Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Rare Purple Pu erh tea from Yunnan. Gift from my friend Eric (The Tea Garage / Brussel)

Is this a green Pu Erh tea Bela?
It seems too light for a typical Pu Erh.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

That's my magic word...I love Milk Oolong. I'm pretty much a black tea drinker until Milk Oolong comes along.

Originally Posted by fonthunter

Yes MichaelFrancis, that's one of my favorites:

I ordered a gaiwan from ebay and received three samples of milk oolong. The package arrived pretty quick from China, ordered on 1/13/13 and received on 1/24/13. I didn't get it from dragon tea house like the picture I posted, but I do have a big order coming from dragon tea house which includes their premium milk oolong.


This is from the seller's ebay page, it's listed as a travel/office gaiwan:

Originally Posted by Slur

Is this a green Pu Erh tea Bela?
It seems too light for a typical Pu Erh.

Yes Slur, this was a "raw" sheng type pu erh tea from wild tea tree ...

Originally Posted by donv

Mmmmmmmm, Milk Oolong.........

Never had it...

Originally Posted by donv

Hey Pups,

Seeing your recent posts, and remembering they are coming from what was a staunch coffee drinker a mere few weeks ago, it's great to see that you have followed through on your promise to give tea a try! Keep dickin' around and you'll find what you like and what you don't. I pick up from you that you are looking for strength, maybe this is from you're love of coffee? Anyway, I found my kick level with some ripe puerh, and I mentioned a while back, that it has qualities that any cowpoke would love, hints of hay is what I pick up, and in a good way. As far as the need for special tools, I'm sure others around here whom are more experienced in tea can help you more than I, but a tea infuser ball thingie, I would think, would do fine to let you handle loose tea.
I wasn't much of a coffee or tea drinker. I mean, at work, coffee was brewing 25/8, I think that's just part of the trade, (power generation). Heck, if your relief had his stuff together, when you came in, it was just starting to flow through the ole Bunn-O-Matic. I would drink coffee once in a while, unlike some of the ex-Navy guys at work, who's blood had to have been a measurable percentage! Still brew up some around here, once in a while.
As I said, good to see you giving it what you have!! Have a great rest of the weekend.

donv

Don, i had to chuckle at your line in here about the ex navy guys needing to have a measureable percentage of coffee in their bloodstream, that was me up until almost 2 years ago. been on tea ever since

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Never had it...

Has a nice creamy almost strawberryness to it. At least the Republic of tea brand I had did. Real nice.

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Never had it...

Definitely a creaminess thing going on.

I once tried some rather exotic Green Tea a few years back. It was given to my cousin when he was in China. Apparently they use little monkeys to climb down the side of the mountain to pick the leaves. Superb stuff and very very expensive.

Originally Posted by jodypress

I once tried some rather exotic Green Tea a few years back. It was given to my cousin when he was in China. Apparently they use little monkeys to climb down the side of the mountain to pick the leaves. Superb stuff and very very expensive.

I've heard about the monkey tea, but, I heard you can no longer get it. When being taken to work, they got out of their cage and were able to watch some Western TV prior to their round up. They realised they were being exploited, formed a union and have been on strike ever since. Quite a shame really.

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