Monday TeaDay 11/15/10 Longhorn or greenhorn?

[Chip]

It is TeaDay! I hope it will be a special TeaDay for everyone. Please stop in and share what is in your cup throughout the day.

This past weekend we discussed ... gardening. You can still vote and discuss the weekends topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. How long were you a tea drinker before finding TeaChat? Also share what brought you to TeaChat!

I am looking forward to sharing this Teaday with everyone! Bottoms up!

[Chip]

Happy 31st Birthday auhckw!

[debunix]

25+ years of tea drinking before I found this place, but most of that time it was pretty well confined to just a few teas, and not often at that.

Happy Birthday indeed!

And finishing the tea day with a bit of Dan Cong--2009 Kan Tou or Stone Wall Edge from Tea Habitat, after a nice sencha start, and some oolong middle.

[auhckw]

Happy 31st Birthday auhckw!

Thanks

I started serious tea about the same time I found TeaChat (mid this year).
Found TeaChat while googling for tea info

[artmom]

Tea drinker for 64 or 65 years before finding TeaChat. Found TeaChat while Googling for Tea info. I can't remember exactly what I was Googling for - Tea or Teaware.

It certainly has been interesting and fun.

Happy Birthday, auhckw!

[Jasmin]

I guess since I was a little child. My mother wasn't a teaware maniac or always looking for the best teas, but we drank tea a lot. Several times a day.
And going into teashops with her and smelling all that wonderful tea and trying out new ones, are some of my better childhood memories.

[tortoise]

I was Foghorn Leghorn, actually. Well, no. I had been drinking tea for a little more than 10 years. Decent tea, not excellent tea. I had experienced good tea in Japan about that time but wasn't mail ordering it. Mostly black teas and occasionally oolong. I guess I got into oolong consistently about 5 to 7 years ago, but again, it was the rishi or harney and sons ilk. Some of which really isn't horrible at all. Then I discovered Floating Leaves in Seattle which led me on a broader search. I believe it was a search for tokoname kyusu that delivered a search result from TC. There was so much eye-candy I had to join right away. Now, all my other interests and hobbies are subservient to TEA.

It's a sad day here because I just quaffed down the last of my miyabi. Now I am sencha-poor and that is no place to be.

[TwoPynts]

I've been drinking tea for 25+ years before finding tea chat, but I only became a serious tea drinker (and not so serious compared to some here) AFTER finding tea chat. The Tea Muse introduced me to pu-erh and after that I found the chat, and it have been tea crazy ever since. So if you want to go by serious tea drinking, it has been less than a year.


Oh, and auhckw ... ♫♪ *** ☺HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ☺ *** ♪♫

Sipping some Wu Ling Oolong.

[brad4419]

Happy Birthday auhckw!

I was a total loose leaf greenhorn. The day I bought my first bag of loose leaf tea(earl grey cream I believe) was the day I joined teachat. I bought the stuff and realized that I had no idea how to brew it. In my search for brewing suggestions, I found and joined teachat.

After that tea became a passion.

[laura99]

Another greenhorn here! I discovered TeaChat 2-3 months into my loose leaf tea journey. I think I was searching for info on japanese tea cups (right place to be for that ). I did not even realize for a while that it was associated with Adagio, which was also a good find.

I did drink tea prior to this. Mostly Tazo and RofT for a few years, but its not something I ever even thought to search on the internet for.

Happy Birthday to auhckw!

[geeber1]

I drank teabag tea for years, then decided to try loose-leaf. I ordered tea from Adagio but didn't discover TeaChat until a few months later.

Mao Feng Noir from Tao of Tea in my cup this morning.

[msurads06]

I had been occasionally drinking teabag tea for a year or so but i voted less than one year I had only been drinking "real" tea for a month or so when i found teachat. I was doing an internet search probably for yixing when i found this site, i lurked for a few days/ a week then i had a question i wanted answered so i joined.

I am still less than one year drinking "real" tea, but i have come a long way from the little metal tea ball i started out with.

[JBaymore]

Well more than 25 years prior.

best,

..............john

[bsteele]

Man, bunch of old folks roaming these parts.

*ducks*



TeaNeophyte indeed. Found my way by Google.

And actually, speaking of age differences here... I freakin love it. I think it's awesome that we have such a diverse group of tea drinkers. Such a wealth if knowledge.

[JRS22]

I was a greenhorn - I came to fine tea without even passing through the teabag stage. A friend took me to Harney's Tasting Room in Millerton, NY, where tasted a number of teas and bought 2 - a flavored green and a flavored black. Back home they didn't taste as good - I was using a teaball and too-hot water whereas Harney's used a large strainer and the right temperature water.

Two months later I was sick with a major respiratory ailment. The first day I couldn't do more than drink tea. By the second day I was on the internet looking for a better way to brew tea. I found Adagio, which is just down the road from me, and ordered an Ingenuitea. It was here the next day, and my Harney's tea tasted much better. So I went back online and ordered a Utilitea and some samples. They arrived the next day. Then I discovered Tea Chat and here I am 3 years later, opening up the latest OTTI.

In my gaiwan this morning - tai ping hou kui.