yes, silk road tea has a $50 minimum
"Blues Lyne" > wrote in message
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> "Lewis Perin" > wrote in message
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>> "Blues Lyne" > writes:
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>>> "Lewis Perin" > wrote in message
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>>> > There's also his cheap loose green Puerh (P-GPE-1), with a bold,
>>> > brothy, collard-greens-and-hambone taste.
>>>
>>> As strange as it may be to some ,I like collard-greens and hambones.
>>> Although I've had some strange health problems that have made hambones
>>> off
>>> limits. So a tea with that warm brothy flavor would be appreciated.
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>> I didn't mean to suggest it was a bad tea, and sorry about your
>> potlikker problem.
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> Oh, I didn't take it as bad, just the opposite. I just didn't think that
> description would appeal to the majority of tea drinkers. However, it
> caught my attention
>
>>> I noticed that Holy Mountain has a loose leaf green puerh with the
>>> designation P-GPE-1, any idea if it's the same tea? They have a
>>> reasonably
>>> priced sample.
>>>
>>> When I first started drinking good teas many greens and pouchongs had a
>>> salty, brothy, sometimes fishy flavor that took me by surprise at first,
>>> but
>>> I learned to really enjoy it. Then it seemed like my taste changed and
>>> I no
>>> longer get that from any tea. I had a Taiwan Pouchong from either Upton
>>> or
>>> Special Teas that reminded me of my mothers oyster stew with some
>>> flowery
>>> notes thrown in. It was amazing. Now it just tastes flowery and
>>> perfumey
>>> to me. I love good senchas, and at first they had salmony sea like
>>> notes,
>>> but now I don't taste them. I noticed the same thing with beer. My
>>> first
>>> tastes of beer was much different than how it tastes to me now.
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>> You're onto something there, to be sure. I haven't had Silk Road
>> P-GPE-1 in quite a while now, and I *think* I'm hoping it would still
>> taste the same to me.
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> I think I'll try a sample from Holy Mountain. I also called and asked for
> Silk Road's catalog, but it seems like I read somewhere that there was a
> 500g minimum order. That might be more than my budget can take in one
> hit. But then again Christmas is coming soon.
>
>>
>>> Drinking the last of my Xiaguan Green Tuo Cha from Teaspring.com
>>
>> What's it taste like?
>
> It took me a while to get this one right. I don't have a scale, so I've
> been eyeballing the amount of tea. Once it expands in the water it looks
> like what I would expect from a couple of teaspoons of leaves. At first I
> was using fairly hot water and experimented with steeping for around 2-4
> minutes. That produced a horribly astringent, tarry tea with a really
> intense long lasting, sweet, fruity after taste. I loved the after taste,
> but the tea was another story.
>
> After reading some of the recent discussions here, I've been brewing it
> with 160-170 degree water for one minute for the first steep. The tea is
> nice and smooth, a little smokey, some fruitiness, mildly astringent with
> a sweetness that gets stronger through progressive steeps. I usually have
> the water in a thermos here at work, so I don't increase the temperature
> for each steep, but do increase the time after the 3rd or 4th steep. The
> sweet aftertaste is still there, but more subtle and haunting. It's a
> very reasonable tea at $5.90/100g
>
> The only other Puerhs I've had are some samples that Teaspring was kind
> enough to send with one of my orders. The Xiaguan isn't as smooth and
> doesn't have the musty, earthy flavors that the 10 year old green Puerh
> sample had, but has a nicer aftertaste I also had a sample of their 2
> year old Menghai Tuo Cha. I think it was maybe smoother and had more
> clean horse barn in it than the Xiaguan, but had a similar sweet fuity
> aftertase. I had it about six months ago, so I'm going on memory.
>
> The black puerh samples I've tried give me a mild headache and quesey
> feeling. I think I'll stick to greens. They also sent some green puerh
> tea bags. Those were actually quite nice also. I was kind of surprised
> by that.
>
>>> and listening to Luther Allison Live in Chicago.
>>
>> Listening to the muffled sounds of the foundation of a new office
>> building being dug 14 floors below me in Manhattan.
>
> I think I'll stick with Luther. ; )
>
>> /Lew
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