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Both MarshalN and Hobbes have referred to "nongxiang" tie guan yin in recent posts. Using Lew's indispensible Babelcarp...

3 comments posted 19yrs

posted by tom2antony

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by tom2antony

Bubble tea experiment

I have no idea why, but I really like bubble tea. There I said it :) A few days ago I took a trip to State College wher...

20 comments posted 19yrs

posted by dominictiberio

20 comments posted 19yrs posted by dominictiberio

Time and temperature in re-roasting

Long post - if you respond please trim most of it. This topic comes up from time to time. I've only had one old oolong...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by DogMa_I

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by DogMa_I

A Market Gone Mad - so, what to age ?

Fellow teadrinkers, Supply of good aged (15 years+) cake seems to be waning (as far as my resources can tell anyway), a...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by draconust

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by draconust

coffee's gone.

I just scraped out the last bit of instant coffee stuck to the bottom of the jar. I drank it with hot water, sweetner an...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by gina39d

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by gina39d

A skeptic among the druids

Probably everyone reading this who has the slightest interest in Pu'er knows that the currently accepted wisdom is that...

15 comments posted 19yrs

posted by perin

15 comments posted 19yrs posted by perin

Chripal tea?

A friend of mine, who is from Turkey, gave me a package of something called "Mountain Tea" from Greece. The label says...

12 comments posted 19yrs

posted by asp

12 comments posted 19yrs posted by asp

AGAIN - Storage of Tea

Howdy group! This is a mundane question of you knowledgable and sometimes testy people. I am new with this group and wo...

13 comments posted 19yrs

posted by mnshearer

13 comments posted 19yrs posted by mnshearer

An invitation and some inf re pgwk

OK, Peter, I'm not normally one to lose it but you have managed to help me do so. So here is my invitation: To come dow...

3 comments posted 19yrs

posted by dominictiberio

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by dominictiberio

Old Keemun

My girlfriend's mother gave us a tin of Keemun that she got when they were living in Taiwan. It's at least 35 years old...

29 comments posted 19yrs

posted by asp

29 comments posted 19yrs posted by asp

Tea wallpapers

You can see the original tea wallpapers are taken Turkey's tea gardens. http://www.biriz.biz/cay/turkiye/

6 comments posted 19yrs

posted by biz

6 comments posted 19yrs posted by biz

MAC and Chinese characters

Damn, moved my Rosetta Stone text file from Windows to 10.0 and the characters magically appeared because of built-in c...

0 comments posted 19yrs

posted by netstuff

0 comments posted 19yrs posted by netstuff

FYI re my references to RFDT in my coming book

RFDT was very helpful in my writing my book, which I had largely completed many months before I joined the group but I...

7 comments posted 19yrs

posted by petergwkeen

7 comments posted 19yrs posted by petergwkeen

An invitation and some inf re Space Cowboy

I almost didn't send this message and also thought carefully about dropping out of RFDT, which would be a big loss for...

27 comments posted 19yrs

posted by petergwkeen

27 comments posted 19yrs posted by petergwkeen

Tea Espresso

Hey have any you tried running tea leaves through an espresso machine, I tried doing that last night a nd found it very...

4 comments posted 19yrs

posted by maurice

4 comments posted 19yrs posted by maurice