Hi! Please make yourself at home c:

As titled - what is your preferred brew or steep method?

What do you drink the most? Hot or cold?

I drink a lot of oolong and pu-erh teas brewing gong-fu style and I have yet to try coldbrew c:

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    1 year ago

    This is a cooked, wet-store pu’er. I’m using a set of tea pliers (more convenient than the more traditional tea knives) to break some off for brewing.

    This is that tea brewed in my portable pot/cup combo.

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      1 year ago

      Yum! I see that it’s shu, how does this one taste? Also, that mini shiboridashi-ish thing is pretty!

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        1 year ago

        This was a fairly aged cooked (about 10 years, IIRC?) so it was very earthy and almost mushroomy in the aftertaste. One of the more mellow ones.

        Personally I prefer raws, though. The cooked, however, are more forgiving and more suited to off-the-cuff brews like the one there: the raws require very precise timing to avoid that flood of bitters; I’d use a full-on tea set most times.