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Month: December 2017

2010 Menghai Tea Factory 8592

December 25, 2017 by Tristan Jordan 2 Comments

Background Recently my home town has had multiple days of snow, sleet, and freezing rain. This has led me towards drinking a larger amount of ripe pu’er teas. The dark, rich, and earthy qualities of ripe pu’er help offset the chill in the air. For this reason I planned ahead and have been using this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: Menghai Tea Factory, pu'er tea, shu pu'er, YS

Comparative Tasting

December 18, 2017 by Tristan Jordan Leave a Comment

Background Normally when I drink tea I will enjoy only one kind of tea at a time, so that I can try to fully taste and understand it from start to finish. Although the roughly 150 ml teapots that I use for brewing gongfu tea are not large by Western standards, they are still large … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: pu'er tea, sheng pu'er, YS

2016 Xin Zhai Sheng Pu’er

December 11, 2017 by Tristan Jordan 3 Comments

Background One of the things I love is sharing tea with people. Although drinking tea by yourself can be a great meditation, there is also something special about coming together around tea. Whatever type of tea one chooses to drink, or the mode of preparation they use to brew I’ve noticed that it’s common for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: EoT, pu'er tea, sheng pu'er

Routine and Spontaneity in Tea Drinking

December 4, 2017 by Tristan Jordan Leave a Comment

Routine and Spontaneity in Tea Drinking One of my hobbies other than drinking tea is practicing Tai Ji Quan (太极拳), a form of Chinese martial art. I’ve only been playing with it for a few years, but one thing becomes clear very quickly is that it is a large world of different practices with many … [Read more…]

Posted in: Musings, Teas Tagged: thoughts on tea, wulong tea, YS

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