Oh shit y'all it's a TEA THREAD.

[Jwar]

Dude I love fucking tea. Especially the kind that relaxes you. Green tea is my all time favorite though with half and half and honey. Yea, I know...weird.. LOL

[Eivind August]

Dude I love fucking tea.

That's gotta hurt.

[oldangelmidnight]

So I take it by your description of pu erh that you like the darker / fermented kind? I need to try it again... I thought it tasted super interesting but I couldn't drink a whole cup of it. I once read it described as "forest floor," which I thought was just about one of the most apt comparisons I've ever heard. I've been a wuss and stuck to the sheng

Yeah, I like the old fermented kind. It gets better with each pot you make. You're supposed to use the same stuff for multiple pots to get the full taste. But I rarely drink enough to get to that point. My tea person used to make fun of me and said I had the taste of an old woman for drinking that stuff.

My nose is pretty useless with a lot of smells, which may contribute to my liking of stronger flavored things.

I once had a pu erh that was called "Camel's Breath" and that's what it all tastes like to me now. I imagine it's best drunk in a candle-lit library.

[Strange Tales]

I wish I knew more about tea. I just know I really like it.

Someone please point me to a rabbit hole.

[popvulture]

So I take it by your description of pu erh that you like the darker / fermented kind? I need to try it again... I thought it tasted super interesting but I couldn't drink a whole cup of it. I once read it described as "forest floor," which I thought was just about one of the most apt comparisons I've ever heard. I've been a wuss and stuck to the sheng

Yeah, I like the old fermented kind. It gets better with each pot you make. You're supposed to use the same stuff for multiple pots to get the full taste. But I rarely drink enough to get to that point. My tea person used to make fun of me and said I had the taste of an old woman for drinking that stuff.

My nose is pretty useless with a lot of smells, which may contribute to my liking of stronger flavored things.

I once had a pu erh that was called "Camel's Breath" and that's what it all tastes like to me now. I imagine it's best drunk in a candle-lit library.

Hahaha yeah, also pretty fitting! A lot people say "barnyard," "wet leaves," "mushroom," etc.—all pretty weird descriptors for tea.

Reading about pu-erh was really the thing that sent me down my own tea rabbit hole this past year—I thought it was super interesting that there could be so much variety created from one kind of green tea leaf. For anyone who's wondering about what we're talking about, there are two kinds of pu-erh: sheng (also called raw, aged) and shu (also ripe, cooked, fermented). Both are formed into cakes—sheng is aged, often for years and years (people buy younger cakes and age them at home like wine), and has a much lighter color and flavor, reminds me a lot of some oolongs. Shu came from adding bacteria to the tea in an effort to ramp up the aging—the results are much different and it's become its own thing that some people like just as much as the sheng. It's really dark, often the color of black coffee, and has a rich, woodsy, pretty damn funky taste.

I've seen that there are lots of flavored versions (vanilla, etc) of shu pu-erh out there that I guess are made to appeal to a western audience. Since I despise flavored coffee, I've avoided these like the plague. I've had good luck ordering some kinds to try from Mandala Tea—they've got a good range and sell inexpensive samples. Super nice people, too.

[Iommic Pope]

definitely sure we have a tea thread.

I'm adamant we do.
I remember you having my back about Russian Caravan.

Because if you tea, you must Russian Caravan.

[D.o.S.]

^^ We definitely have a tea thread.

[Chankgeez]

I think this tea thread is probably longer by this point than any of the other ones we've had so far though. (twss)

[Iommic Pope]

Can't be. We're only two pages in and nobody has made a teabagging joke yet.

[popvulture]

Pretty sure all topics have been covered already at this point. We're in the postmodern ILF era ::sips tea, pinky out::

[Chankgeez]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdqALzUA-fA[/youtube]

[Iommic Pope]

Discussing postmodernism in a thread about tea on the Internet with internationals on a forum about not music, but effects pedals that don't even get employed to necessarily make music.
If only my first year uni lecturers could have seen this coming.
They'd cream themselves in wonder at this golden era we have constant existential crises through.

[Iommic Pope]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdqALzUA-fA[/youtube]

That actually sounds really good.

[popvulture]

Discussing postmodernism in a thread about tea on the Internet with internationals on a forum about not music, but effects pedals that don't even get employed to necessarily make music.
If only my first year uni lecturers could have seen this coming.
They'd cream themselves in wonder at this golden era we have constant existential crises through.

[Chankgeez]

What would Dalton drink?