous No.17820455]

>>17819234
Some 2004 xiaguan
This tea was love hate for a while, it needs really specific brewing parameters to get the best out of it. Now that ive figured it out (less leaf than usual, 10 second infusions) it's pretty damn nice. Powerful stuff

[Anonymous No.17820703]

>>17820423
I just wasn't sure if I was supposed to steam it or run it under the tap or something weird like that, instead of the obvious process of loosening a chunk off of the cake

[Anonymous No.17820753]

>>17819518
Anon are you telling me you made tea on a patch of TEAberry/mountain TEA and didn't brew that?

[Anonymous No.17820810]

>>17820703
Nah no need for any of that. How does it taste?

[Anonymous No.17820839]

>>17820753
im sorry anon i dont think i get it

[Anonymous No.17820906]

>>17820839

[Anonymous No.17820955]

>>17820906
i dont think those would taste very good

[Anonymous No.17821597]

>>17820906
Hong Xiuquan died from eating weeds. Don't do it anon!

[Anonymous No.17821619]

>>17821597
I value teaberry more than Camellia sinensis

[Anonymous No.17821874]

>>17821619
Do you brew the leaves of the Berries?

[Anonymous No.17821960]

>>17815890
Thanks for reminding me to read the manga.
The anime was fun.

[Anonymous No.17822286]

What is the worst expensive tea you have tried?
Ever get a free sample from a vendor that was nasty?

[Anonymous No.17822290]

>>17822286
I got a free sample of some shops house ripe peur that was just nasty. I don't even think i drank any of it

[Anonymous No.17822586]

Where to get a decent sized tea table for a gaiwan, cha he, and 4 cups bros? Preferably has a plastic container underneath that can be withdrawn, I feel like a wholly bamboo table would moulder.

Shipping to canada btw

[Anonymous No.17822834]

>>17815890
This looks exactly what I'm into anon, I'm indebited to you

[Anonymous No.17823055]

>>17822586
depends on your budget, aliexpress if low, otherwise check ys usa and purplecloudteahouse but i dont think they sell many options for tea trays.

[Anonymous No.17823473]

>>17818561
I bought a potted mint plant just to make tea. Dash of lemon & it's how I like it.

[Anonymous No.17823993]

>>17822586
One with an inner plastic tray is the way to go. Honesty aliexpress is a good bet.
King tea mall has a selection with decent prices but shipping can be expensive

[Anonymous No.17824058]

Got some tea from a local shop this time - chain "Gschwendner".
Mostly chinese greens, but also some sencha, since I've never tried it before.
If you ignore all the aroma shit, this tea shop is quite decent. Not even that much more expensive than ys.

Drinking gunpowder rn. Surprised I like it quite a lot. It's more intensive than the greens I usually drink with a very strong fruit like flavor. idk
I wonder if this sencha is good for gonfu or if it'll become unpleasantly bitter.

What's your go to tea chain in your country?

[Anonymous No.17824070]

>>17818561
pls stop posting this disguisting cartoon frog

[Anonymous No.17824082]

Had a dream last night where I somehow managed to break all my teaware

[Anonymous No.17824094]

>>17814939
what's your tea waifu?

[Anonymous No.17824109]

>>17822286
Got some ripe puerh sample from yunnan sourcing that had mold on it.
I drank it anyways. It tasted like hay. Had an unpleasant afterfeel.

[Anonymous No.17824173]

>>17824109
The mold adds zest

[Anonymous No.17824206]

>>17824058
the maofeng is also alright

[Anonymous No.17824214]

>>17824082
Kek

[Anonymous No.17824236]

Is grandpa style the traditional way of making longjing? Most Chinese depictions of it have it done this way so you can see the "dragon dance" when you add water.

[Anonymous No.17824260]

>>17824206
>>17824058
The sencha was around 15ct/g
Quite disappointed with it.
i don't taste much except a basic astringency.
Brewing with 80° ~3g. Maybe I'm nissing something?

[Anonymous No.17824268]

>>17824260
It's the aftertaste. It is subtle, but it's there.
Tastes like pine needles, kinda acidic.
Still not all that impressed

[Anonymous No.17824271]

>>17820189
Honest question, what would happen if I actually did this?

[Anonymous No.17824281]

>>17824271
It would taste really bad. Sometimes I eat the dry tea leaves out of curiousity. Lighter leaves are okay, anything dark or flavored is disgusting.

[Anonymous No.17824290]

>>17824236
Who knows? The Chinese sure dont.
Anyway its pretty tasty that way, might as well try it in a gaiwan too and see chich way you prefer

[Anonymous No.17824293]

Hey /tea/ tell me if what my Chinese friend told me is true. The less English you hear at the tea shop, the better it is. Even better when you can't read any of the signs and the owner is shouting at you

[Anonymous No.17824296]

>>17824260
Is it spring 2022 sencha? I wouldn't call sencha suble by any means, it should be a pretty bold tea. I would try dropping the temp down to 70°c and trying that. Also there is a half decent chart of leaf to water ratios and brew times for Japanese greens in the pastebin, reference thatand make sure you are in the same ballpark

[Anonymous No.17824303]

>>17824271
Ive eaten a few dry leaves before, you kind of have to leaves them in yoir mouth till they hydrate and then suck on them to get the flavor, if you chew them it's awful. It's easier to just grab a few leaves out of your gaiwan after the first or second brew and chew on those.

[Anonymous No.17824310]

>>17820189
Lmfao

[Anonymous No.17824313]

>>17824293
Maybe applies to China but you won't find many places like that in the west. There also aren't that many great tea shops in the west. I have one near me that must be in the top 5% in the country in terms of quality and selection and i still don't really bother to shop there.

