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Basically there are whole "cultures" around various teas and how you might drink them and it's VAST. I have not even mentioned Japanese teas and that's a whole other world where *fresh* not aged leaves are valued.
The bad thing about getting into tea is... once you do it is hard to go back.
But a big compressed tea cake can last you many years and it only grows better with age.
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and smoked teas and spiced teas and fruit teas and herbal teas
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Intriguing! I've never tried using compressed teas. I'm a tea drinker, but my "gourmet" (not) is stuff like Bengal Spice (CS), Constant Comment (Bigelow), and a curious […]
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16 years ago I was in Hong Kong and it suddenly started raining so I ducked into a little tea house and sat down at this large stone table where a very kind man brewed cup after cup […]
@futurebird @TeflonTrout @trinsec I know a guy who’s part of a group that basically rents warehouse space in China to age big tea cakes in.
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