February Tasting Notes

[Victoria]

Well most of the packages are in the mail Tuesday morning. The internationals may take another day or two till I can get to the post office. (Grrrrrr to customs forms.) ABx, yours went Saturday, Chip yours will be a bit later.

As you all know - this is a tasting of Old Bush Dan Congs sparked by my trip to Imen's shop - Tea Habitat. Imen recommended it to me and I immediately fell in love with this beautiful smooth tea, and really wanted to share it with you all.

Old Bush Dan Cong: '08 Da Wu Ye - Big Dark Leaf
Not much info on her blog about the tea, but those who want to see the dry leaf pic may click here:
http://www.teahabitat.com/store/index.p ... ucts_id=46

And here you will find Imen's Brewing advice:
http://tea-obsession.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -cong.html

As a comparison I am also offering from Hou De:
2007 Winter FengHuang WuDong Old Bush DanCong "Huang Jing"
http://www.houdeasianart.com/index.php? ... cts_id=909

I had not tasted this tea before choosing it as a 2nd tasting. If I had, I might not have included it. I am hoping some of you may favor it more than I did. The first is really so perfect, I really didn't need to offer a 2nd. While I thought the Hou De leaves were extraordinary to look at, I found the tea rather ordinary. I apologize for that!

Here are the packages before they were ready to fly!
In the not so in-focus picture is the Hou De offering in my cup.



You can see that the Hou De bags are nearly twice as large due to the fluffy leaves. I am sending 15g of each tea. Enjoy!

[Pentox]

As always such attractive packaging Vic. Too nice for the likes of us!

[TIM]

As always such attractive packaging Vic. Too nice for the likes of us!

Wow! You already have a nice tea operation going Thank so much Vic!

[Pentox]

Got my package today, can't wait to try it out!

[Pentox]

Just tried out the Tea Habitat one, OHHH MY GOD

This stuff was outstanding and amazing. I'm in a bit of shock.

[Victoria]

Just tried out the Tea Habitat one, OHHH MY GOD

This stuff was outstanding and amazing. I'm in a bit of shock.

Ummm yeah. That was pretty much my reaction.

[TIM]

Mine just arrived! Thanks again for this beautiful gift.

[CynTEAa]

Mine is here as well. I'm quite excited but have to wait till tomorrow.

Big thanks, Victoria!

[brandon]

IT IS HERE! THANKS!
Too late to drink today.

[brandon]

I was playing around with video editing this morning, something I always wanted to get into but never have. I made a useless but hopefully entertaining video of wrong fu dan cong. I'll be removing the trial banner a little later.

http://chahai.net/?p=63

By the way, I promise I have a tshirt on the entire time - the camera angle looks a little weird on my bare arm at one point

[Pentox]

Nice vid, i'd suggest putting the camera at a different angle though so you don't block it when you pour. Like if the camera were to the left of you or across.

[Salsero]

Another Padre in the making!

How can you make a video with software? I thought you needed a camcorder or a phone or a video-enabled camera. Do you hook up a camera (like the one we used for video conferencing) to the computer? Would my Photoshop CS3 do the same thing? Is the earth really round?

[brandon]

Premiere Elements captured the video from my attached web cam, removed all the extraneous parts, let me add transitions, add a soundtrack and mix it with the recorded audio. You can also add a narration track to the final cut.

[scruffmcgruff]

Got the goods! I'll try them soon.

[Victoria]

Thanks all! I enjoyed your video Brandon, thanks!
Think I'll go brew some right now, since I started my day
with coffee when I was out and about.