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April 2013 Southeast Tea Affair 13 Apr 2013 | 06:52 am
Now finally back in the swing of my addiction habit hobby, I decided to risk a caffeine binge and hosted a meeting of our local Southeast tea group. Unfortunately, a Facebook event snafu created a du...
7581 from Su 30 Mar 2013 | 08:28 pm
This was a Chinese New Year gift from our favorite munificent Malaysian, Su. It's a 7581, a brick whose recipe is normally shu pu'er of a lighter fermentation, but this incarnation is sheng. In the pi...
Quitting caffeine 18 Dec 2012 | 11:42 pm
Today is roughly three and a half weeks since I last had coffee or tea. After a brief hospital visit, I decided to quit caffeine for a while. The hospital visit wasn't caffeine-related, and during my...
2003 Changtai from Su 29 May 2012 | 04:14 am
Su, being so awesome, mailed me two samples of tea to try from her stash in Malaysia: a 2003 Changtai factory sheng and a 2006 sheng brick by Pingxiwangfu. Today, we drink the 2003 Changtai. The brow...
Live in the Southeastern US? Join us! 5 May 2012 | 10:47 am
Hello Floridians, Georgians, Alabamians, Carolinians, and Tenneseeans who drink and love Asian teas: While a few of us have been meeting every over month for tea, I know there are others out there wh...
March Southeast Tea Meetup 21 Apr 2012 | 04:24 am
Photo credits: Bryan C and Jess K (thanks, you two!) It was a great day to have tea in North Georgia on March 24, and our little group of tea heads strewn across the Southeast converged once again a....
Next Southeast Tea Meetup: Saturday 3/24 15 Mar 2012 | 04:28 am
We got tea drunk and had a lot of fun last time, and we're going to meet up again on 3/24 to drink some good gongfu tea! We would love to have more local tea lovers come, so please comment here with....
Puerh Aging in the South 14 Mar 2012 | 06:51 am
In response to his recent post on aging, "Ideas of Proper Puerh Storage," I observed to Marshaln that my tea stash is aging much better here in the humid south than in drier California. My shengs are ...
Wang's Sheng 12 Feb 2012 | 04:55 am
This sheng sample came to me from BK a few years ago, maybe 2007 or 2008. The tea was sourced from a "Master" Wang Ming Yi who supposedly comes from the Himalayan part of Yunnan, which doesn't exist b...
New Year, New Setup 9 Feb 2012 | 04:41 pm
For the moment, I have ditched the tea tray and opted for the "plates and bowls" setup. It's a little simpler and easier to clean. I like tea trays with basins because you can get messy and think abo...