yishavu mayim v'yishpichu- a tea pouring with friend

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, light, floral, still a lil smoky, and some more grounding but also more stoney and spacey qi. 

we got a good variety of teas in and spent a lot of time talking about gong fu cha, drinking tea with others, Chinese medicine, and woowoo ideas about qi.

im very excited to do this again! (i already have a plan of what i want us to drink next)

xoxo,

atzei besamim