Yixing and Biluochun

[beachape]

I've heard it mentioned before that some people use yixing pots for biluochun (green tea). I was wondering if anyone has tried this. If not hypotheses are welcome.

What clay do you think would work best for this?
Do you gongfu brew? Or is it more suitable for a bigger pot?

I have a feeling glass brewing will be preferred, but I am curious nonetheless.

[Chip]

Glass or porcelain ... preferring neutral to clay. I would say I semi gong fu brew this tea.

Tangent ... I read on TeaSpring's site how some Chinese will reverse the norm for this tea. Instead of pouring hot water over the leaf, they drop the leaf into the hot water ... I have done it this way with seemingly superior results ever since

[beachape]

I would think the same thing...that something neutral would be best. I was taught to use glass for greens, and for biluochun to add the tea to water (because it looks pretty like snow). Certainly wouldn't get that with yixing.

Curious though if anyone has tried it, or knows someone who does it.

[Chip]

Funny, I was editing that to my post when you were posting apparently ... regarding adding the tea to the water.

[beachape]

Ha, same tea wavelength.

[debunix]

When I try any tea at Wing Hop Fung, they always use a yixing to brew it. Green, white, oolong, puerh.

[chrl42]

I thought they could be Long Jing, Tai Ping Hou Kou, Mao Feng but Bi Luo Chun! It would be fun to see those underaged leaves suffered from the rushing of heat

Personally I would think Zhuni might fit green tea and NEVER close the lid while brewing..

[debunix]

If the pot and water start out cool enough, what would be the harm of using a closed yixing to brew a white tea? That in 'rounding off' the flavors, it might strip out too much?

[beachape]

I think the idea with biluochun being used is that it is one of the more fragrant green teas. Perhaps similar to using yixing for tieguanyin, the pot could absorb some of the floral/fruit fragrance. One place where I saw biluochun mentioned was on a number of taobao websites for yixing pots. Each pot had the suggestion something like..."use for pu er, wu long, yan cha, and bi luo chun"

However, I imagine it would get cooked...
I have two little yixing pots that I'm considering reassigning. Perhaps I'll try one out with biluochun once i get my 2010 tea. I have a duanni and a zhuni pot that I could reassign. Probably an experiment destined to fail.

[chrl42]

"use for pu er, wu long, yan cha, and bi luo chun"

I second that as both Bi Luo Chun and Yixing are from Jiangsu province, so BLC is green tea Jiangsu people most commonly drink

[beachape]

Well that just makes sense.