[Anonymous No.17824338]

>>17824296
maybe it's from last year. the other grewns taste quite fresh

[Anonymous No.17824341]

>>17824296
sauce on brew chart pls anon kun

[Anonymous No.17824375]

>>17824341
https://pastebin.com/80GeeXJV

[Anonymous No.17824461]

>>17823055
>>17823993
thanks fellas I will check those recs out

[Anonymous No.17824586]

Why does everyone hate the smell of Lapsang Souchong?

[Anonymous No.17824682]

>>17824586
I love it, i found some at my asian market that fucking reeks of pine smoke. When i brew it my kitchen smells like a campfire. Unfortunately i don't see the tins online anywhere for a decent price. But if if want some real smokey shit ive heard god thing about this.
This is a more mild Taiwanese version
https://marktwendell.com/shop-by-tea-type/hu-kwa-tea
And this is a full fat extra smokey proper lapsang
https://marktwendell.com/china-lapsang-souchong.html
No idea of any of their other tea is good?

[Anonymous No.17824690]

>>17824682
damn. I'll look into these. I got this from a woman who literally can't stand it. She bought it cuz it looked fancy and hated it.

the flavor is ridiculously mild for how fucking smelly it is though. kind of weird.

[Anonymous No.17824721]

>>17824690
It varys a lot, most of the more premium lapsang and they stuff made to be sold in China isn't smokey at all. Some of the export stuff is a total smoke bomb and that pine smoke is a pretty intense flavor for some people. With the more old school stuff they don't just scent it with pine smoke, they throw a bunch of pine pitch and resin into the burning wood so it vaporizes and soaks into the leaves.

[Anonymous No.17824814]

>>17824721
makes sense, because it literally reminds me of a campfire with shitty pine wood. wouldn't surprise me if they make it smoke hard with that stuff. I've had some other smoke aged stuff that was literally like vanilla. much more pleasant. This stuff is good too though.

[Anonymous No.17824860]

>>17824814
Yeah other smokey teas either use way less pine or they use other woods entirely, so yoi tend to get more of a BBQ smoke kind of aroma instead of the sharp pine smoke.
I'm brewing up a cup right now.

[Anonymous No.17825050]

>>17824375
oh. I only brewed it ~10 secs like I would chinese teas. That's it I guess

[Anonymous No.17825060]

>>17824094
>>17824058

[Anonymous No.17825282]

>>17824058
I tried Gschwendner years ago. Bought some shitty fruit tea and some scented white tea + a teapot. Teapot broke for no reason and well, the scented tea wasn't great.
I don't know if they also have good tea, I made a mistake with my choices I guess, didn't try any loose leaf tea until years later which is a shame.

[Anonymous No.17825299]

i think i've lost interest in highly oxidised oolongs, they all seem to have that same bitter cocoa taste which really dosent appeal to me anymore and i've tasted a lot of them now. I'd prefer to drink something that tastes more like fruits but i cant seem to find any oolongs like that, i'd rather just drink red teas.

[Anonymous No.17825399]

>>17824070
>pls stop posting this disguisting cartoon frog
I will never stop. *blush*

[Anonymous No.17825676]

>>17825050
Report back when you have another session with it.

[Anonymous No.17825717]

>>17825299
Have you tried dancong oolongs? I guess they tend more floral than fruity but they tend to be less oxidized than wuyi oolongs. It's not like there is some need to drink oolongs, there is plenty of good tea out there.
This sampler of oolongs made in yunan are pretty interesting.
https://tea-expert.net/magazin-kitajskogo-chaya/ulun/50087-13-yunnan-wu-long-yang-pin-bao

[Anonymous No.17827041]

How long does it take you to go through 100g of tea?

[Anonymous No.17827075]

>>17827041
About a week.

[Anonymous No.17827148]

>>17827041
7 days

[Anonymous No.17827719]

>>17827041
Maybe a quarter month

[Anonymous No.17827747]

>>17827041
Usually half a fortnight

[Anonymous No.17827768]

>>17827041
In the neighborhood of 168 hours

[Anonymous No.17827915]

>>17825676
Oh. That's much better. It tastes very grassy, fresh. It also has some roast aroma and reminds me of Longjing.

[Anonymous No.17827922]

>>17827041
About half a month

[Anonymous No.17827927]

>>17825282
I don't get why anyone would buy new teapots. Especially if you're german their is tons of classy quality teaware you can get for free nowadays.

That they sell shitty scented tea doesn't have to mean it's a bad store. They are just supplying the demand for artificial aroma shit. Trying to please different kinds of customers

[Anonymous No.17827934]

>>17827915
>>17824260
for comparison of cup color

[Anonymous No.17827956]

>>17824094

[Anonymous No.17827965]

>>17827927
>>17825282
>>17824058
They are also claiming to have direct contracts with the tea farmers instead of big auction sales

[Anonymous No.17828009]

>>17825717
that sounds nice ill look for it in other stores probably, also is there maybe a different way to brew these oolongs? im using pastebin guide rn but im not sure how good it is for highly oxidized

[Anonymous No.17828016]

>>17827927
People can drink scented tea if they want but at least for me it made me not buy any loose leaf tea for years, the tea had absolutely no taste.
That was literally 10 years ago, maybe it's better now but I wish there were more information about tea back then. Some tea people can be a bit pretentious but at least I found tea that I actually love now.

[Anonymous No.17828108]

>>17824586
never heard of anyone not liking it
just smelling makes my toes curl

[Anonymous No.17828479]

I don't like green tea anymore. what do?

[Anonymous No.17828895]

>>17827041
More than 6 days but less than 8 days.

