Thursday TeaDay 1/14/10 Geeber Versus Greenwood? :)

[Chip]

Tried my Dragon Well green tea sample this evening....I'll keep trying to see if I like it any better.

It took me a dozen or more brewings to finally get a sweet, thick, vegetal brew of dragon well without a lot of bitterness. For me, it took about 3 grams of leaves in an 80mL gaiwan, water at 175 degrees, infusion times 30", 10", 30".

Of course, I forgot a last infusion this evening for about 5 minutes, and it was undrinkably bitter.

Still, three times in a row it was exquisite, enough that I may even buy more someday.

Dragon Well or Long Jing is purported to be the most popular tea in China and even the planet. It should be an easy brewer generally but there are a lot of so called fakes out there as well, or just poor quality examples. Long Jing was certainly my first great green tea.

Don't give up on it.

TD continued with a tasting of Yame Matcha from Zencha w/ DW served up in a gift Chawan from Cory Lum! Currently, Mug/Genmai home roast ... great TD. Hmmm, 3 different Yame teas today, is this a new trend?

[brad4419]

Im In the middle on this one. Honestly I feel like If I had a larger tea budget I would have many more hagi teacups but would only use a few of my favorites most of the time, not so much of a different cup everyday. Speaking of hagi I just received a package from artisticnippon today with a new sea cucumber glaze chawan/teabowl which will mostly be used as a large teacup and a porcelain yunomi.

kennilworth today

[edkrueger]

I'd go with Greenwood if I had more money. I only have about 10 Yunomi that I consider worthy.