teakkurim

13 av 5781 i just had a big tea tasting with a friend for my first time. in the past i have poured tea for friends many times, but this time, we drank four teas. damnnnnnnn. they’ve had fancy tea before but not often and it was a while ago. they usually drink green tea. they like to needle me for being one of those tea snobs who doesn’t drink green tea, which i am (i just never happen to crave it. im also currently in a puer wormhole). i had a whole thing planned out. first, try this fancy green tea i traded for from a friend the other day. then, we would try a young sheng puer blend so we could compare green to puer. next was some 2019 autumn gushu. here we were really able to notice the difference in qi between all the teas. i intended to have our last to be a young spring gushu, but i asked if they wanted another young puer or something different like an aged puer. she wanted something different so i brewed us some 2011 yiwu stored in Taiwan. very different, very nice, l

7 av 5781 i have not posted in a while. it is summer, it's been nice, i've been outside running, jumpin, living life. today's it's rainy so i thought i'd post a lil bit. what have i been drinking? well, i tried again to see if i like young sheng. nope. cant do it. autumn, gu shu, whatever. not good on my stomach and i also just like aged sheng more. i will give a shout out to this very affordable cake from KTM . it has great stamina, good mellow qi, and really holds up. im guessing it would even age pretty well. otherwise, my summer teas has been the naked yiwu from TWL. im not in love with it, but it has been nice for outside sunny days. i've still been drinking aged sheng even though i assumed i wouldnt want to in the summer. but its the PNW so we get a lot of days that start off cloud before the sun comes out. not much to say. i have more things i plan to write about in the future, but hey, look at that, the sun's coming out. gotta go. xoxo, atzei besamim