[Anonymous No.17828903]

>>17827915
Yup that looks like green tea now

[Anonymous No.17828912]

>>17828009
When i had i bunch of dark oolongs i drank them one of two ways, either really strong short infusions in the gaiwan 10g t0 100ml with 5 - 10 second brews or grampa style, 4-6 in a mug, %ill with boiling water, refip with boiling water once you drink halfway down.

[Anonymous No.17828917]

>>17828479
Drink oolong

[Anonymous No.17828924]

Is drinking two giant glasses of tea too much?
I used two tea bags.

[Anonymous No.17828991]

>>17828924
Lots of the regulars here drink 2 - 3 liters of strong tea a day
Its fine

[Anonymous No.17829716]

>>17819234
some tie guan yin from my local shop.

[Anonymous No.17829771]

>>17829716
Nice, is it roasted or green?

[Anonymous No.17830146]

Only two more months before my tea arrives via boat, can't wait boys

[Anonymous No.17830271]

>>17827041
One day

[Anonymous No.17830274]

>>17829716
Is that the IKEA French Press? I have the same thing and I love it for my Korean corn tea

[Anonymous No.17830486]

>>17827041
I really want clothes and robes like that. Where can I buy them?

[Anonymous No.17830528]

>>17830486
Search Jackie chan costume on aliexpress

[Anonymous No.17830561]

>>17830486
This >>17830528 unironically works. Quality will be shit though

[Anonymous No.17831404]

I found some old green tea earlier. I cut a bag open and poured it into my teapot. As you would expect, it looked and tasted gross.

[Anonymous No.17831820]

>>17831404
Was it just bland or did it actually taste bad?

[Anonymous No.17832223]

what are some foods i should eat to expand my tea tasting vocabulary (sorry for the fagspeak i dont know how to word it in another way)

[Anonymous No.17832322]

>>17832223
For green tea it's easy. Just mow the lawn and eat the grass clippings. Boil some soy beans/edamame and spinach. Eat a sheet of nori and some rehydrated wakame.

[Anonymous No.17832743]

>>17832223
have an under-ripe hayachi persimmon to learn what astringency really means (its a frequently misused term). then eat some more hayachi persimmons because they are freaking delicious.

[Anonymous No.17833043]

>>17831820
It had some sort of citrus flavoring that must have went bad, it was very sour.

[Anonymous No.17833063]

>>17833043
Oh nasty

[Anonymous No.17833093]

>>17832223
Dried fruits, plums, prunes etc.
Some 90% dark chocolate

[Anonymous No.17833164]

>>17833093
There is a co-op next door to me that sells 100% dark chocolate. It's divine.

[Anonymous No.17833215]

>>17833164
I doubt it, top chocolates lie between 75-85% for me. more than that and you're choking on dry cacao. nothing divine about it, just intense. like superhot hot sauces and superbitter sheng. I use lindt mild 85% for amphetamines drip purposes. nothing can beat it, even self-made ayran. grab it if you'll see it.

[Anonymous No.17833277]

>>17833215
It takes me about a month to work through a bar. It's more of a small piece sucking chocolate. Then again I do love, all flavors burnt, peaty, dirt-like, and bitter.

[Anonymous No.17833405]

>>17833215
I usually buy lindt 70% i should go higher

[Anonymous No.17833414]

>>17832223
A sweet American whisky, American corn, old granddad bottled in bond, something that has a decent amout of chared oak wood and vanilla flavors

[Anonymous No.17833426]

>>17832223
try some expensive islay scotch. peaty and earthy.

[Anonymous No.17833479]

>>17832223
Cured ham, preferably serrano or a decent quality prosciutto. Go to somewhere with a nice cheese selection and ask them to hook you up with some tangy or nutty cheeses, nothing runny, maybe an alpine cheese of some sort.

[Anonymous No.17833482]

Quite dark. Don't know if that's an indicator for shit tea

[Anonymous No.17833594]

>>17833482
What tea is it?
Some are supposed to be dark, some aren't

[Anonymous No.17833673]

>>17833594
green

[Anonymous No.17833706]

>>17833277
so you know what I mean. go a bit lower, look for mild, try some speed.
>>17833405
exactly
>>17833426
there are two islay whiskeys worth trying, ardbeg and laphroaig. ardbeg 10 for 45€ got me into single malts with it's burning rubber tractor wheels on a hot asphalt taste and after that I tried some laphroaig 10 for 35€ which to me stumbles behind him a bit like lame retarded cousin covered with bandages shouting 'but I smoke too'. to be honest laphroaig was better as an ingredient of a scottish porridge than on it's own. you ate scottish porridge before, do you?

[Anonymous No.17833794]

>>17833706
It the picture of that bing on the wall that guys tea brand or something?

[Anonymous No.17833811]

>>17833794
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0_hz3Hz-w4&list=PLT7aDyZnPwJW9ScUDGtJ28IoNj6yayDIM&index=4
good teas all around on tea encounter. read up if you're interested.

[Anonymous No.17833913]

>>17833811
this video is really cool, thanks for sharing : )

[Anonymous No.17833981]

>>17833913
just educate yourself, no need for upvotes here :-). somewhere down the road you will suddenly understand this video, provided you will keep on digging deep into the tea. not to diss casual enjoyers really. your wallet is safer this way. it's all diminishing returns after switching from teabags or scented tea.

[Anonymous No.17833993]

Crimson Lotus' Love Potion Sheng is phenomenal. Tastes like milk with peaches and stays sweet has a thick, almost marshmellowy mouthful. Never had a Puerh quite like it. Very soothing.

