$5.00 doesn't sound like much, but when they are only 50 grams, that makes them pretty expensive puerh.shogun89 wrote:They do look good, but I cant see paying that price for them. . .
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Salsero wrote:$5.00 doesn't sound like much, but when they are only 50 grams, that makes them pretty expensive puerh.shogun89 wrote:They do look good, but I cant see paying that price for them. . .
Yeah when I bought them I didn't fully realize that they were so small, but I look at is as I like it just as much as I like some of my oolongs, and 5 dollars for 50 grams is a really good deal on some of those oolongs.
At least thats how I view it.
in terms of the Menghai that is 3 cents a session I assume you are talking about : 2006 Menghai Yue Chen Yue Xiang Pu-erh Tea Brickshogun89 wrote:Well its still only about $0.60 per session. So it is cheap when you think of it that way but expensive when you can get a Menghai session for like $0.03 per session.
Which is cooked, not even to mention that its not Menghai Tea Factory, but rather just produced in the menghai area.
Personally I've never trusted comparing sheng prices to shu prices, due to different processing methods, just like you shouldn't compare black tea prices to white tea prices. I honestly do view sheng and shu as two separate types of teas. That and the fact that I've heard many people say there is a very steep fall off in flavor of shu's after a certain number of brews which does not occur in sheng.
So to search for a tea to compare it against, to select a say menghai area, and a brick that is also a sheng. lets select 2006 Menghai Dayeh Pu-erh Tea Brick
now assuming you are using 5 grams a time the Douji comes out to 50 cents a session, whereas the 2006 Menghai Dayeh comes out to 14 cents a session. Though that difference can easily be explained by the extra production costs of making many smaller bricks, and packaging them. And the fact that Douji seems to have a better rep than both of those other tea factories. This can be seen in searching for each of the different bricks, there are many more favorable reviews for the douji products then there are for the Menghai Dayeh.
As they say the proof is in the pudding.
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What? You only get five cups per session out of the 8582?shogun89 wrote:No I was not referring to that brick. I am referring to a regular Dayi product such as the 8582. I actually made the mistake of putting down cup price, it is really $.15 per session. My bad. Still cheap though.
I get at least ten.
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5 is the min I always do so thats how I calc it, That way I pay at most $.15 per session.tony shlongini wrote:What? You only get five cups per session out of the 8582?shogun89 wrote:No I was not referring to that brick. I am referring to a regular Dayi product such as the 8582. I actually made the mistake of putting down cup price, it is really $.15 per session. My bad. Still cheap though.
I get at least ten.
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Any way you look at it, it's cheap as can be.shogun89 wrote:5 is the min I always do so thats how I calc it, That way I pay at most $.15 per session.tony shlongini wrote:What? You only get five cups per session out of the 8582?shogun89 wrote:No I was not referring to that brick. I am referring to a regular Dayi product such as the 8582. I actually made the mistake of putting down cup price, it is really $.15 per session. My bad. Still cheap though.
I get at least ten.
I find that the number of sessions I yield falls within these extreme bounds-
100g tuo: 8-12
250g brick: 20-30
357g bing: 30-40
Some products contain a higher percentage of unusable material.
