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Goji Berry Shou Pu-erh
I happened across the idea behind this experiment when I was reading the Wikipedia Pu-erh page.
Posted in tea diary, tea making techniques, tea types
Tagged Chinese tea, cooked Pu-erh, flavoured tea, goji berry, Golden Sail, Pu-erh, ripe Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism, wolfberry
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2004 Jianshen Tuo
I spotted this tea while I was shopping at White2Tea‘s website. I’d just dropped a beeng of their Daily Drinker into my cart, and was browsing, seeing what else they had to tempt me with.
Posted in review, tea diary
Tagged Chinese tea, Lancang Tea Factory, Pu-erh, raw Pu-erh, sheng, tea, teaism, Tuo cha, White2Tea, Yunnan
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White2Tea “Hot & Heavy”
You have to love the fact that a tea named “Hot & Heavy” arrived just as our bit of the Scandinavian Peninsula experienced its first major snowfall of the year.
Crunching the Numbers
The other day I enjoyed a good, long Great Uncle style session with White2Tea’s Daily Drinker, and got to wondering how much the tea I had drunk had actually cost when compared to an average quality tea bag, such as … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese tea, James Norwood Pratt, price of tea, tea, teaconomics, teaism
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White2Tea Daily Drinker
I’d been reading interesting things about White2Tea for quite a while, especially in the blogs of Char (Oolong Owl) and Cwyn (Death By Tea), and was keen to try them out.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Daily Drinker, Pu-erh, raw Pu-erh, sheng, tea, teaism, White2Tea, Yunnan
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Great Uncle Style
This is a tea making technique I like to call Great Uncle style.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Great Uncle style, tea, teaism
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2016 Dong Fang Mei Ren
Let’s not beat around the tea bush here – this tea enjoys legendary status, and quite rightly so.
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Tagged Dong Fang Mei Ren, Oolong, Oriental Beauty, Taiwanese tea, tea, teaism
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Lessons With a Master
There’s a term in Chinese, Chá rén (茶人), literally “tea person“, that succinctly sums up someone who’s life seems to revolve around tea, and no-one better represents the concept than Master Lin Ping Xiang.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Global Tea Hut, Master Lin Ping Xiang, tea, teaism, Wuyi mountain
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Wuyi Shan Shui Hsien
When it comes to the subject of Oolongs, this is the kind of tea that I simply adore – a well roasted strip Oolong from the famous Wuyi Shan mountain area in Fujian Province on the Chinese mainland.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Fujian, Oolong, Shui Hsien, tea, teaism, Wuyi Shan
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Teaware Hacking
Although I’m very pleased with the performance of our Ikea Riklig teapot, it’s not perfect.
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