Highly recommend it

[Anonymous No.17834047]

>>17833981
i read the book that this is for but i forgot that the videos existed so its really interesting to see them now.
im just getting into puer tea now but i'd like to try yiwu tea one day but i dont have money for it lol

[Anonymous No.17834061]

>>17833993
oh yeah, young puerhs made to be drunk fresh. that's also relatively a new one. three years down the road the fresh fragrance seeps away and you're left with an orange infusion with whispers of bitterness and diluted sweetness. someone here asked what's after the one trick pony green tea, my answer is this king of tea. should be more interesting than your standard chink or jap green. some people build 'pumidors' for that. godspeed.
crimson lotus runs some promotion related to the "great packages disappearance" from two years ago. IIRC one anon here was a victim. go get your free terrace sheng bro.
>>17834047
just save a hundred bucks for a small cake shipped and you can larp like the best of us. you got it in you, the book was probably a half of that. I believe in you.

[Anonymous No.17834086]

>>17834061
good thing even with my stock of tea, I go through tea like wild fire

[Anonymous No.17834087]

>>17834061
where do you buy the more expensive stuff without getting scammed? i've been sticking to farmer leaf for now since he gives all the information and shit about what im actually buying but he seems to refuse to sell teas from more well known mountains.

[Anonymous No.17834131]

>>17834087
https://tea-encounter.com/

[Anonymous No.17834179]

>>17834087
same places as you probably, I'm not an insider. in my opinion most of the western vendors have something worthwhile for someone. usually in the premium price range. it's ok to drink mediocre tea, just don't stock up too much on it and try some more expensive samples. hundred for xiao bing should get you something worthwile in one way or another, I think. what was maybe true 3 years ago that you could browse yourself silly for a bargain on king tea mall is no longer really an option. that doesn't mean there's no good unhyped tea on ktm, it means you'll probably have to pay real chink price for it. sometimes puercn com comes to the rescue, but not for those 'forgotten' 2015 maocha blended with new material.
there was one bubble in 2007 that burst, the following ones keep on going without bursting now that western hobbyists got to spending their fuck you money, following their HK, Taiwan and other east china compatriots.
that said the good tea is too expensive now, but the hike will not stop in the near future, so buy what you like.

[Anonymous No.17834377]

I leave my teabag in the cup the whole time I'm drinking it. You can't stop me.

[Anonymous No.17834430]

>>17834377
How does it taste?

[Anonymous No.17834442]

>>17833993
That sounds delicious anon

[Anonymous No.17834968]

Finished off one of my tins of liubao today, now im running pretty low. Something nice about liubao on a hot humid day

[Anonymous No.17836068]

Is chaozhou clay the right choice for greener oolongs? The Mei Leaf guy says so, but I don't really trust him.

[Anonymous No.17836107]

>>17836068
You have the right instinct here. I own a Chaozhou pot and I tried it with green tieguanyin, it's not bad but I think it takes away from the texture and aftertaste a bit, particularly the floral notes. The thing is that Chaozhou clay is fairly porous. I think the least porous, most porcelain-like clays like Yixing zhuni would give better results, or just porcelain. Chaozhou clay works wonderfully with roasted oolongs though. It tends to take some of the roasted edge off but leaves the rest of the flavor profile alone.

[Anonymous No.17836438]

Why is green tea so fucking shite

[Anonymous No.17836636]

>>17834442
It absolutely was. It was like candy.

[Anonymous No.17837149]

>>17836068
For green oolongs i would probably just go porcelain, but i might be biased because i already own a small porcelain pot that i use for my greener oolongs

[Anonymous No.17837155]

>>17836438
Green tea is excellent (i guess) i don't drink it but but it's pretty obvious why people do

[Anonymous No.17837448]

>>17814939
yuru yuri

[Anonymous No.17837451]

>>17817314
>The only tea inve heard being compared to sweet potato is some GABA oolongs

That would be a good choice

[Anonymous No.17837454]

>>17819234
same tea

[Anonymous No.17837526]

>>17837454
Tell me about the bi lo chun, is it good?

[Anonymous No.17837542]

>>17814055
Longjing from a proper area is at least $1.5 a gram, probably higher now. If it's the earliest harvest from the most exclusive areas, it will be at least $1000 a gram.

[Anonymous No.17837569]

>>17817314
>>17817326
There's also that zheng shan xiao zhong called "sweet potato zheng shan xiao zhong" on YS, it tastes about like it
>>17836438
I used to not like green tea until I had some actual decent green tea. Quality greens taste really good and fresh. What green tea have you tried?

[Anonymous No.17837604]

Odds i drink more puer
Evens i drink smoked lapsang

[Anonymous No.17837673]

Might anyone have some advice for clearing a kettle of limescale/etc? I have used only bottled water for a while without any residue, but limescale seems to have built up somehow lately, maybe due to leaving small amounts of water at the end of sessions. I was wondering why it tasted so terrible, and only just noticed now. I'm to understand some people use white vinegar and just boil it in the kettle, but I'm unsure of the amount needed, and the whole process of covering everything and clearing it.

[Anonymous No.17837703]

>>17837673
It depends on water hardness and scale thickness. I'd start with a 1 to 5 ratio of vinegar to water and boil. If that doesn't work, go to 1 to 1. You'll eventually find the right ratio for your situation.

As far as whole process, acid boil and then a couple rinses.

[Anonymous No.17837719]

>>17837673
>>17837703
vinegar or acetic acid, just be careful because they'll boil at a lower temp and bubble up, boiling over so only fill the kettle 1/3 full

[Anonymous No.17837724]

>>17837526
good for the price, its a malty black not a floral one

[Anonymous No.17837725]

>>17837673
If vinegar doesn't work, buy a bag of citric acid on amazon/ebay look up what ratio to use for cleaning coffee makers. You can also use barkeepers friend and a sponge just make sure you rinse it out very thoroughly afterwards

[Anonymous No.17837731]

>>17837724
Is it as malty as say and English breakfast or just malty for a Chinese black tea?

