On Mar 12, 7:39*pm, Shen wrote:
On Mar 12, 5:03*pm, wrote:

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.

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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- Hide quoted text -

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I practice yoga, as well and you may want to learn gung fu style tea
service - the ritual and discipline work rather well, before and
after.
Shen

I do know gong fu style tea service, that's what I meant by 'gaiwan
and
many infusions', but it takes too long. I usually practice asanas for
about an hour or a bit more, and try to fit in around other things,
work,
etc, and if I did a gong-fu style preparation, then all of that
combined
together would take too much time.. Maybe I take too long when doing
gong fu! It takes me about an hour to set everything up properly, heat
up water (in a zojurishi pot), time infusions, clean everything up
after-
wards. I can see doing everything in maybe 40 minutes if I rush but
then I might just as well drink lipton:-). Come to think of it, that's
why I almost never do gong-fu thing at all, except for when I have
some easy work to do that allows me to devote some attention to
timing infusions.. -ak