This is the thread for discussing teas, tisanes, and other herbal infusions. Info on types of teas, where to buy, and how to brew: https://rentry.org/tea-pastebin Previous thread: >>21831172
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>>21857070>why does my tea taste fishy?Cause you have bad quality teaNext question.
>>21857070Should I get back into /tea/ after not drinking any for 4 years? All my puerh got ruined by mold growing in my college dorm room and I ragequit. I know I still have all my equipment in a box somewhere but I would have to start my tea collection from scratch.
Sippin ne some 2018 Flapjacks.Whats in your cup today?
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tfw no trad storage gf
*SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP*
>>21857176another Pajarito day, poured some up from my official Pajarito yerba mate storage tin>>21857087also, I'm chasing the Pajarito with some Sea Dyke lao cong shui xian from KTM
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>>21857192Kraus Organico, from my official Kraus Organico storage tin. Also I find the Porongo cup shape a lot easier to maintain a mountain than my Calabash, on the other hand it is much harder to flood the mountain once the lower part is leached out.
>>21857114just imagine if one day i meet a cute girl who gives a f for good tea
>>21857114ordered a portable 2 person gaiwan set, to share tea with my gal on picnics this season
>>21857084life doens´t give much more besides sex, good times with people we love and hobbies, also a job. I guess you know the answer.
>>21857176>>21857192Rosamonte day for me.>>21857193That patina is coming along nicely.>>21857288Good shit.
>fishy taste is good as long as you call it 'funk' or 'dank'Also, no. There is funk and dank and there is fishy. You know it once you taste real fishy.
My FarmerLeaf order finally arrived, William threw in a free Spring 2025 Jing Mai MiYun sample, which is nice. I was hoping for a tea knife, but I'll take it.I'm curious about the yellow flakes and what I hope will be a proper example of Oolong.Next order will probably be Oolong cheapies from TeaHome.My record is pretty spotty, the first I have ever tried was a beautiful Muzha TieGuanYin from Taiwan.The second specimen was a totally overroasted and burnt factory reject mystery Oolong and the third was another mystery product that had a strong artificial peach flavor, pretty nasty stuff.
Anyone tried this GABA oolong at fullchea?https://www.fullchea-tea.com/products/taiwan-high-mountain-oolong-gaba-tea-gaba-oolong>>21857558Although I haven't tried that one, FL's oolongs are pretty nice, should be a lot better than those trashy ones at least
>>21857114>>21857245shouldn't be too difficult, it's a very girly drink after all.
>>21857070I just had some Japanese tea from Ikkyu. I like it, especially that seaweed taste on gyokuro, but it is absurdly overpriced. 10x the price of Chinese tea.
>>21857070I hate that weird brown fella from mei leaf: every tea he sells is supposedly from a 6 gorillion year old tree planted by the yellow emperor himself, yet tastes astonishingly average.>>21857176South Americans are an absurd people. They should make it all at once in a pot, then filter it, rather than do that, or use a gaiwan; getting clogged up with leaves, passing it around-very, very unhygienic and inneficient. I don't care if it's dey kulcha
>>21857070Why do Fags like OP hate things that taste like vagina?
>>21857740>inneficienthonestly yerba mate brewing is the most efficient tea brewing method I've seenyou just pour more hot water from a thermos and keep gulping, you can do this for a long time too with many brews and you don't get leavves in your mouthit's like the best parts of grandpa and gong fu style combined
>>21857087Finishing up this San He bronze tin liu bao this week. Not bad, since I bought it some of the old books smell disappeared, it's a clean slightly medicinal and sweet taste, mild but relaxing.Gotta figure out which liu bao to try next, been eyeing up a san he brick on chawangshop.
The autumn 2025 Baoshan Beauty oolong is way different than I had expected.Strong floral aroma at first and in the nose (jasmine? I haven't tried jasmine tea yet but I imagine that's what it tastes like), that gives way for a cocoa/chocolate taste. Slight bitterness, dries out the mouth, sweet aftertaste. The floral taste does linger on.It's way different than my MuZha TieGuanYin, which has a very delicate vanilla and slight coconut aroma. How odd.
How many of yall have a temperature controlled kettle? Or are you really cool like me and stick a meat thermometer in to see when the water is the right temp. Tell me of your water heating methods.
>>21858113William said in one of his recent videos that only bitchass niggas stress out about water temperature
>>21858113As for me, I use the OXO non-gooseneck temperature controlled kettle. I quite like it. It means that there's one less thing for me to worry about when brewing tea. >>21858135That's only if you're drinking chink tea (and maybe outside of Dan Congs, since those tend to be temperamental.) Nip tea is pretty sensitive to temperature, and even a couple of degrees off can fuck up the flavor or make it horribly bitter.
>>21857082Is that it? Cool i thought it was something gross
>>21858150That's why Japan invented a separate piece of teaware specifically for cooling the water.
>>21857698i will kill you>>21857740>I hate that weird brown fella from mei leafi love him though, please don´t talk shit about him thank you
>>21857288Why would handmade be preferable to machine made?
>>21858196>buy $190 handmade Japanese Yuzamashi instead of $30 temp controlled kettlebased
>>21858387collectible value, handmade antiques are lot more valuable than machine made mass goods.
>>21858387Chinaman sweat is essential to tea's flavour.>>21858196>>21858566>yuzawatahcoolahmashiI do this but with an ordinary jug.
Anybody have a pure silver teapot? I've been mulling one forever but now I'm FOMOing with the prices as they are.
>>21858938You want your tea to taste powdery?
>>21857070>tea tasting fishy is a good thingDo you niggers really? That sounds like some /wg/ retardation.
>>21858976No?
>>21858938No, but I have some experience collecting historic silverware, protip, unless the interior of your pot is gilded you'll get metal taste from tea, tannins will do that with silver.
>>21857740You see, ierba mate “cerimonial” drinking originated among gauchos, an extremely homosexual ethnicity of country bumpkins native to the northern southern cone. If anything surrounding mate sounds gay, it probably is. Most of them got killed in the early 20th century and the other inhabitants of the region got nostalgic about them and started adopting some of their customs.
>>21858984Then don’t use silverware.
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>>21858990>>21858996I thought using a silver teapot was supposed to be a very pure and unadulterated drinking experience. It's extremely inert, isn't it?
>>21859021nope, beverages with acids and tannins like in wine or tea will react enough with silver to get a taste. thats why silver cups get gilded on the interior.
>>21858135did drinking cha cause his hair to start falling out?
>>21859032That's probably just oxidation, silver turns yellowish when it oxidizes
>>21859053no, it doesn't.
>>21859053>>21859066It tarnishes in the presence of sulfur (along with oxygen, although it is reversible), but I can't imagine that's happening to people's teapots. Just poorly kept heirloom silverware. Thanks. I'm probably priced out anyway.