[Anonymous No.17837743]

>>17837703
Thank you for your notes. Would you mind clarifying how much I should be filling it with such a method, and if I should be leaving the liquid to cool down each time after boiling (to penetrate further)? It's a seemingly very mild amount of scaling after a very long time used (over a year) with exclusively bottled water. Most, if not all the scaling is at the bottom, and not even fully. I can smell and taste it though; almost spoiled nutty-sweet in aroma, yet flat and bland. Very odd overall. I think I'm finding myself a bit nauseous from drinking from it, though.
>>17837719
I appreciate the warning, thank you. I'll use some white vinegar; would it be fine to dilute it with my bottled water, though? Or, should I just go pure in if I fill 1/3 as you suggest?
>>17837725
It's relatively mild limescale, so I don't know if I'll need direct intervention. I'm thinking of just using a green scrub brush, and only if I absolutely must for a full cleanse. I'll report back to the thread after I settle it to provide my own feedback for others who may benefit from such info.

[Anonymous No.17837800]

>>17837743
You fill as deep as you need to clean. You're disolving the shit with acid.

[Anonymous No.17837896]

>>17837731
>or just malty for a Chinese black tea
but brewing it gongfu goes give it more strength than how you brew English teas

[Anonymous No.17837980]

Thanks to the anons who chimed in with their feedback for cleaning my kettle. Mine is rated for 1.7L, so I filled in probably 300-450ml of apple cider vinegar (avoided most of the mother particulates, was out of white vinegar) and some bottled water. Heated to max, swished around a bit, and cleansed with a cycle of heated plain bottled water. Vastly improved the scaling (at most a ghosted hint of what was there before wiping with a paper cloth), just waiting for the lingering vinegar aroma to secede a bit. Will test the bottled water shortly, hoping it won't be so foul this time. I will fill my gaiwan with some fresh leaf to report back on the flavor results in a bit.

[Anonymous No.17838067]

Results of my tea after the cleansing process are much preferable. The vinegar boiling/rinse solution appears to have cleared the unpleasant flavor and aroma from my kettle entirely. I'm testing the refreshed kettle's boiled water with fairly low grade shou mei, yet I vastly prefer it to the higher grade leaf I was drinking earlier with the impaired water. Don't feel like it's going to make me feel nauseous again either. Cheers, anons.

[Anonymous No.17838070]

>>17837980
In future I would only use white. Less shit in it. I have really clean municipal water so I just do 2 or 3 tap rinses and then I'm brewing.

You should really try to keep at least a gallon of white at home at all times. It is excellent for cleaning all kinds of shit.

[Anonymous No.17838099]

>>17838070
I certainly agree, and would have used white if it was available. I thought I had a gallon of white on hand, but it seems I'm out. Still, the ACV aroma has largely faded, and should be fully gone as I let it evaporate through a few cycles of regular bottled water as I drink more. I even used the same liquid with another kettle someone abused and left lime-scaled to Hell and back, and it's sparkling clean now.

[Anonymous No.17838102]

>>17838070
>You should really try to keep at least a gallon of white at home at all times. It is excellent for cleaning all kinds of shit.
I second this, i use white vinegar for cleaning everything, sinks, wiping down counters, cleaning up after spills, disinfecting surfaces, vinegar cleans just about anything and i don't have to worry about it leaving some nasty residue on my counters like lysol or whatever shut people use.
Buy it buy the gallon and keep it in a spray bottle

[Anonymous No.17838119]

>>17838102
At the discount grocer I buy it at it's like $2.50 a gallon. So there's no reason to not have it.

[Anonymous No.17838156]

Can someone describe how white tea tastes? I've never had it before and don't know if it's worth buying

[Anonymous No.17838169]

>>17838119
Yup it's dirt cheap

[Anonymous No.17838209]

>>17838156
Varies just as any other kind of tea does. Commonly, I'll find shou mei and gong mei to be buttery/bready or bready/fruity. More bud-heavy or younger whites, I'll find being a bit more floral, maybe milky, et cetera. There's plenty of variety either way; those are just generalizations at best. Though, I generally don't find whites to be harsh or difficult to infuse whatsoever. Try different kinds to form your own opinions.

[Anonymous No.17838220]

>>17838156
I recently bought one from nepal that has an intense apricot note. Try to brew whites at a lower temp. In my experience, they become astringent at anything above 185 when I do them gong fu.

[Anonymous No.17838423]

>>17838156
most whites i've had have tasted like hay and fruity. generally you can get some the same price as blacks, greens and every other type
>>17838220
i've only found the whites teas that are buds(see pic) to get astringent. white leaf teas you can full boil

[Anonymous No.17839035]

I did not care for puer.

[Anonymous No.17839038]

>>17839035
Same, but I kept drinking it, tried a few more and found some that I like. I like the musty, woodsy sorts of flavors but can't do anything that comes out fishy.

[Anonymous No.17839051]

>>17839035
It's a pain in the ass to get into puer.

[Anonymous No.17839305]

>>17839035
Puer is silage for humans.

[Anonymous No.17839561]

Hey tea heads, this is Don from Mei Leaf

[Anonymous No.17839695]

>>17839305
Imagine telling some chinaman in the 80s that people would be spending $1,000+ for a kilo of tea leaves from the woods.

[Anonymous No.17839905]

>>17839561
Hey, Don from Mei Leaf. Look, I only clicked on the video because your wife is really cute. I drink teabags.

[Anonymous No.17839952]

>>17839561
Are you and your wife swingers?

[Anonymous No.17840004]

>>17839561
Go fuck yourself you greaseball bastard

[Anonymous No.17840320]

I have about $100 to spend on King tea mall. Anything I should get?

