Official what GREEN are you currently drinking?

[Rui]

Top quality Longjing (Dragonwell) received yesterday directly from the tea farmer (a friend of mine) in China. Oh my goodness but this is a very aromatic and yummy green tea.

[jayinhk]

Top quality Longjing (Dragonwell) received yesterday directly from the tea farmer (a friend of mine) in China. Oh my goodness but this is a very aromatic and yummy green tea.

Now that sounds delicious!

[Rui]

Top quality Longjing (Dragonwell) received yesterday directly from the tea farmer (a friend of mine) in China. Oh my goodness but this is a very aromatic and yummy green tea.

Now that sounds delicious!

Just sipped a litre of it. Lovely smooth and very aromatic tea. Just what the doctor ordered.

[Proinsias]

I've been on a green tea binge over the last week or so. Been really enjoying the genmaicha with matcha from o-cha, cheap & very cheerful.

[jayinhk]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

[debunix]

Two series of infusions of Sajak, handmade Korean green tea by Yi Ho Yeong from a Morning Crane Tea group buy. Delicate, vegetal, forgiving. Brewing higher temps, more dilute, rapid fire infusions in a small glazed gaiwan by Shawn McGuire. Mmm.

[Rui]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

[jayinhk]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Sounds like the longjing has you in a green tea kind of mood!

[Rui]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Sounds like the longjing has you in a green tea kind of mood!

Just waiting for the pu'er cakes to arrive from China and for the new 2016 ones to come out. I need to keep drinking tea.

[jayinhk]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Sounds like the longjing has you in a green tea kind of mood!

Just waiting for the pu'er cakes to arrive from China and for the new 2016 ones to come out. I need to keep drinking tea.

Some 2016 cakes are already out, but since I'm going to Kunming I'm going to wait until then to buy new cakes!

[Frisbeehead]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Which sencha did you order from O-Cha? I'm going to preorder shincha from them too, and I'm debating on which to get. It's a small list actually so it not too difficult to decide.

[jayinhk]

Big porcelain pot of Shan Tuyet, which is basically pu erh maocha from Northern Vietnam (close to Yunnan). Bitter, but much more palatable in a big pot and brewed cooler. Painful when brewed gongfu style because of the bitterness, but seriously intensely floral, like fresh jasmine buds. Smoky with distinct young sheng pu erh-like flavor and hui gan. Tastes like good gushu, but I suspect the trees this stuff came from have been fertilized and overharvested. No cha qi and the bitterness can indicate fertilizer use. Still, it's great tea for the money; 100g for $3 or so.

This stuff has a lot of caffeine though. I'm definitely awake

[Rui]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Which sencha did you order from O-Cha? I'm going to preorder shincha from them too, and I'm debating on which to get. It's a small list actually so it not too difficult to decide.

Actually I have ordered two of them:
Uji Asamushi Shincha Kirameki
Kagoshima Shincha Sae Midori

In Autumn last year I ordered also from O-Cha:
Uji Asamushi Sencha "Ujibashi San no Ma"
Yame Gyokuro

[Rui]

Cheaper 'gyokuro' I bought at an Aeon store in Okinawa last spring. It's been stored in a tea caddy since. I haven't been drinking much Japanese green recently. Brewing it like sencha, but used too much tea--bitter and strong. I was buzzing off the caffeine! I'll make sure the next infusion is a flash brew.

This morning I have pre-ordered shincha from O-Cha. Looking forward to getting it.

Sounds like the longjing has you in a green tea kind of mood!

Just waiting for the pu'er cakes to arrive from China and for the new 2016 ones to come out. I need to keep drinking tea.

Some 2016 cakes are already out, but since I'm going to Kunming I'm going to wait until then to buy new cakes!

Yes I got a couple of Year of the Monkey tea cakes already but I'll be waiting for YS and others to see what they are coming out with.

[NateHevens]

It's still cold here (I know I live in New York, but it's frickin' April; we really need to do something about this climate change), but I'm cold-brewing some Jade Snail (Adagio's Jade Snail, in fact). I did this last summer, too. Makes a delicious cold brew.