Wouldn't those just be the small hairs found on any tea? I've often looked at my tea when I brew in my small glass tea pot and I see these everywhere, regardless of tea type, even blacks. With Silver Needles there's what looks like a million of them, as befits the name.churng wrote: a lot of little hairs
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Re: Kams Sampler
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The hairs are called trichomes. Their abundance is generally viewed as a mark of a superior tea. Mary R wrote a nice TeaMuse article about them back in October of 2007, and there's even a thread devoted to the article HERE.
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I actually swapped with Tead Off for these DC, so hopefully I can work something out of these teas. I've heard that DC is a b*tch to brew, and it's a real big challenge, but for some reason I really like that. I have this image in my mind of DC as this finicky old dragon, and I'm trying to tame it...
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Re: Kams Sampler
The full name of silver needle is actually 白毫银针 (baihao yinzhen) or white fur silver needle.sriracha wrote:Wouldn't those just be the small hairs found on any tea? I've often looked at my tea when I brew in my small glass tea pot and I see these everywhere, regardless of tea type, even blacks. With Silver Needles there's what looks like a million of them, as befits the name.churng wrote: a lot of little hairs