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Excuses of a Tea Drunk
It's not too early for one.Dinner can wait.I can let them cry a little longer.You told me I should try and get healthy.Mother is almost done.I just need a pit stop.Well the old man drinks beer...
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Days of Gong Fu Standing
What is the tea that celebrates Loss? I'm not sorry to turn over a new year. Even better, turning the year over twice: once with the western calendar and again with the Chinese calendar. The more I can...
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Royal Doulton or Yixing?
When you get to my age, the world changes so fast I can't possibly keep up. I've got enough to worry about these days but lo and behold, the Rules of Tea have changed. The BBC has posted a shocking...
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Cwyn's Limited Pu Shirt
Cwyn's Not Quite Dead and Still Drinking Pu shirt.Limited Edition t-shirtI will have 30 XL and 20 L and that is IT!(this is all I could talk Dear Son into paying for)Coming March 11!Logo on front, back...
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i Pet my Xiaguans in Bed
I have reached a new level of Low, and yes I'm going to tell you about it. Using one's blog for confessional purposes is indeed pithy and tacky, but I know for a fact that tea drunks have few other...
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Puerh Storage Report: Still Crocking #3
"Before" photo of 2013 Zhanglang Gushu, and 2012 Spring Bada Dashu My maocha fermentation has reached Day 35 in the large vintage crock bowl. I haven't reported on the tea in awhile because no real...
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1996 CNNP 7532 and Nugs
Recently I received a 10g sample of the 1996 CNNP "Green in Orange" 7532 with my paid order from white2tea. Always a lucky event to get an "aged" sample in a tea order! My order included the new 2014...
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Why I won't order spring tea
The post office has lost yet another tea package, a swap sent by a friend. And so I'm reminded why my spring tea purchases this year won't include Dragonwell. Nor any other fresh tea. Last year my...
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Puerh Crock Fermentation Report--Final
Day 35When I wet down the tea on day 39 using Last Thoughts brew, I noted dark syrup drips from the fermenting tea leaves. You could see this in the above photo from day 35 on my last report. I just...
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mr. mopar's Puerh Storage
My friend mr. mopar aka mrmopu might be familiar to many of you who hang out on tea forums like Teachat and Steepster. He offers encouragement to new puerh drinkers, promotes discussion on puerh, and...
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Wilson and William
Wilson's 2009 Haiwan No. 1 ShouRecently some tea samples arrived in the mail from tea blogger Wilson, making me a grateful recipient of tea that I surely have no chance of trying otherwise. Wilson's...
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Wymm-en Puerh
Wymm Tea sampler sachetsI tried to refuse this week's tea sampling. When Wymm Tea contacted me about trying some of their puerh, I took a look and saw green, green, green. This isn't puerh for Old...
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When Crock Puerh Storage works TOO well
Jar on the left is the culprit.Today I discovered one of my storage jars seemed to be developing a touch of mold on top of the tea and I decided to pour out the loose tea into a larger vessel. To my...
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Untanned Yak Butt 1994 Ya'an Kang Zhuan
1994 Brick HeichaBrick heicha is tea for the brave, or the crazy, of which I'm definitely one, and crazier than usual. What was I thinking when I ordered nearly a half kilo brick of 1994 Sichuan Ya'an...
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A Nun's Penitential Biscuit
Penitential BiscuitsPenitential Biscuit of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration聖方濟各永久朝拜聖體修女會Ingredients1 cup shortening (or 1/2 cup margarine and 1/2 cup butter)4 Tablespoons sugar2 eggs3/4...
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A "Bit" about Qi
"Impression," 2014 Yunnan Sourcing I want to write a bit about the concept of qi in tea. People have an understanding and experience with this quality of tea, but describing it in a rational way is...
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This Much is True, Relatively Speaking
Spring is in very early days for tea, and I find myself thinking about this year's tea cakes even though I could easily let such thoughts slide for another month or two. I think what brought this up is...
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All the Better to Smell You With
Just before Easter I decided to treat myself to some tea ware and purchase a fragrance cup. I didn't own one before, and lately I'm getting more immune to certain tea scents. What's a puerh drinker who...
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What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Rose Window of Notre Dame CathedralTea is our Benzedrine, yah huh. Every day a new tea company opens up. Well, maybe a dozen new tea companies. And they all have a new Zen logo and Zen photos of teas...
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Best New Tea Books
My favorite tea cookbook hands down. To die for: the Bulang Buttercream between stone-pressed layers of Menghai Melons. To appreciate the nuggets of tea wisdom in this volume, you need to read the...
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