Articles
- Pu’erh Compendium
- Ripe Pu’erh Concepts
- Pu’erh Factory Rundown: Why Buy from a Big Factory? Feat. Menghai, Xiaguan
- Old School, New School Pu’erh
- Raw Pu’erh Oddities. Feat: Small Leaf, Purple Leaf, Purple Bud, etc.
- Book Review: Zhang Jinghong’s Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic
- CNNP Zhongcha: History, Inconsistency, the Bubble & the Bargain Hunter
- Awkwardness in Pu’erh
- Loose vs. Compressed in Pu’erh
- Pu’erh, the Body, and are you confused yet?
- Time Machine! Pu’erh Snapshot… 2008
- Pu’erh as RTS Resource Management
- Blind Spots in the Western Market
- YQH Retrospective & The YQH Value Spot
- Ten Non-Tea Items To Help You Get Started with Pu’erh – Guest Post w/ Garrett
- Western Brands are Very Different from Big Factory Tea
- Reading & Drinking Numbers
Beginner Oriented
Traditional Storage
- Some Thoughts & Problems with Traditionally Stored Pu’erh
- What to Expect from Traditionally Stored Tea
General Videos
- Raw Pu’erh Basics
- Ripe Pu’erh Basics
- How I Brew Pu’erh & My Thought Process on Approaching Different Types of Pu’erh
- Brewing Darker/Older Teas
- Zhang Jinghong’s Ancient Caravans & Urban Chic w/Garrett
- Tree Age
- Q&A
- Nerdy Q&A
- Regional Primer Video
Regions
- Yunnan Overview
- Lincang
- Simao (Pu’erh)
- Eastern Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Yiwu, Mansa, You Le, etc.
- Western Xishuangbanna, Menghai County
- Big Region, Small Region. Tree Age.
Storage
- Outdoor & Indoor Pu’erh Storage in the West. Why Climate Data Only Tells a Partial Picture for Home Storage.
- Correcting Your Storage & Preventing Mold. What are Safe Parameters?
- Why Storage Advice from Humid Parts of East Asia isn’t Always Useful for the West
- How We Think About Storage.. The Storage Spectrum. Is Storing Pu’erh at a Constant 70RH in a Box OK?
- Tea Progress Report – Washington State Stored Tea 2019
- Early Yunnan Sourcing Production Aging Mini-Report & Some Pu’erh Thoughts
- How I am Storing my Pu’erh
- Home Storage Pumidor Survey
- Pu’erh Storage Schools
- Pumidors 101. Designing & Maintaining Your Own Pumidor
- Simple Home Storage Solutions
- The 70/70 Line & Projecting Pu’erh Storage
Storage Videos
- Storage Deep Dive featuring 2006 CGHT Yiwu Yecha
- Storage Deep Dive featuring 2007 YQH Lingya
- Indoor vs. Outdoor Pu’erh Storage & Aging Cigars Compares w/Aging Pu’erh
- Thoughts on Marco’s Hotbox Storage Experiment
- Tasting From Deep in My Storage. Pu’erh Progress Report 2019
- Pu’erh Home Storage Video
- Pu’erh Storage w/Garrett
- LA vs. HK Dry 2011 Treasures from Five Mountains
- Storage, My Pumidor, Q&A
Price/Consumer/Vendor Guides. These aren’t necessarily intended to be used as a way to shop but a way to be smarter about how you shop.
- Pu’erh Vendor Guide
- Secondary Pu’erh Market & A Few Pricing Factors
- The Western Pu’erh Scene is Really Dominated by Modern Young Pu’erh
- Does Pu’erh Increase in Value? Part 1. Big Factory Pu’erh Recipes
- Does Pu’erh Increase in Value? Part 2. Landmark Years & Dayi Special Productions
- You can Buy Young Pu’erh from All Over Yunnan
- Grams Consumed: Grams Bought. A Relatively Simple Ratio to See If You’re Buying Too Much Pu’erh
- Western Vendor Pu’erh Prices at Conception have Risen Since 2011 (& Probably Before)
- Datapost: The Dearth of Aged Pu’erh Available From Western Facing Vendors
- How Much Does Ripe Pu’erh Cost from Western Vendors?
- What’s a Bargain? Some Musings on Relative Price in Tea
- Datapost: 2018 Pu’erh Prices are More of the Same
- Shop Like It’s 2012. One Way to Think About and Find Value.
- A Look at Prices From 2011-2018 Through Nine Yunnan Sourcing Productions
- The Price of Menghai Recipes: Taobao & Other Purchasing Options
- Shopping for Bargains, The Case for White Label/No-Name Pu’erh
- Pu’erh Budgeting + Shopping. feat. Psychology, Overbuying, & Hoarding
- More Pu’erh Buying Thoughts: Buying Tea for Now & the Long Haul
- Cutting Out the Middleman
- Ripe Pu’erh Shopping: Price Range
- Sampling Pu’erh. A Few Considerations.
