Pubertea Group Buy, Aged Puerh

That’s my local tea house! It’s a great place, and they have wonderful tea.

I might be interested in another spot if you open it up.

The main difference between 12g and 10g is 12g is two sessions in a 100ml gaiwan, 10g is two sessions in a 50ml gaiwan. Not a huge big deal just have to change the brewing vessel. For someone without a very small gaiwan it might be a problem.

Can you reiterate what would be included if we bought a spot now?

All the spots are filled, but those who are in can view the updated list on the OP. I will continue to add things as they are bought to the top section.

AllanK that’s my concern as well. The drop off is just in the range that it’s affecting how I’m planning on steeping the samples. I don’t have small enough brewing vessels to get two sessions at the g/mL I like at 10g.

Maybe time to get one of those dinky gaiwans.

Hopefully it’s not confusing. The amounts are on the OP. I won’t make you suffer with 10g. Also, I got overtime this weekend so no worries on the difference in cost for the EoT cake, I’ve got it covered

@aardvarkcheeselog
http://yunnansourcing.com/en/gaiwans/3729-classic-white-porcelain-small-gaiwan-60ml.html

Just bought: https://www.essenceoftea.com/tea/puerh-tea/2000-kai-yuan-purple-stamp.html

Also, there is a few spots left on the extra cakes since I went crazy with the buys :P
Again, I’m swapping out the Bana cake for the EoT cake and paying the difference; do not worry about the cost, vendors tend to send me 10g of random stuff on top of orders and I feel guilty keeping them even if I did the work so this will offset that feeling : )

Wish I could… but there are six people wanting in. Sometimes you just have to stay firm on a decision and this one is the amount of people that are in this.

Quite a few bought in without expressing interest and that’s fine. Next year, in August, I will know to extend more time for sign ups because this blew up quickly.

Understandable. You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not tea :)

Only nearly tea

Fantastic!

Figured this was wanted https://www.instagram.com/p/BKDTYvTA7aB/

how much extra for the tacos?

I want some tacos with cypress dong ding marinade

Food/tea pairing: Dong ding with ding dongs?

At my house it would be ding dongs with Dong ding..

as a funny side story my best mates brother lives in japan. He got invited to a wedding (i think it was a wedding anyway, something quite formal with family I do know) and decided to do a speech (before he had learnt much of the language). At the end of it he held up his glass and said ‘And as we say in england – chin chin!’ and drank his drink. If you didnt know, chinchin is the word for penis

much confusion resulted

Between the extra stuff selling (thanks everyone), the support I’m getting from the community, the small 5g samples vendors have given me, and my excitement for lasik this Friday: I ordered a cake of something special to break up and gift to everyone : )
Something like 18 days until I see that, so timing should still be the same.

I thought you were the all-steeping-pot

Well… I may have been fishing for someone (like you?) suffering from buyer’s remorse.. Although I’ve had several of the teas, it looks like a lot of fun :)

I missed this one as well. Been on a couple of months hiatus. Ive just made up for it by buying enough heicha to last me at least a year though :)

Is there a such thing as too many samples though?

Yes. I have boxes of samples. The boxes pile on other boxes and I can’t get at half of them. For non-puerh samples, they then slowly deteriorate. For all I know the puerh is also going bad. I would go on hiatus, but Liquid Proust keeps putting stuff like this out there and I have no resistance.

As an insight into my disease, my puerh spreadsheet currently lists 227 teas, but this DOES NOT INCLUDE travelling tea box samples or Liquid Proust’s offerings (too small to enter). If I added everything up it would be nearly 300, most of which are less than 10 grams.

And as the steepster tea doctor You need to self-medicate via tea sample administration. At least once every two days. Preferably IV but oral will suffice

I made a heroic effort at drinking samples a while back, but for 2016 I decided to sample wide, take my time, and make sure to be discerning.

So I’m right back where I started, samples everywhere, drawer full, boxes, floating on table, sometimes 3 vessels in rotation, wheh spring harvest is nice .. A lot of good tea this year!

And Jim, friendly advice – you should be careful with keeping records of your drug transactions like that, it can turn into trouble in so many ways.

So I feel as if I am a good guy doing bad things… Maybe I should keep a list of who to not let in on the group buys…

2017 Sheng Olympiad will jam us all up a bit :)

No cheating or doping this time just a clean race please lp

You make jokes about drugs, but I was gong-fuing at a scout trip last weekend and shared a tea with one of the other adult leaders that had way too much cha qi. Slight embarrassment. At least i wasn’t sharing with a scout.

Re 2017 Sheng Olympiad, I’m already looking for more shelf space. Good news is that I’ve sipped down half of the 2016 already (which sounds slow, but is pretty good for me).

Good thread: I’m now sipping down 2015 Moonlight Sonata, which clears up a bit of space for the 2017 buy.

No please, tell all of the time you spiked papa bear (is that cubs?) Or stitched up grand owl or whatever her name is

I want a full explanation

It was only 3 ounces. Not a tea drunk, just a tea “what the heck was that?”

only 3 ounces :lol:

I only have 10 containers of samples….

> Allowing myself a few weeks to do all of this is so much better than taking three days at 5 hours each to do it all, thanks for being patient.

I have already forgotten most of what’s in this and am not looking back at the thread to figure it out. All I know is that I’m psyched to try out some older/higher-end teas than what I’ve tasted so far.

Lol when posting to the UK please just mention TEA in the customs declaration. Customs might charge VAT (sales tax) for PUBERTEA!

Twenty years ago they might have confiscated it.

That’s a stupidly good looking beeng. Are the leaves that large and in tact all the way through the cake?

Pretty! Yay I am so excited about these teas! ^^