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Interesting info on pu'er I learned tonight.

Thought you guys and gals would find this bit of info interesting: I learned from a tea shop boss tonight, one that spe...
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posted by myseri
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by myseri

Tea pilgrimage: Rohini

The morning of February 25, we left Dooars. We headed initially for Siliguri, the commercial hub of the hill country, t...
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posted by perin
4 comments posted 21yrs posted by perin

CTC (cont.)

Having said I'd get to the CTC tea I brought from India after the fragile, precious stuff, I measured what I still had...
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posted by perin
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by perin

Who is better than Upton for green tea?

I am a very happy customer of Upton Tea. Are there any better suppliers of high-end green and white teas? Especially org...
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posted by robert
12 comments posted 21yrs posted by robert

oh, the anticipation-

ok, everyone - the new-season greens are going to begin trickling in over the next few weeks, prior to the mid-april de...
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posted by seeyou
8 comments posted 21yrs posted by seeyou

Brewing Time vs. Amount of Tea

(PLEASE don't threaten to take away my Mikado!) How do you know, when tea is weak, if it means it needs to steep longer...
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posted by NewsPosts
12 comments posted 21yrs posted by NewsPosts

Adagio, IPOT, Earl Grey, Irish Breakfast, Jenaer

It actually all makes sense! :) First, the Mikado Gold, blah blah package I ordered from Adagio on Sunday (which really...
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posted by NewsPosts
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by NewsPosts

Tea pilgrimage: CTC at Dooars

The Indians we encountered all seem to take an early morning meal that's a kind of pre-breakfast, with just a few biscu...
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posted by perin
6 comments posted 21yrs posted by perin

Tea pilgrimage: lawns of Dooars

Some of the best times we had in Dooars were drinking tea outdoors at the managers' bungalows. After we toured the New...
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posted by perin
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granulated tea

I have discovered two store teas, that seem to be ground. I saw a tea on alink from this group that had a expensive gra...
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posted by tomspeed
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by tomspeed

Tea pilgrimage: factories of Dooars

Each of SMC's two Dooars tea estates, Soongachi and New Glencoe, has its own factory. The estates themselves are huge -...
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posted by perin
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Green tea temps etc.

I was making Long Jing this morning and noticed (sorry if this is common knowledge) that it seems to require a bit high...
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posted by Csinesis
7 comments posted 21yrs posted by Csinesis

Good and not so good

I'm just getting into this tea drinking thing and so far it's been fun tasting different teas. Today I got in some whit...
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posted by sidetraked
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by sidetraked

Tea pilgrimage: fields of Dooars

Very early on the morning of February 23, we pulled ourselves out of our sleeper berths. There was some more sweet rail...
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posted by perin
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by perin

This book is old but it's still interesting

For discussion, excerpted from "Teatime" by Aubrey Franklin, appointed "Tea Ambassador" by the Tea Council of the U.S.A...
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posted by thisaddy
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by thisaddy