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A Few Wrapper Metrics
Ever since white2tea announced the decision to go region-free this year with their tea labels, I've been thinking about changes like this and how they will affect us as tea buyers. Leaving regions out...
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Mother
I didn't get my tea review done this week.But I have excuses! Lately I've been sleeping out on the porch with my sheng crocks. Young people think sleeping outside is a swell idea but the truth is, it's...
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2015 Last Thoughts and Bitter Things
There's bitter feelings, bitter thoughts of you.Oh, bitter things in life that have come true,With never ending heartaches, never ending tears,Bitter feelings and bitter thoughts of you."Bitter...
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the Back-Up Plan
Sejak, left; hwangcha, right.Might surprise a few of you that I do drink tea other than puerh. Every pu head needs to have a back up plan for those occasions when drinking puerh just isn't possible....
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2013 Jing Gu Old Arbor Yunnan Sourcing
Are you being served?Recently I received this sample of Yunnan Sourcing's 2013 Jing Gu Old Arbor along with a purchase of other teas. Today I'm digging it out and when I check to see if the cake is...
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I Shaved my Face for This
Tuesday's Tea with TwoDogWhen an old Tea Whore like me catches up with a Tea Pimp, I get a bit of old tyme religion. For a whole day in advance I take a personal inventory of all the bad tea I've been...
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A Clover Experiment
Nothing like summer in Cow Country to get inspired on tea fermentation. This time, I've been duly influenced by my recent get-together with white2tea. I needed to get my storage evaluated and so I...
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Three Days
Summer of ShengOn these hot days I'm sleeping out on my three season porch with my tea, while my ex mother-in-law enjoys the comforts of my air conditioned bedroom. Aside from the hot weather effects...
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You Know How I Worry
I recently surprised a friend by saying I don't spend much time chatting with tea vendors. Given the constant mixing of vendors and tea drinkers on social media these days, one hardly knows where tea...
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Parched, de-CoN-ed and w/o Tea
Summer hasn't really been hot enough for me, so to change things up I spent this week at the local air field doing mass disaster training with the National Guards, Air Force and emergency medical...
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2004 Lao Ban Zhang Bamboo puerh-sk
A bit warm for aged puerh these days.In spring I picked up a sample of this tea from puerh-sk after purchasing a teapot. I have no business visiting puerh-sk except that my friends on Instagram egg me...
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Sexy Tea Names
People say you can't get everything you want in a tea. But that's not true. If the definition of Qi is the spiritual energy running through everything in the universe, then tea can be She, He and...
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Tea Shop Day Trips
Time on my hands and many day trips to be had. Visiting shops is an important activity as a tea hoarder, and the haul you can get for a little bit of work on your part is well worth the time spent. My...
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2015 Bosch White2Tea
2015 Bosch white2teaMy week of fainting in the arms of the National Guard got me the funds to purchase my very own cake of Bosch, something I've been looking forward to since white2tea released their...
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I'm All Wet (and So Are You)
Currently I'm in a state of suffering in a heat wave of +40s C with high dew points. Now this sort of weather is very common in many parts of the world, but not in snow country where I live. And we're...
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Extreme Prejudice
This week I've been graced by the presence of a former tenant of mine that I haven't seen in awhile. I've written about him a little, a retired 65 year old country singer who is occasionally mentally...
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2014 Autumn Zhang Ping Shui Xian
9-10 gram size squaresPicked up a 5-pack of these little 9-10 gram Autumn tea pillows with my spring sheng order from Chawangshop.com. I'd been eyeing these for a few months, and shortly after I got...
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Revisiting Storage of Puerh Teas
The weather this week in Wisconsin is expected to be warm and humid, unlike the cold, dry and then rainy weather of the past two weeks. So I open up all my crocks and the pumidor for what may well be...
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Wisconsin Fermentation Fest Post #100
Wisconsin Fermentation FestThis is Happy Post #100 for deathbytea, hard to believe I've yakked on this long already. And I have met some incredible people since I started this blog in August 2014, and...
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