TeaChat

PolyhymnianMuse wrote:

slurp wrote:there's thousands of new puerh cakes out there - surely we cant organise them all in one thread???

I suppose the idea behind this thread is to be geared more towards the new cakes out that are worth mentioning, not just a new pu free-for-all

Correct.

heres a good looking deal.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-Early-Spring-R ... dZViewItem

shogun89 wrote:heres a good looking deal.
http://cgi.ebay.com/2008-Early-Spring-R ... dZViewItem

I don't care for border tea, but it is a pretty good value. Anyone had aged border tea? If this stuff ages well I'll invest, but all young border tea that I've had just kind of tastes brutal.

I've had 70's border tea and it is not that good.
It is cheap, though, and a fair lesson in aging.

This is what I am going to ask for for Christmas from YSLLC. It may vary a bit however, by then.

2008 Menghai Tea Factory * 8582 * Raw Pu-erh Tea cake $10.50
2008 Haiwan * 958 Menghai Raw Pu-erh tea tuo * 500g $9.90
2008 Mengku Mu Ye Chun "Old Tree Green Cake" Raw Pu-erh $13.20
2008 Mengku "Old Tree, Green Cake" Raw Pu-erh * 400g $12.00
2008 Haiwan Tea Factory * 9928 Blended Ripe Pu-erh tea (*2) $11.70

Mengyang Gouyan 66 blend 2007

A good deal of bitterness, especially in the first few infusions. Gongfu brew started with a rinse of 5 seconds. Following brews: seconds, 10, 15, 25, 35, 45, 60
I found it grassy with some earthiness and mineral notes. No melon or anything else you'd like to find. I'm hoping that changes. More pics on my forum http://www.beanleafgrape.com/forum

I kinda liked that cake, for the price. Yes it is bitter, but it should age nicely.

I'm going to give it another run this weekend. I recently received a digital gram scale. I need it for consistency in both tea and espresso dosing. I used it today with some Mengku and realized that I was (when eye-balling it) using a bit less than I should.

I hope that Guoyan 66 is better than their 88.

Hop told me that the 88 is bad. so yeah, the 66 should be better. I'll tell you once I sample it.