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  • Laocong Rougui

    This is one of the acquisitions over the past weekend -- a laocong (old bush) rougui. This is what I will say is a heavy roast. It has been aged a bit to mellow out the "fire" taste in the tea, but there's still a …

  • Infidelity

    I am not terribly faithful when it comes to drinking tea. You, the observers, can probably tell that I drink a different thing every day. For me, that's part of the fun -- to try new things, to experiment with somethin…

  • Water issues again

    Before I get on to the topic of water... some unfinished business from yesterday. This is what yesterday's tea looked like when I brewed it this morning This is what it looked like late afternoon The top cup is ye…

  • When things turn sour...

    ... you should finish it quickly. I opened up a canister of Wuyi yancha today, some stuff I bought early on last year when I first arrived in Beijing. I know I don't have much of it left, and figured it's time to drink…

  • Wuyi shuixian

    I had some Wuyi shuixian today that I got from Beijing. This is from a guy who claims to have opened the first civilian (as opposed to state-owned) tea factory in Wuyi mountains. He recently opened a store in Beijing, …

  • Aged shuixian

    This is a tea of unclear origins. I think I picked it up somewhere along the way in Beijing... It's an aged shuixian of sorts. Emphasis, I think, on the aged part. It does a few funny things. It isn't bitter -- un…

  • Year old Dahongpao

    Digging up more old tea, I found a tin of a year old dahongpao sitting around, waiting to be consumed. In fact, it might be more than a year old, but I really have no idea at this point because I don't remember where I …

  • Lazy day

    A few things happened today 1) There was a Richter scale 6.4 earthquake in Yunnan, in the heart of the puerh tea producing areas. Jinghong and Lincang, among other places, felt the shaking as well, and the epicenter wa…

  • A change of pace

    I drank a dahongpao today, to help me recover from the many maochas I've had recently. It certainly makes you feel different when drinking it. I brewed it strong today, using a full 80% of dry leaves in the gaiwan. Th…

  • Yet another tea gathering

    I went to L's place today for tea again. Quite a few people showed up throughout the afternoon, and we drank quite a few teas in the process. They were already drinking when I got there. But the first two teas we had …

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