Yum!
Exceptionally good, quadruple roasted mountain oolong.
Have you had any exceptional tea today?
[email protected] would welcome new posters aswell. The community has grown, but I'm not seeing a lot of activity there, sadly.
In desperate need of caffeine I whipped out the Shrimp Pu-Erh.
What are you brewing today?
I'd say older than 3yrs. And sheng as opposed to Shu (ripe). The former is pressed and left to age, and the latter is cooked, speeding up the fermentation process, thus mimicking aging.
The two have completely different characteristics and taste differently. I'd say Shu is more forgiving in terms of steeping, but on the other hand is a lot heavier in taste, with more umami (fishy flavor)
I'd say age and smell. If it smells too fishy it's shit. When it comes to sheng (raw) pu-ehrs aim for older ones. Young shengs tend to be very bitter.
For me it's three kinds of oolongs, two pu-erhs, a white cake, and a couple of greens.
What's yours?
Thanks! I have an idea how this could work and will start to work on this later this week, i hope:)
Chemically theanine, taurine and caffeine are the same thing.
Kicking the day off with some Sheng Pu-Erh. What's your today's steep?
An empty stomach makes it even worse imho
There is a term used mainly for Pu-Erh teas - being tea drunk. That describes literal caffeine high invoked by ingesting a lot of caffeine relatively quickly.
Speaking from experience - the worst that had happened for me was not being able to sleep the night after drinking a lot of strong gong-fu brewed Pu-Erh teas.
That sounds cool!
A bit lighter in taste this time. Still a lovely steep of a good quality oolong.
What's the last oolong your tried? Or are you planning on trying one someday?
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I'm thinking about creating feeds and then displaying updates in form of a notification :) Thanks for the link!