[Anonymous No.17840830]

>>17840320
I got one of these before and really liked it looks like the price as gone up, not such a great deal now. I think i paid $18.99
https://kingteamall.com/collections/others-puerh-tea/products/2006-lancang-jing-mai-gu-cha-jingmai-old-tree-tuo-250g-puerh-raw-tea-sheng-cha?variant=32118371745895
Look king tea mall is an adventure in tea shopping. It's not always as cheap as it used to be but it's still pretty fun.
Anyways his green tea seems preddy good, his puer selection his huge, the storage is pretty good. With how big the inventory is it's a little easier if you post your shopping cart and ask for feedback.

[Anonymous No.17840838]

>>17840320
The stuff most likely to be good deals, if you go through the first few pages of recently added you will find a few $30 and $40 puer cakes that have some age on them, no premises but that's what i was looking at last time i was on there

[Anonymous No.17840970]

I am having smoked Lapsang for the first time and wow, the smell is really potent. I expected it to only have a hint of smoke but this is much stronger than even the smokiest whisky I ever had.

[Anonymous No.17841031]

>>17840970
God i love it, hows the taste? Is it a little more mild than the smell or is it loaded with smoke? I have been drinking a tin of inexpensive smokey lapsang recently and i love how it makes my kitchen smell like a campfire while im brewing it

[Anonymous No.17841309]

Okay, fuck it. Should I just order a sampler pack of pooer? It doesn't seem like there's any reliable way to know what the fuck I'm picking anyway.
https://yunnansourcing.com/collections/pu-erh-tea/products/yunnan-sourcing-brand-ripe-pu-erh-tea-sampler-for-2021-part-2
This good?

[Anonymous No.17841378]

>>17841031
I don't have any comparison to other smoked teas but I would say the smoke taste was quite strong, especially at the beginning, I liked the later infusions more.
I brewed an unsmoked Lapsang at the same time for comparison and even just the smell from the smoked one standing at my desk overpowered the tasting of the unsmoked one.

[Anonymous No.17841385]

>>17841309
IIRC, the samplers aren't much cheaper than just buying each sample individually(they sell 25g samples of most of their cakes). So you could buy that, or wait and maybe an anon here would be kind enough to pick a few for you.

[Anonymous No.17841407]

>>17841309
You gotta start somewhere.
You can get a bit more bang for your buck grabbing a cheap cake from w2t and then a couple random minis
https://white2tea.com/collections/2020-ripe-puer-tea/products/2020-prosbloom
https://white2tea.com/collections/ripe-puer-tea/products/2018-smoove-cocoa-minis
But if you are already making a YS order go for it

[Anonymous No.17842232]

Does smokey lapsang cause cancer? Does the secondhand smoke cause cancer?

[Anonymous No.17842279]

>>17841309
if you're starting then get some raw puer not only ripe too

[Anonymous No.17842291]

>>17812194
whats a good tea made from sunflowers?

[Anonymous No.17842373]

>>17842232
are you drinking into your lungs?

[Anonymous No.17842391]

>>17842373
it could cause nose cancer

[Anonymous No.17842483]

>>17842232
Drinking excessively hot liquid (almost scalding hot) increases your risk of throat cancer. I suppose consuming enough smoked tea could increase your risk of stomach or bowel cancer but you would have to drink a lot of heavily smoked tea constantly for a good portion of your life for it to be anything worth thinking about

[Anonymous No.17842869]

>resteep tea
>tasted like wet rag

[Anonymous No.17842897]

>>17842869
Now you know why only the most desperate poorfags resteep tea.

[Anonymous No.17842914]

>>17842897
Sometimes it's okay

[Anonymous No.17843022]

So give it to me straight, where should i be going for ripe puer? The big factories? W2T? Should i just buy dayi # recipes and skip everything else?

[Anonymous No.17843342]

I think i will clean out my pumudor tomorrow, if i can sweep up a cups worth of tea from the bottom i will take pictures and brew it in my gaiwan

[Anonymous No.17843561]

>>17833993
You've convinced me to try a sample of it. I want to be a big boy and get a cake one day and the way you described it made me need to try it.

[Anonymous No.17843578]

>>17843561
Puer is getting expensive but there is some fantastic tea out there that's worth trying, i have had some fantastic sessions with some more upmarket puers

[Anonymous No.17844438]

>>17839561
People like to shit on him, but they do have some very good teas. I could review some MeiLeaf teas here but I'm afraid anons will think I'm a shill.

[Anonymous No.17844686]

>>17844438
What have you tried?

[Anonymous No.17844730]

>>17844686
I have tried quite a lot of their teas, since I live in the UK it's convenient when I just want to restock on the classics. Anji bai cha, Longjing, Baimudan etc. They are all very good, their unaged Baimudan is probably my favourite white tea, it has just the right level of flavour while still being fresh. I didn't like the 2015 Baimudan as much, it's a bit too heavy, tastes slightly stale to me.

Their current Lao Cha Tou (Nug Berry) is easily my favourite shu puer, it really is as fruity as the name suggests with creaminess like a cheesecake. Normally you also get a ton of infusions, like 15-20 although one of the nugs was not as strong in flavour as the others. It was still tasting ok, not fishy or anything just a bit weak but I think that can happen in a bag with 30 or so pieces.

Yesterday I also tried their shu which was fermented in kombucha (Playground Rendezvous, I am sometimes not so sure about their naming but whatever) and it tastes like rum-raisin ice cream with walnuts, it's an amazing tea. It can get too bitter if you push it though so I do slightly shorter infusions than recommended.

[Anonymous No.17845182]

>finish my morning tea session in about 1/2 hour
>immediately want to load another 7g into the gaiwan
Anyone else do this?

