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OK! This one is gonna be pretty comprehensive, not massive, about 2,000 words. So, status update: * Been, what; a month and a half? * Bad tea the whole time, just sorta stopped drinking it. * Not just 'subpar', but genuinely not good in some cases. * Most recent tasting (03
This article was written first, there is a second tasting entry I consider the more "true" entry with corrected water. Moving forward, tasting notes will again be normal. Here is that article: 2003 Chen Yuan Hao Manzhuan - Good WaterContext: This is the second tasting of this tea for
That's right! All the way from Greece - which, I guess feels farther and more unique to me cause of what it is. Although, I suppose it really isn't farther than China and Taiwan from the traditions of the far east, but still. I suppose it really
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Yang Qing Hao
Context: This is a tea I know, but don't know. I have a cake, of which this session is from. I have had samples from various places. I didn't care much for this tea out of the lineup a mere 3-4 years ago, even 2.
Tastings
I think with any serious tea drinker that's reading tasting notes, they likely fall into one of the following buckets: 1. It's fun to read what friends think about a tea. 2. It's a reference point for how others think about evaluating tea. 3.
Water
First, some brief housekeeping: * I am going to be doing testing with Saratoga bottled but in plastic cause I'm just not willing to spend on their price for glass. More to come on this. * I am also going to be testing a couple filters for tap water. More
Water
BIG DISCLAIMER: I procured fresh, never used Lizella clay kettle stones from the most recent firing of a batch of Lizella teapots. These were as fresh as fresh comes, and were only used for about 2.5 days. I am good friend's with Mark and he is a
Letters to the Tea Community
The tea community needs more love - not just passion Passion is wonderful, magnetic, and good. Passion can also be misguided Having passion is...sadly rare; we should celebrate it when we see it. Yet, passion alone doesn't get us there. We can be immensely passionate but blind or
Water
So there I am I'm sitting down on a Monday morning to have some CYH Zhiwang (2007), a "unicorn piss" tea as one member of the community calls it haha ๐. I prepare my 1960's hongni teapot, preheat the vessel, grab my leaf, and get
Yang Qing Hao
Context: 10g sample, first session of two. While most brews are Empirical Water Glacial (link below), slightly heavier empirical water cross between glacial and spring was used for this tea. It was 40% spring per recipe, 60% filtered tap in this batch. After some feeling it out, the water is
Letters to the Tea Community
My goodness would I just adore having a room like that. Those sorts of spaces feel almost...sacred. Havens, in a world of havoc. To be surrounded by endless books, a never ending fountain of knowledge to immerse myself in...a sort of, paradise, in a form. Perhaps one day