Just about the last of this Autumn 2022 Jingmai Black #2 from Farmer Leaf. Mostly small and broken leaves, keeping steeps short. Should maybe have brewed Western style.
Well, why not believe the impossible, reach for the improbable? We do it all the time when we listen to the news readers and accept what they say as true.
Better to put that energy into determining what it is we want to achieve, and go about achieving it.
May the artwork bring to both you and the person to whom you send the card a moment of calmness and peace, a celebration of tranquility that we enjoy when we take time out to enjoy the many treasures in our lives.
The Shou/Ripened/Cooked Puerh process was originally created as an attempt to imitate the effect of long aging on Raw Puerh tea cakes. While, instead, they mostly created the new class of Puerh, Ripe.
With Riparian White2Tea has returned to those roots of attempting to imitate the character of long aged Puerh with an experimental blend of semi-aged raw puerh and lighter ferment ripe puerh. Still very freshly pressed, it's already almost convincing in the color and early steeps. Later steeps are a bit thin, but It will be interesting to see what shape Riparian settles into in a year or two.
Song Luo Cha green tea is an historically significant tea from Anhui Province. This example is from the MyTea Pal Club. Light flavor, slight (not unpleasant) bitterness if you oversteep, zippy energy.
For International Tea Day, my Green Tea Chemistry print. This linocut illustrates green tea and its chemistry. There's a tea pot, two cups of tea and a tea plant (Camellia sinensis) on a tray, and in the steam, you can see some of the organic chemicals found in green tea. Up to 27% of the composition of green tea can be a member of the flavonoids called catechins like the molecule illustrated on the right. 🧵1/n
#tea#greenTea#chemistry#linocut#sciart#printmaking#InternationalTeaDay
Cool, my home nitro drink machine finally arrived. Gonna experiment making nitrogen-infused drinks, especially teas over the weekend, I guess. Gotta dismantle and wash all the parts thoroughly first.
2020 Imperial Pure Bud Yunnan Black Tea of Simao from Yunnan Sourcing. I actually like this tea a lot more 4 years out than when I first got it. Not that it has developed in any meaningful way, like Puerh might, mostly it has just mellowed.
Ever tried a chai latte from Starbucks? Years ago, I did, and then I got obsessed. After some searching, I finally found a way to recreate it at home. Here's my recipe: 20ml Monin Syrup Chai tea + 200ml Vanilla Oat Milk. Voila! Homemade perfection. #photooftheday#photo#photography#tea
Xiaguan 2003 Cang'er raw puerh. I would call this a pretty typical upper middle Xiaguan aged raw puerh. Rock-like compression, light smoke, umami, and forest floor; well integrated flavors. Via Liquid Proust, I don't remember any details they might have provided about storage, but seems dry-ish considering age.
That thing, where it is early in the morning, you've fixed your breakfast of a single packet of instant oatmeal and dry wheat toast, you've added the boiling water to the oatmeal, poured a mug of water with Earl Grey to steep, you eat the toast to allow the hot water in the oatmeal to expand a bit, you start eating the oatmeal, and then BAM. You didn't stir the oatmeal enough so halfway through you get all of the sugar added to the packet in one bite and your world is UPSIDE DOWN.
That will wake you up much quicker than the Earl Grey could ever hope for.
2024 Meng Ding Mao Feng green tea from MyTeaPal club. This is the Sichuan Mao Feng, the other was from Guizhou. This one is an earlier pick than the other and it shows in the cleaner, sweeter flavors/scents of the tea. They're both great green teas, but if I picked one to drink more of, I'd probably pick the Mei Tan Mao Feng from Guizhou.
If you like #Tea, I think the teaware at Yunnan Sourcing is one of the best you can do without getting into super high end stuff. Most Chinese teaware for the Western market has a very high markup. This one is reasonable.
I read Chinese and can technically buy this stuff direct but I prefer their curation and service