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Category Archives: tea making techniques
Mandarin Shou, Part 2
This is the somewhat delayed follow up post to my earlier experiment in jacking loose leaf shou Pu-erh with the flavour of Chinese mandarin peel – you can read that post here.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, flavoured tea, mandarin peel, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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The Bottom of the Caddy
You know before opening the caddy that this will be the last session with that particular tea. The caddy feels unusually light, and the few lonely leaves left inside make an odd, metallic scraping noise as they slide about.
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Tagged Chinese tea, gaiwan, Silver Needle, tea, teaism, white tea
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Green Tea With Lemongrass
A post over at Cat’s Tea of the Day got me thinking about lemongrass flavoured green tea.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, lemongrass, organic tea, tea, teaism
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Cold Brew, Mk. II
When the warm weather returned with a bang, I felt it was the perfect time to re-start Project Coldbrew, for what could be better than a glass of iced tea in your hand to accompany those mid-summery moments?
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Tagged Chinese tea, cold brewed tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, organic tea, tea, teaism
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Notes From The Road – Two Jugs and a Spoon
A good tea person will always be ready to adapt his or her tea making technique as circumstances dictate, and this is never more true as when you’re away from home.
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Tagged Cha hai, Chinese tea, Gong dao bei, Oolong, Pu-erh, shou, tea, tea pitcher, teaism
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A Fair Crack of the Whip
I was drinking my early morning pot of green tea when a thought occurred – I’d only used the tea boat from the clay teaware collection I picked up in Stockholm last month.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Chinese teapot, Chinese teaware, mini beeng cha, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Mandarin Peel Shou Pu-erh, Take 1
This was a follow on experiment from my earlier attempt to flavour loose leaf shou Pu-erh tea with dried chrysanthemum flowers. The idea itself was inspired by the fact that it is possible to buy shou Pu-erh artfully wrapped in … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, flavoured tea, mandarin peel, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Chrysanthemum Flavoured Shou Pu-erh
I got the idea for this experiment when reading my recently purchased book “Pu-erh Tea”, by Wang Jidong.
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Tagged Chinese tea, chrysanthemum, flavoured tea, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Cold Brewed Green Tea – Getting Set For Summer
Seeing as our recent dusting of snow has melted, the bitter North wind retreated back to its Arctic lair, and temperatures finally nudged back above freezing, I’m starting to become slightly more optimistic regarding the eventual return of clement weather.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cold brewed tea, green tea, Maojian, summer drink, tea, teaism
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Look After Your Leaves
As the saying goes “You can’t make good tea out of bad leaves, but you can make bad tea out of good leaves“.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Imperial Teas, tea, tea caddy, tea storage, teaism
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