Every TeaDB Pu’erh Episode List
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