We cannot wait!!!!TaiPing Hou Kui wrote:I am sipping on a nice cup of warm sencha.....It actually snowed a little bit here in Williamsburg today and I think it is litearally in the 20's outside right now....very good night for a warm cup! It feels like time is going by so slowly waiting from my order from artisticnippon.com in Japan....I have a new 5oz kyusu coming along with a new yunomi and 3 teas picked out for me by the owner.....a pinnacle grade sencha, a karigane, and some awacha. I will post pics as soon as I get them!-Nick (TaiPing)
Nov 19th, '08, 00:43
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Well it was 84 degrees here today, finally cooling off! After browsing around tonight, I just bought a new tea tray for work, and I actually made the most sensible choice.TaiPing Hou Kui wrote:I am sipping on a nice cup of warm sencha.....It actually snowed a little bit here in Williamsburg today and I think it is litearally in the 20's outside right now....very good night for a warm cup! It feels like time is going by so slowly waiting from my order from artisticnippon.com in Japan....I have a new 5oz kyusu coming along with a new yunomi and 3 teas picked out for me by the owner.....a pinnacle grade sencha, a karigane, and some awacha. I will post pics as soon as I get them!
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Nov 19th, '08, 04:22
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I shall grind your bones to splinters 'n flakes and steep them for four minutes in 203 degree water for that, Vulture. Hopefully your marrow is strong enough to give me a good stock to sample and likely enjoy. Any-WAYS!
To date I've had mixed experiences with teas and most of them either bland or common brews. Adagio, being my current starting places and sampling vendor, is assisting in expanding the pallet but I'm finding they tend to have really good common teas, poor infusions/flavors, and very hit or miss specialty or uncommon teas. One example would be the English Breakfast- very good, affordable by volume, and much more flavorful than the eight varieties I've tried over the years. The Darjeeling #22 also is a very good, common flavor that I'll be picking up again later. Some counters to this is that I was not fond of the Silver Needle as it came out in all five differing steeps to taste like a decent white with a strong flavor of green beans. Not that I'm against that vegetable, I just prefer the vegetable over drinking it and it has a much more satisfying addition to the actual biting and crisp crunch when eaten raw. The infusions I've yet to have anywhere near as enjoyable as I've wanted as most steeps either become bitter or too weak in flavor for me to enjoy fully. This specifically extends to the Ginger mix as I've been a long-time fan of ginger tea and it was a harsh disappointment when my first boiling cup ended with a bitter mess that destroyed the flavor I sought. I do enjoy most of the Herbals and will likely be sampling different Adagio teas for taste development and to see what the tea could taste like so all is not terrible. Then again, I believe I just loosely critiqued all my experiences with Adagio so far and deviated from the original aim of this line of thought.
To polish this thought process off I do not just use one vendor as I cross sample, resample, and slowly consider which tea and supplier provides me with the best, affordable, and/or acceptable tea that I would want rather than having to settle for something I'd rather not have. Afterall, as much as Adagio's Earl Grey Bravo tastes like a good Earl Grey it still does not meet my standards compared to Twinings' version which I have more often than most other black teas. To answer the query, my answer is Other as my supplier all benefit initially for tasting but usually continue to gain my business depending upon what they sell that I like and can afford. Still makes me cringe at Harney and Sons' prices being a poor college student.
In my cup: Earl Grey Bravo, down to just one more sample batch before the sampler tin is empty. Got 500g of Twinings' loose Earl Grey in the mail already to replace it and my bags if we're lucky.
I shall grind your bones to splinters 'n flakes and steep them for four minutes in 203 degree water for that, Vulture. Hopefully your marrow is strong enough to give me a good stock to sample and likely enjoy. Any-WAYS!
To date I've had mixed experiences with teas and most of them either bland or common brews. Adagio, being my current starting places and sampling vendor, is assisting in expanding the pallet but I'm finding they tend to have really good common teas, poor infusions/flavors, and very hit or miss specialty or uncommon teas. One example would be the English Breakfast- very good, affordable by volume, and much more flavorful than the eight varieties I've tried over the years. The Darjeeling #22 also is a very good, common flavor that I'll be picking up again later. Some counters to this is that I was not fond of the Silver Needle as it came out in all five differing steeps to taste like a decent white with a strong flavor of green beans. Not that I'm against that vegetable, I just prefer the vegetable over drinking it and it has a much more satisfying addition to the actual biting and crisp crunch when eaten raw. The infusions I've yet to have anywhere near as enjoyable as I've wanted as most steeps either become bitter or too weak in flavor for me to enjoy fully. This specifically extends to the Ginger mix as I've been a long-time fan of ginger tea and it was a harsh disappointment when my first boiling cup ended with a bitter mess that destroyed the flavor I sought. I do enjoy most of the Herbals and will likely be sampling different Adagio teas for taste development and to see what the tea could taste like so all is not terrible. Then again, I believe I just loosely critiqued all my experiences with Adagio so far and deviated from the original aim of this line of thought.
To polish this thought process off I do not just use one vendor as I cross sample, resample, and slowly consider which tea and supplier provides me with the best, affordable, and/or acceptable tea that I would want rather than having to settle for something I'd rather not have. Afterall, as much as Adagio's Earl Grey Bravo tastes like a good Earl Grey it still does not meet my standards compared to Twinings' version which I have more often than most other black teas. To answer the query, my answer is Other as my supplier all benefit initially for tasting but usually continue to gain my business depending upon what they sell that I like and can afford. Still makes me cringe at Harney and Sons' prices being a poor college student.
In my cup: Earl Grey Bravo, down to just one more sample batch before the sampler tin is empty. Got 500g of Twinings' loose Earl Grey in the mail already to replace it and my bags if we're lucky.
Hmmm, at least we know the "blood of the innocent" drink was neither your blood nor Vulture's bloodRakuras wrote:...
I shall grind your bones to splinters 'n flakes and steep them for four minutes in 203 degree water for that, Vulture. Hopefully your marrow is strong enough to give me a good stock to sample and likely enjoy. Any-WAYS!
