Tuesday TeaDay 2/23/10 TeaObsession or TeaCompulsion?

[depravitea]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it.
I should have mentioned that it's totally FREE, and there are different file types to choose from.
If you are an ebook nerd/fan like I am you might prefer the epub format for your reader. If you like reading on your computer, you might choose the PDF file.

Thanks Mrs. Chip for requesting a few more details on downloading.
I was just excited to tell everyone, left a few things out lol

[brad4419]

Congrats Depravitea!

Absolutly yes! I am obsessed with the tealeaf. I like to smell it before and after brewing, during infusions and then after I like to unfurl the leaf and look at them It still fascinates me.

[Chip]

I add my congratulations DepraviTea! I hope bigger and better things become of it!

Seems TCers are not obsessed about the topic today. But I am for sure obsessed and compulsive about tea! Many aspects including the aroma as previously mentioned and this is likely near the top of the obsession. Since I enjoy brewing as much as I do drinking, and since I want to make the best cuppa each time ... this is my top obsession and compulsion about tea.

Other items such as selecting the right tea from purchase to what am I drinking next, the taste, the whole experience ... yeah, guess that sums it up. The whole tea experience ... plus I seem to be obsessed discussing it on TeaChat.

Next up today after the morning sencha, more sencha.

Really getting low on Sencha and am trying to hold out til Shincha if possible. As a result, I am digging deeper into the tea reserves. Today, 2005 Mengai green Pu-erh. This has a surprising aroma, slightly camphor and sweet. Quite nice.

[artmom]

Having a cup of peppermint tea -- tummy wobbles. It's soothing.

[debunix]

Presently obsessed with exploring the whole class of green teas, chinese, japanese, korean, etc--since I've finally made some breakthroughs in controlling the bitterness that kept me away from virtually all but the most heavily disguised jasmine versions. All but dreaming about senchas and long jing and mao fengs these days.

Started the day with some sencha, then on to an afternoon thermos of jasmine (now cut about 1:2 with some silver needles to drop the flowery perfume to a tolerable level), and finishing with a few infusions of fine Imperial Shi Feng Long Jing from Jing Tea.

[Chip]

Presently obsessed with exploring the whole class of green teas, chinese, japanese, korean, etc--since I've finally made some breakthroughs in controlling the bitterness that kept me away from virtually all but the most heavily disguised jasmine versions. All but dreaming about senchas and long jing and mao fengs these days.

Yay! Glad to hear about your green progress!!!

Sipping SLT, the remains of the day ... 2 different sencha 6-7 steeps and Pu 5-6 steeps.

[bsteele]

I don't think so... perhaps if I had someone make some tea for me in front of me those obsessions/compulsions would be revealed?

Yunnan Gold at the moment.