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Testing Tuesday with Oolong :)
Milk oolong:
Capital Teas is just succulent and a step above all other milk oolongs that I’ve tasted. Teavivre has milk oolong that is 25% larger than other ones which is interesting, but with tea size tends to mean little to nothing outside of aesthetics. Republic of tea is the lowest of these three and is probably what should be used to introduce someone to milk oolong because it does have a hard to describe taste to it.
Now, drinking that much milk oolong is rough… the taste just isn’t as appealing after the 10th cup or so, but I had to stay strong and do it. As for a cup of milk oolong, any of these three work which is nice; it just comes down to preference, but there is a quality difference between them as well.
Now onto one of my favorites: Tieguanyin.
Premium Fuji Anxi from Berylleb
First Grade from Tea Table
and
Premium from Mandela
This order is backwards. Now, Berylleb is my favorite Ebay store for sure but this tea was disappointing because it attaches the word premium when it seems that it is the free sample TGY that is used a lot as gifts. Berylleb has sold me some of the best oolong I’ve had at $52 for 250g which is great, but this does not stack up to that quality. The leaf is tiny and rather ripped with a smell that it too strong. Switching to the grade one from tea table was interesting because it was the darkest leaf and darkest color after being brewed. The taste is deep for a TGY, more like an indoor floral and not an outdoor floral. Now onto the Mandela which was the greenest of all, in this case it does say something about what is to come. Mandela’s TGY brewed a delicate cup that needed attention since it was light enough to sip and be too focused on something else to notice it. That’s why the Mandela tonight was a great outdoor and the Tea Table was good for inside. I find this to be true on certain Wuyi as well when it comes to colder weather or warmer weather depending on the notes it has or warmth it provides.
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The Mandala was one of my favorites, though, forgive me for my bad pun, you have to master gong fu to perfect it. It’s so high maintenance….but brewing it is an art form, so like you said, it needs care and attention.To compensate, the gong fu aspect acts as stress relief and meditation for me.
The Mandala was one of my favorites, though, forgive me for my bad pun, you have to master gong fu to perfect it. It’s so high maintenance….but brewing it is an art form, so like you said, it needs care and attention.To compensate, the gong fu aspect acts as stress relief and meditation for me.