- Pu’erh Buying. A Few Common Approaches.
- Relative Price & Tea
- Blogs & Resources
- Two Thoughts on Hitting Hard & Buying Pu’erh
- How Much is Your Vendor Marking Up Your Pu’erh
- Pu’erh Vendor Markup Followup
- Baseball Closers, 99 Bottles of Wine (Drink Your Damn Tea & Buy the Good Shit)
Price/Consumer/Vendor Videos
- 2011-2018 Pu’erh Prices
- Pu’erh Vendor Markup Video
- Taobao & Pu’erh. A Conversation w/Garrett
- Why is the Western Scene so Dominated by Young Pu’erh. A Conversation w/Garrett
- Useful Pu’erh Blogs & Websites
Taobao Videos
Vendor profiles & guests, covering their tea, Yunnan, pu’erh tea culture, etc.
Videos
- Interview w/Scott Wilson of Yunnan Sourcing
- A Conversation w/Glen on Aging Tea in Seattle & Kunming, Blending & Tea Culture
- Tea Sourcing, Premium Ripe Pu’erh, & Tea Processing. With Glen of Crimson Lotus Tea
- Tea Storage & Humidors on The Tea Fix
- Tea N Tobacco Conversation on Pu’erh, Storage, Etc.
Drinking Related. Single Teas.
- Famous Tea: 1988 Qing Bing
- Famous Tea: 1999 BGT Blue/Black Ticket
- Rare Tea: Dry-Stored 1980s/1990s Zhongcha 7542
- Rare Tea: 1970s Ripe Tuocha
- Three Menghai Tea Factory Teas Between 1997-2001
Reports
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month May 2014
- Nannuo Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month June 2014
- Bulang Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month July 2014
- Ripe Pu’erh – Tea of the Month October 2014
- Mature Pu’erh – Tea of the Month November 2014
- Lincang Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month January 2015
- Wuliang/Ailao Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month February 2015
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh Part 1 [Young Tea] – Tea of the Month May 2015
- Yiwu Raw Pu’erh Part 2 [Slightly Older than Young] – Tea of the Month June 2015
- Semi-Aged Menghai Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month July 2015
- Loving the Crane is Hard to Do Xiaguan Tuition Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month August 2015
- Can’t I Just Settle Down.. Young Menghai Raw Pu’erh – Tea of the Month September 2015
- All I Want For Christmas.. Yangqing Hao Report – December 2015
- The Cult of Yang – Yangqing Hao Report – February 2016
- Mature Pu’erh Report – March 2016
- Mini-Wistaria Report – April/May 2016
- FOMO. 2016 Premium Young Tea Report
- Give me Guangdong or Give me Death Factory Tea Report – 2016
- No Frills. 18 Quick Hits. Young Pu’erh Report – 2016
- Don’t Call it Wet! YS Guangdong & Banna Stored Tastings – 2017
- Strong, Burly, and Not Too Expensive. Semi-Aged Xiaguan MX Report – 2017
- Xizi Hao Report – 2017
5 responses to “Pu’erh”
Hey guys, happy to come across your youtube channel! I was wondering if you have info/resources on suppliers or online shops in the US (that also deliver to Western NY), for tea and tea ware?
Thanks!
Chris
Chris,
Check out the vendor profiles portion of this list, every vendor (minus Yangqing Hao) carries both tea & teaware that is deliverable to NY. For teaware specific sites you may also check out:
http://teaware.house/
http://thejadeleaf.com/collections/teaware-1
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GREENWOODSTUDIO
http://stores.ebay.com/Dragon-Tea-House/ACCESSORIES-/_i.html?_fsub=5641094&_sid=150831608&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322
Happy tea drinking,
Garrett
Hi Chris,
Which PuErh cakes are completely 100% pesticide, fertilizer and chemical free? I know that sometimes they spray the weeds around it but I want a tea without even that. Hand picked and hand processed with no chemicals for many years on the field. I know I have to trust certain growers or retailers but I need a place where they guarantee it and show that they haven’t sprayed or used chemicals in many years. Thank you!
Check out Yunnan Sourcing’s own organic Pu’erh all have been certified and tested
Hi there
i leave in Switzerlandi am doing some personal research on Pu erh tea and TeaDunk effects as a substitute to alcohol and THC,
i am actually looking for some help, more details and information about this kind of tea, the varieties of tea that makes you really drunk or high and their effects.
i have discover a lot of info but many different and very confusing
i understood that to get this effects it has to be a “age raw Pu erh tea” or “age raw white tea”
and the more minerals is in the tea, the more it has effects.
is that right?
Could you give me some advices and maybe guide me to find the best tea on the market that could have the strongest drunk/high effect?
If you wish and if you have time, i ll be happy to have a phone talk.
Regards