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9/22/04

> I just realized today that another reason I may be having a hard time
> with the puer I do have is that I may be brewing it way too strong. I
> don't have a scale so I have been eyeballing it. I brewed it a little
> lighter today and didn't mind it so much.

Good observation. No doubt about it. With Pu-erhs I like to err on the side
of caution, especially getting to know a new one. Brew it a bit lighter
still, and you might just fall in love.

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> I called and am having Mike at Silk Road send me a price list.

Who is this Mike at Silk Road?

>I don't
> have any money to spend on tea the rest of this month.. and next
> month I am hoping to get more samples of assams as I am still
> searching for one that really knocks my socks off.

No Assam tea *ever* knocked my socks off. I think you might spend your hard
earned money elsewhere.

> Need to restock my
> keemun. I want to get some honeybush for evenings (I know not tea, no
> caffeine though). Etc. etc...but I will get a good puer around $10 or
> maybe a little more and see if it lets me catch a glimpse of that
> elusive something. I do like the loam smell that people have mentioned
> before..not getting it from this cheap one though and I didn't notice
> it at the time with the Upton. Which could very well entirely have had
> to do with the fact that I was a total beginner and didn't have a clue
> what I was looking for.

Well, you're not a total beginner anymore. Somebody had mentioned that
Upton sells middling Pu-erhs. Somebody else gave a list of vendors recently.
I'd get the Pu-erhs from Silk Road Teas. That way, you'd be able to describe
the qualities you like and get recommendations that mean something.

Michael