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...

4 tamuz 5781 my friends came over last night and one of them is into tea and recently got some stuff from Enthea in PDX (my old roommate, who got me into gong fu cha, is friends with the owner) so we did a trade. i got a lil bit of some green tea and a dan cong. i don’t normally drink green tea but i wanted to use it as a comparison for a future tea sesh i want to do with another friend who likes green. in exchange i gave some 07 peacock yiwu blend form puerhjunky, a 2011 yiwu stored in Taiwan, and 2020 fujian white and some aged white from 2014. i wanted to hook them up.   this felt good. sharing tea with people and giving them some things that are normally pretty hard to get. up next, a tea tasting with the another friend as i continue to introduce them to puer. the first dose is always free… xoxo, atzei besamim