[Anonymous No.17845197]

>>17844686
ive also had a few off him and they are good teas, little pricy
Longan Lapsang, excellent just enough smoke and not astringent, sadly never coming back
Eastern Beauty Oolong, amazing, tasted like how the platonic ideal of a tea should taste
B.A.D Gushu Dianhong, great
Ruby Black, nice bit dry in the mouth
Nug Berry, excellent
the two unsmoked tong mu Lapsang Souchongs, both very nice, one was floral the other malty
Lost Robe(Da Hong Pao). didnt like but i used way too little leaf
Empress Oolong(Da Hong Pao) really liked and the only Da Hong Pao i've enjoyed
Osmanthus Oolong, really good
Dragon Pearl Jasmine, nicest jasmine tea i've every had
and a few greens, i dont really care for greens

just dont believe the claims he makes about tree age or origin, here from the Eastern Beauty Oolong page
>In Taiwan, this tea is at a premium and extremely expensive. True Eastern Beauty picked from Miao Li County should retail at upwards of £50 per 100g. Anything less and there is no way that it is Eastern Beauty which has been insect bitten.
his sells for less than £50/100g
>Really, the origin and the authenticity of the tea does not matter. What is important is that the tea is delicious with an intense honeyed fruit aroma that is unmistakeable. We are confident that after tasting our Eastern Beauty you will have a standard against which all other Eastern Beauty can be judged - it is perfection.
"its fake but it tastes good, lol"

[Anonymous No.17845215]

Any high quality decaf teas I should be aware of?

[Anonymous No.17845246]

>>17845215
Rooibos are caffeine free

[Anonymous No.17845284]

>>17845215
Not really, just drink herbal teas that don't have caffeine, celestial seasonings is at your local grocery store if you live in the US.
Or just buy some herbs from these guys (just don't get their regular tea plant tea)
https://mountainroseherbs.com/catalog/teas/herbal

[Anonymous No.17846244]

just found small chunks of concrete in my ripe puer

[Anonymous No.17846347]

>>17846244
Congratulations
Is this a first for you?
Unfortunately you don't win anything for concrete, you have to find a lock of an asian womans hair and then you get to marry the farmers daughter

[Anonymous No.17846453]

>>17846347
And if you find an Asian man's hair?

[Anonymous No.17846458]

>>17846453
Moustache or pube?

[Anonymous No.17846511]

>>17844730
Even though you said the 2015 Baimudan wasn't good I'm disappointed to see it sold out. Seems like an informative opportunity to try the same tea aged and young.

[Anonymous No.17846565]

Seeing these posts about 'treasures' in tea, and remembered I took some pictures of a neat find in my low-grade shou cake last week. Some sort of flooring or thick walling material; I posted about this same material before, but it turns out that supposedly 'big' piece I had found before was just a small fraction of this larger piece.
>Pic related, j a c k p o t!
The leaf itself is not great, but I continue to drink it because I do not like to be wasteful. Maybe it would be preferable to just use it for coldbrew, though. I'll finish the cake soon enough anyway, always grateful to have something to drink. I never tire of whites.

[Anonymous No.17846604]

Puer fans be like
>I only got two rusty nails and five dead grasshoppers this time, this $300 brick was a steal

[Anonymous No.17846645]

>>17846604
DHL costs got you down? Package stuck in a port somewhere? Don't worry, there's hope

[Anonymous No.17846728]

Anyone ever been to a tea plantation? Is it worth traveling to one for a tour and some sampling?

[Anonymous No.17846753]

>>17846565
Nice, linoleum shu

[Anonymous No.17846762]

>>17846728
It's just a big field full of bushes, i guess it might be fun

[Anonymous No.17846771]

>>17846728
if its in your area i dont see why not, probably not worth traveling super far unless its a really nice place or a forest plantation, also depends on what country youre in

[Anonymous No.17846779]

I see white puerh and black puerh, what is puerh actually? A method of processing?

[Anonymous No.17846841]

>>17846779
It's a region. "Puerh" on it's own usually refers to heicha (a processing category like white or black) from that region. It's just overly popular so the word gets used weird.

[Anonymous No.17846862]

>>17846841
Oh thanks, i always thought it was a type of black tea only, but i see the whites and greens too

[Anonymous No.17846869]

>>17846779
The green stuff is harvested and dried before pressing, the brown stuff goes through an exyra step where it is put in big piles and has water added to the dry leaves so they ferment (sort of like making compost)
The end result is two very different teas, both are good.

[Anonymous No.17846916]

>>17846511
Oh, that's a shame. I would not say that it's bad, it might just be personal taste, I just prefer more freshness over the deeper aged notes.

[Anonymous No.17846953]

>>17824586
Do people hate it? Smells amazing to me.
>>17842232
The amount of phenols you'd find in tea are microscopic compared to what you might find in sausage or ham for example.

[Anonymous No.17847044]

>>17846869
What about white puerh cakes?

[Anonymous No.17847063]

>>17846753
I meant to post "shou mei" (white), but yes. I haven't had much more significant than that, though. I wonder how long it will be until someone here posts a tooth or something more gruesome than a spent cigarette butt.

[Anonymous No.17847101]

>>17847044
i think you're confused, just because they're caked dosent mean its puer.
Producers cake white teas because they age like puers because they dont go through a kill-green process which kills all the enzymes like with green teas, raw puer also goes through the kill-green process by cooking it in a wok, but its stopped before all the enzymes are killed and it turns into a green tea.
im unsure what the point of black tea and heicha cakes are because they dont really age like puers.

