If we're talking new tea drinkers then I think the biggest thing they need is legitimate knowledge. Some people on this platform hype tea up to what it isn't. Tea is tea. Secondly, don't spend your life savings on a teapot. I'm still using an $80 repro clay pot and apart from some leaking it goes fine. Would a hand made clay pot be better? Yes. Is it severely impacting my experience? Nope. I think the biggest thing I found out with my last tea order is that harvest time matters. A spring harvest is considerably better than a winter harvest. Also year matters too. I think I had a 2013 dan cong and it reminded me of buttered popcorn but a 2014 does not taste like that.
Old cleaned-out prescription bottles have been great for transporting 5-10 grams of tea. I've started taking one or two with me when I head into the office.
Thank you for tea source recommendations. So Han especially at West China Tea is amazing for making people feel welcome and comfortable around tea. He also seems to focus more on small artisan farmers compared to some others so while his selection is not as crazy big as say Yunnan sourcing, it still has plenty of variety and some versions of tea that are unique to the farmer in China he sourced it from.
I've been into tea for a while and it was worth the watch just to see another persons perspective and enjoyment. Thank you very much for all of your videos.
Typically no. I may break off some if I know I'm going somewhere and I will be having tea and that's the one I want but otherwise I find it much easier to store them in the cake form.
oyster knives make great cheap tea picks.
@@johndurishan695 ooooh that’s a good call!
If we're talking new tea drinkers then I think the biggest thing they need is legitimate knowledge. Some people on this platform hype tea up to what it isn't. Tea is tea. Secondly, don't spend your life savings on a teapot. I'm still using an $80 repro clay pot and apart from some leaking it goes fine. Would a hand made clay pot be better? Yes. Is it severely impacting my experience? Nope.
I think the biggest thing I found out with my last tea order is that harvest time matters. A spring harvest is considerably better than a winter harvest. Also year matters too. I think I had a 2013 dan cong and it reminded me of buttered popcorn but a 2014 does not taste like that.
I had a Da Hong Pao that reminded me of that too on its latter half of its steeps. Though it was just the smell.
Old cleaned-out prescription bottles have been great for transporting 5-10 grams of tea. I've started taking one or two with me when I head into the office.
Smart, I gotta use that.
Question does that leave you looking like a drug dealer?
@@OrangeColt Naw, drug dealers usually don't have prescription bottles, but my son did cross off the labels and write tea on them.
Thank you for tea source recommendations.
So Han especially at West China Tea is amazing for making people feel welcome and comfortable around tea.
He also seems to focus more on small artisan farmers compared to some others so while his selection is not as crazy big as say Yunnan sourcing, it still has plenty of variety and some versions of tea that are unique to the farmer in China he sourced it from.
I've been into tea for a while and it was worth the watch just to see another persons perspective and enjoyment. Thank you very much for all of your videos.
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it’s fun to go back thinking about what I would go back to in the beginning 🤔
Awesome 😎 thanks 👍
Very helpful video!
Do you ever fully break open your cakes and store them loose?
I picked up a couple clay jars and broke apart half a shou cake to put inside thats my daily drinker
Typically no. I may break off some if I know I'm going somewhere and I will be having tea and that's the one I want but otherwise I find it much easier to store them in the cake form.
I don’t have any storage jars currently so I haven’t done that in a while but I also do find it easier to just store as cakes.