not rinsing puerh

Is it a tea sin to not rinse puerh? Some puerhs seem to have more body if you don't.

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Dan Stromberg
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While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Dan Stromberg rolled initiative and posted the following:

There is no real sin in the consumption of quality teas - only your own preferences.

Personally, I find unrinsed puerh to be reminiscent of a barn I worked in one hot summer.

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Derek

Easter or not, I'm not going to get involved in theology. Nonetheless, I can think of two reasons for rinsing Puerhs, neither of which I think applies all the time:

- you need to get rid of some grit;

- you want to raise the temperature of the leaves so they won't bring down the temperature of the boiling water you're about to apply to them (please don't do this to green Puerh!)

/Lew

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Lewis Perin

Sin, NO, but.... it is traditional to rinse puerh when steeping gongfu style. I personally will always rinse any puerh with age to it in order to get rid of dust, molds, and other undesirables. One side effect to rinsing is that caffeine is extremely water soluble, it stands to reason that if you rinse you are decaffeinating your puerh. Depending on your point of view this could be a plus or a minus. I sometimes drink the "rinsing tea" especially for the caffeine jolt.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:43:19 GMT, Dan Stromberg cast caution to the wind and posted:

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Mike Petro

Hi Derek,

We actually call the rinse process "to wake up tea". As the name suggests, it serves the purpose of preparing the tea for drinking. As you may find out from our web site

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different pu-erh requires different rinse time.

You mentioned the unpleasant taste of unrinsed pu-erh, my guess is that the pu-erh you were drinking was not aged raw pu-erh.

Linda JinYuXuan Tea House

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Teahub - JinYuXuan

DerekXns94C8AC8661ADDdagwinn@130.133.1.44/11/04 17: snipped-for-privacy@gwinn.us

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I echo Derek's sentiments. I do rinse pu-erh because I'm going to get so many steeps from it anyway, and the little wash removes most of the little bits.

Michael

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Michael Plant

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Teahub - JinYuXuan rolled initiative and posted the following:

And yet, not everyone who consumes Puerh does the initial rinse. Hence, my comment that it's a preference.

I now rinse, and find that it improves the flavor. But the best thing I can do is to dump a little Comte Gris in with the puerh.

Actually, it's cave aged. So you'll have to guess again. :)

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Derek

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Michael Plant rolled initiative and posted the following:

Well, unrinsed, it reminds me of mucking out the stalls. And horse manure is not exactly an enticing aroma.

Ditto. Of course, a little doctoring of the leaves helps, too.

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Derek

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Simon

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If you rinse the pu-erh to open the leaves, remove some amount of caffeine, or some such, all well and good. In terms of purifying the tea of worm, bat, or yak shit, insect parts, rat hairs or the like, your rinse is most likely little more than symbolic. Hey, just enjoy the pu-erh repleat with God's bounty.

Come on, I'm just kidding. We all know that under Communism, these things can't really happen.

Michael

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Michael Plant

There's an old saying about obsessive hygiene: you gotta eat a peck of dirt in a lifetime. Well, I prefer to drink mine, so I don't rinse pu-erh.

-DM

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Dog Ma 1

Hello Derek:

Can you please tell me this- are you drinking sun-dried green processed Pu-erh or Black processed Pu-erh? That will make the answer easier. Linda is very knowledgable about Pu-erh. I am sure, she also want to know the answer of this question.

Well, rinsing Pu-erh is a personal choice-yes but their are some Pu-erh, you really need to rins before your brew them.

Ripon (Vienna,VA)

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Ripon

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Ripon rolled initiative and posted the following:

It's definitely not green.

This one definitely needs the rinse.

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Derek

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