[Anonymous No.17847121]

>>17847044
young tea shoots vs larger the older leaves for normal puerh, pic is white leaf buds. 'green' puerh would either be the first leaf or green as in the cake is still young and hasn't oxidised and aged yet. ripe is wet piled i.e dumped on a factory floor, wetted and covered with a tarp for 2 months and was made to mimic the taste of really old aged raw puerh

[Anonymous No.17847159]

>>17847101
>>17847121
Thanks! And also, how to best store tea cakes at home?

[Anonymous No.17847176]

>>17847159
if you want to get autistic with it and plan to store it for 2+ years:
https://teadb.org/pumidors-101-designing-maintain-your-own-pumidor/
https://teadb.org/low-barrier-puerh-storage-solutions-for-casual-puerh-drinkers/
https://teadb.org/puerh-outdoor-indoor-home-storage/
otherwise just keep it like your normal teas.

[Anonymous No.17847235]

>>17847176
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.17848074]

Man i really need to no use shit OP images

[Anonymous No.17848945]

>>17844438
I can imagine him scoffing and doing a chuckle to himself as he shakes his head while someone is genuinely enjoying their tea from a bag, so I can understand why people may not like him much. That being said, he knows what he's talking about and if you follow his advice with brewing techniques, you're pretty much always going to make a cup you'll enjoy.

[Anonymous No.17850465]

>>17846565
瓷砖茶

[Anonymous No.17850829]

only 2 more months before my tea arrives

[Anonymous No.17850844]

>>17850829
My tea arrives... TODAY. Should have bought shincha like me, sucker.

[Anonymous No.17850848]

>>17850829
>>17850844
mine arrives tomorrow :)

[Anonymous No.17850854]

Of fuck finally some sincha coming in, it's time for those mean greens

[Anonymous No.17850977]

Anyone ever make milktea with loose leaves?

[Anonymous No.17851152]

>>17850977
It's pretty popular
https://senchateabar.com/blogs/blog/milk-tea-recipe
This second recipe is pretty specialized if you have had Japanese milk tea and want to remake it at home just like you remember
https://wandertokyo.com/milk-tea/

[Anonymous No.17851169]

>>17850977
What do you mean by "milk tea", exactly? Just tea mixed with a milk base and sweetener, possibly light spices? I have done that mostly with cold brews rather than hot tea infusions, which ends up quite low-maintenance and pleasantly smooth. If you mean something like the flavored "milk oolongs", I honestly haven't had the fortune of trying any yet.

I rarely discard my leaves outright anymore, instead tossing them into a water-filled jar in my refrigerator to act as a rolling cold brew of sorts. I extract all remaining essence over a few days' worth of sessions, which I pour off into a separate (ideally lidded) vessel when I'm ready to drink it. This really smooth, economic tea can have some very pleasant notes in itself (mine from yesterday had a nice honey quality to it). To go a step beyond this, I add some almond milk and maybe a touch of stevia, and either stir in a cup or shake to incorporate if it's in a capped bottle or jar. Maybe a bit of cinnamon or nutmeg if you want some inoffensive spice. Very simple, and quite useful during these days where it is becoming hotter and hotter. Give it a try; it's easy and pays off well when it's sweltering out!

[Anonymous No.17851199]

>>17850977
>>17851169
iirc royal milk tea is a Japanese way of brewing tea, you brew the leaves in a saucepan with 50/50 milk water then strain

[Anonymous No.17851213]

>>17851152
>>17851169
>>17851199
Thanks anons! I’ll try it out

[Anonymous No.17851336]

>>17851199
I am so sorry but that sounds retarded. Why not brew it strong with pure water then pour it into a half-full cup of milk so the milk doesn't cook and a saucepan doesn't get dirty?

[Anonymous No.17851423]

>>17851336
milk thickens when heated and saucepans aren't hard to wash. it might extract some fat soluble compounds which wouldn't happen in just water, also the cold milk would cool the tea too much. heating milk for tea or coffee isn't than uncommon

[Anonymous No.17851493]

I made the milktea with keemun congou and brown sugar, is pretty good

[Anonymous No.17851636]

[Anonymous No.17851647]

>>17851636
How's it feel to give this free shipping, you Japanese cucks?

[Anonymous No.17851658]

>>17851647
Oh hey got mine today too
Ippodo US ships from a US warehouse tho

[Anonymous No.17851660]

>>17851647
Pretty good looking leafs. Most stuff I've gotten is little crumbles, whereas this is mostly needles.

[Anonymous No.17851684]

>>17851660
Neat, going to infuse them soon? I completely skipped the greens season, but I hear this was a good one due to the weather.

[Anonymous No.17851711]

>>17851660
>>17851684
I brewed this today,I'll post in the new thread because this one is almost 10 posts to bump limit

[Anonymous No.17851732]

>>17851660
Despite how intact the leaves are, the tea is translucent with little white suspended bits and the actual sediment on the bottom is green. They don't specify the steaming, but it looks light steamed.

The smell is faintly of grass clippings yet the flavor isn't at all. It's exactly like wakame. Oceany. Really UMAMI. Surprisingly so. I have gyokuro that's less savory. Very mild bitterness that's hard to notice. The astringency isn't so bad at first but by the time I've finished the cup I'd say it's like 4/5 briskness.

I'm following the package instructions. It suggests three steeps so two more to go.

[Anonymous No.17851742]

>>17851636
Deenz!
>>17851732
Looks good

[Anonymous No.17851745]

>>17851732
I brewed mine 10 grams to 140 ml water, 1 minute, 30 seconds, 80 minutes at 60 C

Brewed in a tokoname pot so not a pure flavor but no bitterness and very strong umami spinach flavor. One of the better sencha I've had.

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tea

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new thread in a second

[Anonymous No.17851792]

>>17812194
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>>17851790
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