bottle shock?
I don't know about you guys but when I first get my pu's they often taste bad. It seems that I need to wait 3 or so days after shipment to get good flavor from them. Anyone else notice this?
Nov 3rd, '08, 17:49
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Re: bottle shock?
They suffer from Jet lag. I have to let them rest for a week before tasting. Specially shipment from Asia.puerhking wrote:I don't know about you guys but when I first get my pu's they often taste bad. It seems that I need to wait 3 or so days after shipment to get good flavor from them. Anyone else notice this?
I have a friend who insists that souls can not travel as fast as bodies, and this is why there is jetlag - you have to wait until your soul catches back up with your body to feel normal. Maybe this is true of tea as well.
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If your friend is serious, tell him he has it backwards. Having no mass, a soul would travel at light speed, while his body, being massive, would always be slower.tenuki wrote:I have a friend who insists that souls can not travel as fast as bodies, and this is why there is jetlag - you have to wait until your soul catches back up with your body to feel normal. Maybe this is true of tea as well.
My rules of thumb for preposterous suggestions are-
- be consistent
- don't "insist"
Wine has to "settle" after transport, but I can't imagine the same of tea. Perhaps a bit of airing is all that's needed.
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Tim is pretty insistent about jet lag for tea and his instincts and experience are pretty amazing. I know he has cautioned me to wait before tasting things he has mailed to me. It makes no sense to me either, but the guy knows tea.tony shlongini wrote: Wine has to "settle" after transport, but I can't imagine the same of tea.
I consider PuerhKing's OP to be independent corroboration of Tim's observations.
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You know, I really don't know. I typically don't taste my teas as soon as they come in. I have a few beengs I have had for months and haven't gotten around to tasting them!
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Re: bottle shock?
Oh hell yes, air them out. It seems to be common practice .puerhking wrote:I don't know about you guys but when I first get my pu's they often taste bad. It seems that I need to wait 3 or so days after shipment to get good flavor from them. Anyone else notice this?
I have heard this before. The account I heard was that a WH (white hunter) was on safari in Africa. One day his porters refused to get up and go. They said their bodies had been moving too fast and they needed time for their souls to catch-up.tenuki wrote:I have a friend who insists that souls can not travel as fast as bodies, and this is why there is jetlag - you have to wait until your soul catches back up with your body to feel normal. Maybe this is true of tea as well.
Ever get that feeling? I think that's what vacations are for.
Moral of the story? Give your tea a vacation.
That is an interesting phenomena. I never had this, but I have had to "get to know" my tea. By this I mean, I ll have to drink one tea for a few weeks before I really understand it. So I guess its a time delay. Its wierd, like I cant tell whether I like it or not until I have had it maybe 10-15 times.
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I had never really thought about this phenomena in concrete terms until recently, but I have turned my nose up at some teas (mostly pu'erh, but also some others) when trying them immediately, only to really enjoy them later.
We could be on to something, or we could be well on our way to providing a mountain of anecdotal evidence for a really trippy urban myth!
We could be on to something, or we could be well on our way to providing a mountain of anecdotal evidence for a really trippy urban myth!
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Now begets the question... Can you capture the spirit of the Pu and add it to another Pu? Then you could have double spirited Pu! (or it just get fat, turn yellow and ask for honey)el padre wrote:I had never really thought about this phenomena in concrete terms until recently, but I have turned my nose up at some teas (mostly pu'erh, but also some others) when trying them immediately, only to really enjoy them later.
We could be on to something, or we could be well on our way to providing a mountain of anecdotal evidence for a really trippy urban myth!
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I base all of my philosophical stances on either the superstitious beliefs of lazy porters, or John Edwards.maxman wrote:I have heard this before. The account I heard was that a WH (white hunter) was on safari in Africa. One day his porters refused to get up and go. They said their bodies had been moving too fast and they needed time for their souls to catch-up.
Ever get that feeling? I think that's what vacations are for.
Moral of the story? Give your tea a vacation.
Is it possible that it's just a matter of getting used to a tea's particular brewing requirements? Do you think anyone would be able to tell the difference between a bing that has been sitting in a closet for two months from one that just went for a ride in the car?
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I am now a believer in this. I just go t out my 2007 Jingmai cake to taste today, that I got on Tuesday. I am not impressed by it what so ever. Taste is very strange. I know I like this tea alot as I have had it before. And that made me think back to my Bai Cha Tang cake I got this summer, I tried it the day it arrived and was not too impressed only to find a month latter that it is a fine tea. So I say, when the pu comes in let it air!