It's a cold morning even though it's still summer. I know it will get much warmer during the day... but right now it's a perfect setting for some yancha.
Today I'm brewing Qidan Da Hong Pao (2021) from Lazy Cat Tea.
Last from my stash... will need to order some more before autumn comes in.
It came in an eight gram tin so pretty that I want to scrub the sticker off and save it for a century. Gaiwan hot to the touch. Put the leaves in. Shake, agitate, lift the lid. Inhale. Drink every last drop of the rinse feeling greedy. Round one. Round two. Rich iron red hue. Spent a couple hours over video and audio with the gentle souls who source this tea and live this life and breathe it. “Divine” I think I called it. And was immediately corrected. Nothing divine about it, she said. This tea is all about this earth. Truth. With the charcoal from the wood. With the hand of master teachers. Supervision ever present. Ever vigilant. Trees on barren cliffs, reaching skyward With the roots of what we source in direct opposition. The tin is black empty. The leaves are almost spent. The sensation in my body The buzzing on my tongue The sweetness in my throat The euphoric sense of peace Warm belly Flushed cheeks And Memories of plums plucked at peak ripeness. Almost as if we were doing gravity a favor. 2017 Old Bush Shui Xian from @shiftingsenses ———————————————— #yancha #rockoolong #oolong #oolongtea #oolongcha #wuyioolong #justinotherteablog #oolongaddict #gongfucha #gongfu #gongfutea #gongfuteaware #gaiwan #gongdaobei #teawares #teawareaddict #teaporn #gushu #teajournal #chaxi #chaqi #chado #cha #teadrunk #teasession #teameditation #tealover #teastagram (at On the Rocks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgNgUiqOCzD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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When it’s hot it hits sudden Like striking Like lightning A little time spent with a cricket Crawling backward Crawling forward Wings electric between two worlds Touching green Touching yellow Like gyokuro in the shade It uplifts I’m replenished But the cricket wants no part In my loping waltz with time As I wrestle with its pace As I settle in myself So it hops and makes a sound I find similar to freedom Then it leaves me by myself The way I came The way I’ll go ——————- Gyokuro for the sixth time in as many days. From @nio_japanese_green_tea . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oh my gosh. What? Im just burying some hashtags… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . : . . . . . It’s awkward to put ‘em up there. . . . : : . : : : : . . . : . : . . Also, imo, the first of the two W’s is akward… unnecessary even. . . . . . . . . . : . : . . . : . . . Well… phonetically it’s necessary. . . . . . . . . . . . : : . . : Wouldntwannaconfuseakwardwithakmak . . : : . : : . : . : : : . : . . . . . You know, like the cracker? . . : : : . : . : . Stone ground wheat. Two sesame seeds per square inch. Never goes stale. . . . : . . : : . . . : . . I’d rather have those spelled awkmak. . . : . : : : : . : : : . : : : : : : : : Btw. Being a bottomreader is not the same as being a bottomfeeder. . . . . . : : : : : : Welcome to my brain. . . : : : . : : . . . This is just where I put the lines that don’t go in the tea raps. . . . : . : : : . . JO. OUT. . . . : : : : : : : : : I said out. . . . : : : : : : : : . Nothing to see here. . . . : : : : : : . : : : : : : : : : : : . : : : : : : : : : : .: . . : : : : . C A N T A G U Y B U R Y S O M E H A S H T A G S I N P E A C E . . . . . : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : . : : . . : . . : : : : : : : : : : : : #justinotherteablog #greentea #gyokuro #gyokurotea #tea #tearitual #coldbrewtea #coldbrew #chaxi #ltheanine #teadrunk #teapoetry #teastagram #teaforlife #teaforone #umami #poetsofinstagram #teablog #teaporn #tealeaves (at Cricket Zone) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChM9eteOuEe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
⠀ На базе появилась супер ограниченная партия коробочек от проекта @tieguanyin_russia! ⠀ Шу Тегуаньинь - ТГ, собранная с одной плантации, обработанная огнем. В коробочке сравнительный набор из 3 чаев, на примере которых можно понять как меняется выдерживаемая ТГ каждые 3 года. + хэдлайнер набора ТГ 2005 года. ⠀ Каждый пакетик весит 10 грамм. ⠀ Партия 10 штук. ⠀ Стоимость одной коробки 1300 рублей. ⠀ #tea #teaceremony #teastagram #tealover #teaculture #teashop #puer #puerh #chinesetea #chaxi #blacktea #redtea #greentea #whitetea #tieguanyintea #tieguanyin https://www.instagram.com/p/B2eCEvwICPE/?igshid=1mfpnddpwdm4l
How is your gongfu cha? Wet? Dry? Clean? Messy? The key is that your gongfu cha is authentically you. #tea #gongfucha #Chinese #messy #wet #tray #fun #community #share #art #chaxi #social #holdingspace https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp4-u4clpV9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15lcecgs68yeu