Lewis Perin wrote:
> 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
> ---
> Lew Perin /
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once bought same cake with and without buds, of course ancient wild,
etc.. with buds was more expensive but jury is still out which of
them is better, at least for me it make sense to get cakes without buds.

for cooked i have some pretty good ones that tea doesn't look cloudy
just dark, if you can see thru dark

also read, don't remember the source, that by pu-erh tea liquor you can
judge factory processing skills, like kill green process,it should be
clear - if cloudy no good, maybe it was about cakes without buds.