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by Evan Draper » Mar 7th, '13, 20:52

This was in the latest issue of Tea Magazine. Does that look like a beeng to you?
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by futurebird » Mar 7th, '13, 21:06

It's hard to tell is it a nest? Tou?

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by Hannah » Mar 7th, '13, 23:47

Wow. Im a pu noob and even I know whats totally a tuo!

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by Jspigs » Mar 7th, '13, 23:49

I agree that is a tou.

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by JakubT » Mar 8th, '13, 01:05

Could be a minibeeng, imo.

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by Drax » Mar 8th, '13, 06:19

JakubT wrote:Could be a minibeeng, imo.
Most of the minibeengs that I've had did not have a dimple. At least, that I recall...

The wrapper in the picture also looks like the typical brown-yellow parchment-like wrapper that shows up on a lot of XG tuos.

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by gingkoseto » Mar 8th, '13, 07:44

If you don't see the whole photo, make sure to click it :D
Oh well, at least they tried to write something about puerh.

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by Evan Draper » Mar 8th, '13, 10:46

Sorry for the poor photo quality. I hurriedly scanned the magazine and compressed it to meet the attachment limitations. It's easier to tell from the whole, original picture that it is a tuo. I think Drax is right about the XG color, though I'm not seeing any XG wrappers that match the "fleur-de-lis" looking border in the picture.

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by Drax » Mar 8th, '13, 11:46

Other companies use them for tuos as well, such as Nan Jian. But I've only ever seen them used for tuos, and not for beengs.

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