On Mar 12, 1:51*pm, fluxustulip wrote:
On Mar 10, 8:52*pm, Aaron Hsu wrote:

So I tried my first Pu Er (or what is sold as Pu Er) today. Very
different. :-) The term earthy really does it justice. I think I am
going to come to enjoy this particular tea, a lot.

--
Aaron Hsu | Jabber:
``Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to
live at the expense of everybody else.'' - Frederic Bastiat

I love Pu Er and have tried any that I have found. *The price isn't
always indicative of quality. *The most common comment I get when
introducing others to this tea is: *"it tastes like dirt". *Right on!
I love it for my first cup of tea in the AM, before my hatha/pranayama
practice. *Wakes you up and calms the digestive system.

I tried tea before doing asanas and I found that I don't like the
effect
at all, but I've only tried blacks, greens and white teas. Now that
you mentioned pu-erh, I realize that it may be more suitable for
asanas, but the trouble is that I always waste too much time
when making pu-erh with a gaiwan and many infusions, and I feel
like I'm wasting a good pu-erh if I brew it in a standard fashion,
with
large volume and 1-2 infusions. How do you deal with that? Do you
use cheaper pu-erh so that you don't feel guilty for making it in a
pot? Or maybe it doesn't make much difference to you? -ak