Good mold / bad mold?

[teaskeptic]

This tea has been sitting in a sealed package for about a year. It's from the 80's, from a trusted source. I will probably just brew it up anyways, but this is the first time I've actually seen this on one of my teas. Thoughts?

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[Tead Off]

Change your storage conditions.

[mr mopu]

Can you elaborate on the storage conditions you were using when this happened?

[teaskeptic]

I had 10 grams of the tea in a sealed plastic wrapper (sealed, but not vacuum sealed). This wrapper was stored in a tin can. The tin can was sitting on my shelf for a year. The conditions in my apartment are very, very dry. I was not trying to age the tea more, I was just waiting for the right moment to drink it.

[tst]

I'd air that sucker out for a while ... a long while

[William]

I had 10 grams of the tea in a sealed plastic wrapper (sealed, but not vacuum sealed). This wrapper was stored in a tin can. The tin can was sitting on my shelf for a year. The conditions in my apartment are very, very dry. I was not trying to age the tea more, I was just waiting for the right moment to drink it.

Maybe I am wrong, but I think that when you received this sample, was in rather wet conditions, and the absence of air exchange caused all this.

[miig]

I certainly wouldn't drink it! Please, dear expercts, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say that white, furry mold is certainly bad mold.

[mr mopu]

I certainly wouldn't drink it! Please, dear expercts, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say that white, furry mold is certainly bad mold.

+1 on the white furry mold statement!

[Catfur]

Brush it off, drink it, if it's nasty, toss it.

It's a tiny bit of fuzzy mold, not BTX or Plutonium.

[kyarazen]

if one's game to try, i might just clean off the mold and bake it before brewing

[chrl42]

bad mold..IMO.

[Teaism]

bad mold..IMO.

+1

[jayinhk]

Looks good...for the compost heap.

[yalokinh]

Boiling water should kill of any organisms, but you might see colors and have bad trip. who knows

[Davcha]

Well, have buyed a traditional stored 2001 Commissioned CNNP 8582 (Hong-Kong, Taiwan) sample. After cca 20 days - the "white frost" (mycelium) appears. I drunk cca 30 ml - the effect: drunkenness. The first tasting was without "frost" and without drunkenness. Well, psychotropic effects of some fungi are well known. The question is - are there any "bad" mokotoxins...?