oleg shteynbuk > writes:

> Lewis Perin wrote:
> > No, not even for sencha, in my opinion. A tea can be cloudy because
> > of the tiny "hairs" characteristic of buds and young leaves.
> > I think you'll have a hard time coming up with a rule, however
> > trivial,
> > that really applies to the whole range of tea.
>
> what about pu-erh, i usually look if tea is clear or cloudy but there
> are pu-erh with buds too, probably not too many of them as i have only
> one or two with buds and haven't tried them for a while.

Yes, there's a genre of Pu'er often called Silver Tips that's
basically all-bud. But that isn't all; lots of cakes and bricks have
buds in the mix along with mature leaves. And who knows, with Pu'er I
wouldn't be surprised if there were other good reasons for the liquor
being cloudy. (Not to mention that virtually all cooked Pu'er is
cloudy.)

/Lew
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