Saturday TeaRoom 5/23/09 More and/or more different TEA?

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Today's TeaRoom poll and discussion topic. This holiday weekend, will you drink more and/or more different tea than you normally would? (Please share your TeaPlans)

Definitely more and more different
7
18%
Hopefully more and/or different
10
26%
Maybe more
3
8%
Likely less and/or less
4
10%
Definitely less and less
2
5%
What ever will be ... will be
13
33%
 
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by silvermage2000 » May 23rd, '09, 19:00

I drink the same amount of tea. I drank a cup of twinings vanilla black today.
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by iannon » May 23rd, '09, 19:35

Sal..really like your cup and the tray too..sweet
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by Salsero » May 23rd, '09, 19:45

I am being blown away here by a Makaibari Green Delight that I got as part of a set of 12 one-ounce samples of first flush Darjeeling from Lochan tea. The first flushes have not thrilled me, but this green is quite nice, nothing like the Chinese and Japanese greens that I have had: Light (as you might expect), surprisingly good viscosity, peppery, minty. There's a lot going on in this stuff and it has a great aftertaste!

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by Smells_Familiar » May 23rd, '09, 22:50

no tea for me this weekend. :cry: i'm fasting for another four days which means no caffeine. i've got a milan dancong from houde in my heart tonight.
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by Katrina » May 23rd, '09, 23:17

More tea for me today. Hooray!

I broke out a Winter Oolong that has been waiting for me and I had the gaiwan busy all day. My last brew was nearly colorless. I put those leaves through their paces.

Hope everyone enjoyed day one of the long weekend.
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by leiche » May 24th, '09, 00:03

Probably less tea than usual for me. I'll try my best to get in what I can, though.

Cheap fix for my lack of a fair cup: an exceedingly plain ceramic creamer. Boring yet functional. At least I can use my smaller cups now!
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by entropyembrace » May 24th, '09, 02:17

I've been drinking Formosa gunpowder green today. I like the light toastyness of it...kinda like houjicha but much lighter.
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by Proinsias » May 24th, '09, 12:16

Salsero wrote:I am being blown away here by a Makaibari Green Delight that I got as part of a set of 12 one-ounce samples of first flush Darjeeling from Lochan tea. The first flushes have not thrilled me, but this green is quite nice, nothing like the Chinese and Japanese greens that I have had: Light (as you might expect), surprisingly good viscosity, peppery, minty. There's a lot going on in this stuff and it has a great aftertaste!

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Hooray, I've not tried this yet but I seem to have ended up with two packs of this instead of one.

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by Victoria » May 24th, '09, 13:02

Salsero wrote:I am being blown away here by a Makaibari Green Delight that I got as part of a set of 12 one-ounce samples of first flush Darjeeling from Lochan tea. The first flushes have not thrilled me, but this green is quite nice, nothing like the Chinese and Japanese greens that I have had: Light (as you might expect), surprisingly good viscosity, peppery, minty. There's a lot going on in this stuff and it has a great aftertaste!

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Sal that sounds really great. I bought so much from Lochan last year that was just very "average", that I really wasn't interested in repeating that experience. Especially in a year that Darjeelings are not at their prime. I had not seen their sampler till you mentioned it. Wish I had seen it earlier, I might have gone for it. Still their shipping is one of the highest around.
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