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Getting on my Manzhuan
I don't know what the problem is, but lately I can't seem to get on a good tea drunk. Fine, I'll admit the first step: I'm addicted to tea, my puerh habit has become unmanageable, and probably only a...
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Purple Haze
I'm having a mild panic attack at the moment. The kind a tea addict gets when faced with the prospect of a favorite tea selling out. Right now I'm still in the initial moment of sitting in frozen...
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Tea for Old People
Portrait of a Burmese Lady, by Urs SchweitzerSucks to be old. I've been in bed for four days now with a bad back, some eroded disc that acts up on me, especially when I've overdone and when the weather...
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Goodfellas
Tea might be the ultimate boys club. This isn't a conclusion I arrive at lightly, nor without some consideration. No, I have to examine the boys clubs I've survived so far, mostly through luck and...
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Viaduct and Not a Chicken
Sometimes jokes are so old nobody gets the references anymore. You'd have to be a Marx Brothers fan to get my title here, AND a white2tea club member to know which tea I'm talking about. If you got...
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Chip, and How I Fixed Him But Good
ChipNothing distresses a die-hard tea addict more than losing a beloved teapot. It's like losing an old friend when a teapot injury is so severe that we have no choice but to toss it. A cracked Yixing...
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Auld Lang Chai
At the end of the year, we all wax nostalgic and get more honest with ourselves. As far as holidays go, tea drunks don't send out holiday greeting cards. We're too busy emailing tea vendors to possibly...
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Little Green Apples
Been on a bit of a puerh hiatus lately. The truth of aged sheng is the caffeine is aged out, and I need the boost so I've been drinking a good deal of black tea instead. And I've had my reasons.My...
View ArticleRing Ting Tinkling Too
Honestly, life would be hell without tea. Especially holidays. Fortunately, I've had some time alone to spend with my tea and nobody gave me any new tea too horrible to drink. In fact I still have last...
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Tung Ching Tonight
Still working my way through the various boxes sent to me by friends. For the past few days I've been sessioning Tea Classico's 1997 Tung Ching Hao-Chi Chang. So far I've had two sessions, one in my...
View ArticleWho Drinks This Stuff?
Many tea drinkers are busily setting up their tea budget for 2015. How much are you gonna spend? And how much over that amount will you go this year? Maybe a reality check is in order. A few working...
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$1000 Wedding
Disclaimer: I do not, repeat do not, go through life looking to reference Gram Parsons songs. Not on purpose anyway. In fact, I look to avoid any songs with potential to infiltrate my head aside from...
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A Day in the Life of an Old Tea Whore
Le Blow.co.uk8:00 a.m. Turn on phone.8:05 Start kettle for morning pot of oolong.8:10 Turn off phone.Tea Time9:00Â Empty oolong pot.9:05Â Examine last night's tea leaves, decide whether to throw...
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A Tin of Tieguanyin
Everyone needs an oolong. Especially sheng drinkers, something to balance out all that yin and gut-wrenching bitterness. Sure, we have shou, but even a dedicated shou drinker needs a change. But oolong...
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Wedging
DisasterNoooooooooo! Horror of horrors, the worst thing to happen to a puerh addict is something amiss with the teacake and it's my treasured 2005 Naka. The psychedelic must-save-for-chemotherapy...
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Puerh Storage is a Crock #2
Old Cwyn has too much tea, no doubt about it. Any more and she will be needing a larger house. In addition to wedging issues with my tea cakes in the storage fridge, I have many cakes and tuos stored...
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Cwyn's Tea Kettle Problem
It's time for a new tea kettle. Or new kettle set-up. Nothing brings out the Tea Ware OCD more than the idea of a new water boiling system. First we have the nightmare of actually shopping for...
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2009 Cha Tou Sheng Yun
Combine a long cold winter with an old lady and I get to feeling like hell. Each day I'm sleeping later and later, and while this can be good for an insomniac like me, my son is starting to notice. "I...
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Still Crocking: The Puerh Report
Starting Photo from 25 JanuaryHere is an update to the tea experiment I started back on 25 January. The tea is mouldering slowly along, much as olde Cwyn does, and I can safely say the tea is likely to...
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2009 Mengku Jade Dew: Better than it should be
2009 Mengku "Jade Dew"Better than it should be...this is a cake I purchased from Mandala Tea and in fact, I own two. As you might know from my previous posts, I don't normally go looking for newer teas...
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