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About green tea
About green tea Today, scientific research in both Asia and the west is providing har evidence for the health benefits long associated with drinking gree tea. Is any other food or drink reported to...
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Magnolia v Jasmine scents
Damn if I can smell or taste the difference after comparing it to a TOH Jasmine Blossom. If anything Magnolia is even more overpowering. So that would lead me to believe the recent Magnolia green I...
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Temperature-controlled tea cup/pot warmer
Does anyone know of a good variable-temperature tea (or coffee) warmer? I'm mostly interested in something like an electric thermos with digital controls. I do a lot of desk work. I like to brew a pot...
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Peet's Pu-erh
Having just talked about some Jasmine tea on another thread I went and looked at Peet's website online; (Peet's Coffe is local to me and esp. in terms of not having to go to Starbucks...) I've been...
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A Tale of Two Jasmines
we begin our story with a chance encounter in the kitchen cupboard; 'whats this?' is usually the way these things start out. I found a tin on Peet's Tea 'Yin Hao Jasmine' loose leaf green tea,...
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South African Ntingwe Kwazulu black tea
This is a proprietary tea from Taylor of Harrogate. I accidently discovered this by running across a tea shoppe called House of Commons while biking through the lastest whatever Gen N urban infill you...
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New teas?
It's September with October weather and I'm suddenly drinking hot tea again. I'm fine on black tea with a couple of Nilgiris, my Java which is as good hot as cold, and, if I want a teabag, Twining's...
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Oolong tea: Makes me sweat
Oolong makes me become very hot. I feel it as sweat in my back and heat in the face. I originally thought it was because of the hot water. It turned out that other teas don't have such an extensive...
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Vietnamese Imperial Indo Oolong
This is a misnomer. Identified as such by the Web it is actually a early season green tea. It is Tung Ting style with stem of two,three,four leaves. Three leaves are rare and I havent seen four...
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Some questions Yixing teapots and good sources
Forgive if this question has been endlessly covered before but Google search sucks wind indexing this newsgroup (try a search on this group for either Yixing or Zisha). I am at the point in my tea...
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Tea Teatters #55
Reading tea leaves is easier than describing taste. Jim
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What good is a glass gaiwan?
(Subject line an homage to Larry Niven) I like the idea of glass teaware. Having spent a number of years in academic and industrial research labs, though, my standards of quality and utility for...
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Tree age and flavor?
i havent read on how trees grow etc, but even if a tree is 1000 years old, dont each new leaves grow with nutrients that are absorbed right then in those days when the leaf grows ? how does tree age...
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My Name is Osmanthus, King of Kings....
Anytime I see Osmanthus and a green tea I usually buy it. With my Chinese barometrics Osmanthus cools me down. In this case, it seems a shame to waste Osmanthus on LongJing :-). Jim
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