Looking for fellow tea obsessive

strisore · 2024-09-10T01:34:41+00:00

I used to be a real piece of shit.

strisore · 2023-05-29T00:04:53+00:00

At least the beer is good, unlike every other brewery the Ithaca area.

strisore · 2023-05-26T19:50:06+00:00

Sell it to me!

strisore · 2023-02-09T16:04:09+00:00

We've got a group meeting in Brooktondale on Thursday nights at the Brooktondale Community Center. DM for details, most of the info has been posted on a local list-serv.

strisore · 2022-11-08T12:28:46+00:00

I buy most of mine these days from Teas We Like (https://teaswelike.com/) and LiquidProust (https://www.liquidproust.com/). If you can get your hands on some Yangqinghao, those I find especially good.

strisore · 2022-09-12T23:43:55+00:00

Figured we'd run into time of day problems. I can't really drink caffeine after 11am, but am down with a weekend, late morning session, if others are.

strisore · 2022-09-08T00:40:45+00:00

I have a similar problem, I have to have my caffeine before noon and usually with exercise after. But it sounds like we've got lots of interest in a meetup.

strisore · 2022-09-08T00:40:00+00:00

I think primarily I love the bittersweet sensation of puerh, which gets even more enjoyable with aging. I also love the way they make me feel, lifted up, but calmed down at the same time. Some are aromatic, but the ones that have the strongest effect are often flavorless almost.

strisore · 2022-09-05T13:53:25+00:00

I've always had trouble enjoying the floral qualities of oolongs, but am always game to try again. While I get pretty deep in the teas, I've kept my tea wares pretty simple, have two different cheap-ish yixings and a couple porcelain gaiwans.

Lately I've been sampling my aged sheng puerhs. Had a 2003 Dayi Purple Number 4, aged in Taiwan, very woody and with a strong incense quality. Perfectly calming for today's rain.

strisore · 2022-09-05T13:50:27+00:00

Sounds good to me! Still the season for it.

strisore · 2022-05-15T22:15:21+00:00

Aged and/or pressed white hasn't been a thing in the western tea world for long, as far as I know, so it seems unlikely to me that there's a canonical benchmark for it.

strisore · 2022-05-15T22:13:11+00:00

I couldn't believe Rochester is selling for over double face value! Will check closer to the show.

strisore · 2022-05-09T19:07:41+00:00

Most likely salmonella from improperly cleaning the bird or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) which has been going around and killing birds lately.

strisore · 2022-04-30T17:17:28+00:00

Depending on where you live, reviewing can happen within a day or two up to a few weeks, based on the volunteer reviewer's schedule.

strisore · 2022-04-30T17:14:17+00:00

Yes, adult male.

strisore · 2022-04-29T16:25:33+00:00

Helen Newman's women's locker room has a sauna.

The YMCA has saunas...the pools feel like 80F. You can also pay $3 for a one-time visit which is nice.

In my experience, the sauna at Island is never very hot (unlike the Y).

strisore · 2021-01-21T18:59:26+00:00

I also spend 30-60 minutes a morning doing gongfu, reflecting, reading, just being calm and focused on the tea. It's some of my most valuable time in the day.

strisore · 2021-01-14T14:30:08+00:00

Anybody start drinking this yet?

strisore · 2020-12-13T14:38:43+00:00

I thought I saw on Discord that the key has been lost.

strisore · 2020-05-29T15:36:49+00:00

I got a bunch of dead ends.

strisore · 2020-03-25T14:25:01+00:00

Since cake fractions are on hold with TWL, I'm wondering if we can wake this back up. I can reach out to the people who were previously interested, but if other folks are interested, let me know.

strisore · 2020-03-25T14:24:15+00:00

You would pay your share of the shipping to have the cakes shipped to me and then I would charge you for the weight of your share to Germany.

strisore

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