Which tea is your everyday tea?
I fall in love with Ceylon tea after I went to Sri Lanka. Now, I drink Ceylon tea to start my day, about 6-7 cups everyday. Also, I like to drink Pu erh tea after dinner, coz that not too much caffeine.
And you guys?
I don’t have a specific everyday tea because I try to drink different tea every day. But generally I would have to say ripe puerh. Although I rarely drink the same ripe two days in a row.
I rarely drink the same tea in one week, maybe month. Actually, I have enough stash to do a new tea every day for a year and a half.
So would you say that most of your teas are sample sized, or do you have 400 lbs of tea around your house?
I’ve been trying to plan out how I want my tea collection, and I’ve been thinking that sample sizes are good, and then re-order bigger sizes of teas I love. My collection is swiftly growing in size. What do you wish you had known about tea ordering/ organization/ planning/ etc. when you were starting out?
Mostly samples in my stash. Starting out, yes just buy samples. I got a few times were I got 1lb of a single tea and it went bad. I tend to prefer around 1oz (28gram) sample sizes. I sometimes will buy 2oz or 50g sizes if I’m confident in the tea or know I can drink it up or it has good swap cred.
Gauge that your teas will be bad in 2 years or less (depending on tea of course, green teas I buy in very small quanity). I track how much I drink by weight, which is super handy in knowing how much I can get through. http://oolongowl.com/2015-oolong-owl-tea-stash-and-consumption-data/
If I’m buying puer, if I trust the vendor/bought from them before I would buy whole cakes without trying it. Puer from good and popular vendors swap well too.
Always different tea, depend on the mood. In General I drink more Green tea and white tea in the spring and summer. Oolong and Puerh in the autumn and winter.
Always different :)
My stash is Mostly 25-50g bags, 100-250g bags of favourite teas, A cake collection & My samples/swaps/group buys drawer
Depends what I have in stock. I try to keep 4-5 different teas that I like and I rotate based on mood. I’m not one of the ‘gotta have them all’ collectors – no disrespect to the collectors, but more than 10 is a problem ;).
That being said, I’ve been going through my 2015 Imperial Jin Jun Mei from Yunnan Sourcing very very quickly.
Raw pu’er or sheng gong fu (ish) style up to around 3pm after which I do not drink caffeine so that I can have a good night sleep.
Once a month or so I sip an aged shou or ripe pu’er. Due to possible kidney stone formation I can not drink dark coloured teas more often.
Matcha (usually in the morning) and Darjeeling (Margaret’s Hope and Namring are my favourite).
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