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#baimudan twig and leaf... #whitetea #chinesetea #gongfuchaFinished off the last 12 grams of a 2012 Ba Da #shengpuerh in a 300 ml pot. A very nice way to lose an entire morning and a good bit of the early afternoon.... #tea #chineseteaware #chinesetea #teapot #gongfucha #rawpuerhLuckily the lid from a seldom used pot was a perfect fit for a favourite pot's broken one... #tea #chineseteaware #teapotAnother charity shop find...currently used for #japanesegreentea@white2tea 's #dailydrinker #rawpuerh worked superbly well as a pre-dinner party appetite whetter and mood setter... #tea #chinesetea #chineseteaware #gongfucha #gongdaobei #shengpuerh#genmaicha by @yamamotoyama_usa
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Category Archives: tea making techniques
A Change Of Style
My tea drinking habits have definitely changed over the past year.
Posted in tea making techniques
Tagged Chinese teapot, tea, tea bowl, teaism, Western style
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Home Roasted Gyokuro
This mini-project started out as an idea I had after reading a post over at Eustea Reads, where Eustacia, the owner of the blog, talked about her experiences making her own Hojicha, by home roasting a past-its-best Sencha.
Posted in tea making techniques
Tagged experimental teas, green tea, Gyokuro, Japanese tea, kyusu, roasted tea, tea, teaism
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A Big Old Pot Of Sheng
Trigger warning: possible intermediary level fanboyism and incoherent rambling ahead.
Posted in tea diary, tea making techniques, teaware
Tagged Chinese teaware, Daily Drinker, gong-fu cha, raw Pu-erh, sheng Pu-erh, tea, teaism, Western style
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Reon Spout Strainer
Recently I was moving my teaware cupboard to make better use of our kitchen countertop real estate, and in doing so rediscovered an old pot that I’d kind of half forgotten.
Posted in review, tea making techniques, teaware
Tagged black tea, charity shop, Keemun Congou, Reon, tea, tea strainer, teaism, teapot cleaning, teaware
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Scratching An Itch – A Home Brewed Tea Timer
There’s an old saying that goes something like this – “an awful lot of computer programs are written by someone with an itch they needed to scratch.”
Summer 2019 – The Strange Case of the Disappearing Flavours
“Where are the berries?”, said Mrs. Teaist. “You did, did you not, promise me berries?”. She was right. I had, and there weren’t any.
Masala Chai Revisited
This post began as a challenge from my womenfolk that came about during a visit to a new Indian restaurant in town.
Another Away Kit Experiment
I stared in open-mouthed disbelief – Mrs. Teaist was wide awake at 6:45 am. On a Sunday.
Brewing Up With Bottled Water
This post is about another on-going experiment I’m running.
Kettle Smackdown
During an idle moment I was looking at my çaydanlik, and for the first time it occurred to me that the lower pot, the kettle part, has a lid of its own. In normal use, of course, the upper pot … Continue reading
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