Thursday TeaDay 2/11/10 Teapot Activity?

[spittingoutteeth]

Four for me. At work I use my ceramic houhin for everything, and at home I use a clay gaiwan (for pu-erhs and heavy roasted oolongs), a kyusu (for Japanese greens) and my mini yixing (for unroasted oolongs).

[msurads06]

5 for me. I use my large gaiwan for probably 80% of my brewing. I also use a smaller gaiwan, med teapot, cup infuser, and paper filters atleast once a week. As i get better with the gaiwan, i use the others less and less. Cup infuser and paper filters are only used at work, as soon as i get a gaiwan for work, plan to cut back on using them.

Starting the day with white peony.

[depravitea]

I would say that I use 3 brewing vessels mainly.
I have my trusty gaiwan, a proper English teapot, and my Chinese tea thermos that I use at work.

Sometimes I use my yixing bat teapot for some pu. Usually I brew pu erh in a gaiwan though.

[chicagopotter]

I'm rocking 1 gaiwan, 1 yixing for heavily roasted TGY, 1 kyusu, and 1 small korean teapot mainly. Smattering of other pieces not in heavy rotation. Having a competition grade TGY from the Chicago Tea Garden this morning.

[Proinsias]

Maybe four or five in a week.

Two of the gaiwans are used frequently. Little kyusu at least once a week and one or two yixing a week.

*edited as I must have been teadrunk when I posted*

[blairswhitaker]

Gong fu, Senchado, Chanoyu, racks up the tea ware, luckily for the japanese stuff I make my own! todays cup is going to start of with some pouchong then some pu-erh. ( does anyone know how I can post and image, I keep getting told that I have reached my limit on the board? if so when does my "limit" get lifted?) Live up, and drink up!!!
Blair.

[Proinsias]

The limit is the amount of pics you can upload to the board me thinks.

If you link to the pics from a photobucket, picasa, imageshack, etc account you can wallpaper the place in pictures.

Paste in the image location to your post, highlight it and click the Img tag above the post.

[cls46]

I use my teapot most of the time. But I have two cups with infusers that I really like. Assam Gold right now

[Seeker]

3.
Chawan for morning matcha.
My beloved Kikumaru kyusu for sencha.
Glass teapot for white.

Just finished my 1st infusion of Yuuki's Organic Gokujo, mmmm.

[chicagopotter]

Gong fu, Senchado, Chanoyu, racks up the tea ware, luckily for the japanese stuff I make my own!

Blaire -- you should create a topic for yourself under the TeawareArtisans forum http://www.teachat.com/viewforum.php?f=40 so we can see more of your work.

[Chip]

There are 5 on average that I use virtually every week, they all happen to be kyusu-s. So, Chawan, Gaiwan, etc did not make the list for this criteria.

Began the TD with Sencha of course. Yutaka Midori from O-Cha brewed in a Momiji Kyusu that sees a lot of action. SweeTea was front and center for the tasting while Lili and Pyrit just stopped by the TeaTable.

Next up, a tasting of Zencha Fuga LE, in another Momiji Kyusu which also sees plenty of action.

[teaisme]

7-12 ish a week

In the middle of learning how a teas taste will change with different brewing vessels/cups so I use between 4-5 different brewing vessels a day

[Proinsias]

Chip:

May I ask, roughly, what proportion of the tea you drink is Japanese green?

[Chip]

Proinsias, I would say generally 75% Japanese green or more...

[brandon]

There are 8 vessels sitting on my table right at the moment, so I went with that. I am sure it is higher.