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The Cult of Yang. Easter Edition. YQH Part 2
Santa Claus didn’t come this year? No problem.. Easter’s early this year.. And while it’s not traditionally much of a gift giving holiday, who’s not above spiking the kid’s easter egg hunt with a few adult treats. I’m not remotely suggesting that you should skip buying your kids candy (it’s unhealthy anyways) and replace the…
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Global Tea Hut’s January Tea Club — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #70
Another review of the tea club. This is of the Taiwanese-based magazine Global Tea Hut puts on featuring a small amount of “Old Man Dongding”.
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Jingjiatang’s 2013 Xile (Youle) [Episode 146]
Jingjitatang’s 2013 Xile. This is a nice, good bang for your buck example of modern pu’erh from one of the six famous tea mountains (Youle).
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W2T’s January Tea Club — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #69
Featuring guest star Meet. This episode features the W2T January tea club, including some 2008 White Tea and the Ol Reliable.
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2003/04 Changtai Brown [Episode 145]
A sample kindly provided by Toby. A HK-stored 2003 Changtai tea.. Nice matured, clean drinker.
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HK Report
Big thanks to those that contributed knowledge and time to helping make this a successful trip. You know who you are! Hong Kong is a very different place than Taipei. Not having been to either, I naively expected a few more similarities. They’re both just big cities in east Asia, right? HK is dense, dense, dense,…
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Verdant Tea’s “Old Tree” Teas vs. W2T’s Little Walk — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #68
2015 Spring teas. This review features three of the supposedly old tree teas from Verdant (300yr, 1000yr, 1800yr) against White2Tea’s Little Walk as the benchmark.
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Bana Tea’s Tribute White [Episode 144]
Another nice change of pace. This white tea is from Linda Louie at Bana Tea.
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Storage, My Pumidor, a little Q&A — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #67
A one-off episode about storage, pu’erh storage, tinning teas, and my pumidor. Thanks to Benoit for the great questions.
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Denny Tea Farm Green & Black [Episode 143]
Very special episode.. Hand-harvested, monkey-picked teas from Denny’s farm…