Red Snoot Writes - July 2025 Newsletter
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The Brita Battles - Filter? Or Foe? - Water Update 4
I drank 4 sessions of 2008 801 Dayi 8582 yesterday...here are the events of that day recounted through the lens of a Snoot, desperately trying to learn hydrology (probably the wrong term), apply an increasingly nebulous and woefully inefficient grasp of it to tea, and pray one day he
2003 Chen Yuan Hao Manzhuan - Good Water
Context: This is the second tasting of this tea for the blog, off the back of this article here: 2003 Chen Yuan Hao Manzhuan - Wacky WaterThis article was written first, there is a second tasting entry I consider the more “true” entry with corrected water. Moving forward, tasting notes
Water Woes - Update 3; A Corner Turned?
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
2003 Chen Yuan Hao Manzhuan - Wacky Water
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