Wakoucha: Japanese Black Tea from Yunomi
This tea comes in small 2g sachets. Directions are to steep 4 minutes at 90C (194F) in one cup. Hard to say if one cup is 8oz, rather doubtful., probably less is better. I used 208F slightly hotter...
View ArticleChakouan Imari Black Tea from Yunomi
I got a sample teabag of this with an order. Used my regular teabag cup, but the teabag has only 2g of tea, less than a usual teabag so admittedly I may have steeped in too much water. The tea has a...
View Article2015 Sheng – 300 Year Tree from Verdant Tea
This is supposedly a very late autumn tea, picked November 6, 2015. Typical northern profile, floral but with decent bitterness. The tea is very young with thin stems, can't say these trees or bushes...
View Article2013 Nepal Jun Chiyabari Second Flush Himalayan Imperial Black from...
Actually, I got a sample of the 2015 version but since there isn't much call for this, I will just add a note to this entry. Again I find myself surprised at a tea from Klasek Tea. I normally order...
View Article2014 MGH 1401 Fengqing Ripe Tea Brick 250g from PuerhShop.com
I got a small sample of this with another order and decided to try it. This is a brick tea with low grade leaf, and not a ripe as it says in the title. In fact, if you read the description it says made...
View Article2015 Chawangpu Mengsong Old Tree Raw from Chawangshop
Catching up on my tea notes and cupboard. Purchased this cake very fresh, love the price tag at $22 for a 200g cake. A surprisingly bitter tea, I have some Mengsong Gushu that I used to make a batch of...
View Article2015 Chawangpu Hekai Gushu Raw from Chawangshop
Catching up on my cupboard and notes. I can't believe I've drunk up nearly half this cake so far this summer. But it has been my go-to daily drinker for a couple of months now. This cake is packed full...
View Article2015 Bosch from White2Tea
8 grams in 100-125ml, the higher amount of liquid as the leaves expanded. Brewed on the boil for one rinse, then at 208F for the duration. Tea opens bitter and astringent with some char in the gaiwan,...
View Article2013 Yunnan Sourcing "Jing Gu" Old Arbor Raw from Yunnan Sourcing
This is a very tasty puerh tea made from the Camellia Taliensis varietal in Simao. The leaves are light and silvery and produce a peony flavored puerh tea with mild bitterness. I'm impressed with how...
View Article2015 Last Thoughts from White2Tea
This is a true old arbor gushu puerh tea with a predominantly Yiwu floral flavor and a Menghai base flavor. Leaves and stems are large and thick and this tea steeps fifteen times or more. I used 5...
View Article2015 Poundcake from White2Tea
I steeped a 99g weight gourd of this tea because I am unable to chip off any of this highly compressed tuo. I wasn't just doing it to be funny, this is how I had to access the tea. And sometimes I eat...
View ArticleCeylon Star from The Tea Smith
Received a sample of this tea with a purchase and just noticed it in my pile. Brewed two teaspoons in about 100 ml gong fu in a kyusu pot for 30 second steeps. I didn't notice any special flavors to...
View ArticleLapsang Souchong from The Tea Smith
I ordered two ounces of this tea for a crazy low price of $3.55, along with an order of Lin's Teaware. The Teasmith's Lin's collection is mostly half price right now, I find the cups amazing with their...
View ArticleKabuki from American Tea Room
I wish I had read the Steepster reviews before buying this. The reviewers mention the sugar syrup or sugar whatever added to the tea. This isn't mentioned on the website description at all. It just...
View ArticleDarjeeling Goomtee FF 2015 EXN-06 Exotic from Klasek Tea
I got a generous sample of this tea from klasektea.com with the purchase of teaware. I'm not seeing the tea on the website as of this writing, but it is early May and 2015 teas are just arriving in...
View Article2012 Chawangshop Yiwu Gu Shu Da Ye Zi Xiao Bing Cha 200g from Chawangshop
This is the huang pian cake in the 2012 Chawangshop Yiwu line of cakes. I purchased it in 2014 for $12, it is now $14 in 2015. Read the vendor description carefully so you know what you are getting...
View Article2011 Spring Norbu White Buds - 250 g Sheng Pu-Erh Tea Cake from Norbu Tea
Really? I filled up my gaiwan for this...I can smell what I call "mall puerh" a mile away, that incense-y store flavor you can find in a million cakes on EBay and Taobao. This is just sad, leathery old...
View Article2015 Sheng Pu'erh - Spring from Misty Peak Teas
I ordered a 100g cake of this to go with the 2013 Spring and 2014 Autumn I already own. I also am not quite believing this is really Spring pick from Jan or Feb. The cake is rather brown and loosely...
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