I really love the taste of Pu-erh but just some loose leaf and tuo cha
from Upton. I decided to try some uncooked and a cooked pu from Jing
tea shop. Now my question, I have a large yixing that i got from
EnjoyingTea and i only use it for pu and i have been just putting in a
teaspoon of loose leaf and putting about 12 oz. of boiling water in and
brewing for about 6 mins and adding about a minute and a half on the
next steepings. Im wondering if this will work with the uncooked
pu-erh. I dont like to make little cups of tea. If this wont work what
do i need to do.

On 12 Mar 2006 19:00:56 -0800, "frogman18" > wrote:

>I really love the taste of Pu-erh but just some loose leaf and tuo cha
>from Upton. I decided to try some uncooked and a cooked pu from Jing
>tea shop. Now my question, I have a large yixing that i got from
>EnjoyingTea and i only use it for pu and i have been just putting in a
>teaspoon of loose leaf and putting about 12 oz. of boiling water in and
>brewing for about 6 mins and adding about a minute and a half on the
>next steepings. Im wondering if this will work with the uncooked
>pu-erh. I dont like to make little cups of tea. If this wont work what
>do i need to do.

First, I suggest you don't use the same pot for raw and cooked as a
Yixing pot will absorb the flavor of the tea. It is traditional to use
two separate pots for raw and cooked when using Yixing.

Next I would use cooler temps and shorter steep times for the raw
puerh. Black puerh is almost impossible to ruin where green puerh can
be destroyed quite easily.

Another observation is that a teaspoon of loose leaf black puerh to 12
oz of water is a bit lighter than most people would prepare it. Try
more leaf and shorter but multiple steeps.

I would suggest you obtain a glazed gaiwan as it wont absorb flavors
thus allowing you to use it for any tea. Use the same proportions of
leaf to water as you used with the black puer but only steep it a
minute. Then adjust the second and third steeps according to your
taste. If you steep raw puerh for 6 minutes (1st steep) you may wind
up with something akin to battery acid. If the tea is too weak for
your taste add more leaf but don't increase the steep time much.

Start there and report back to us how you did.

--
Mike Petro
http://www.pu-erh.net

i know i need to invest in another yixing im really not a big fan of
guiwans and would rather just buy another large size yixing but i need
to find one of better quality in the $30-40 but ive yet to find one and
i guess i need to do a little more experimenting before my other tea
arrives

i really dont care for guiwans i might look in to buying a small yixing
just for raw puerh but first i want to see if i even like it and then i
will look into purchasing a small yixing. Could you tell me a place to
get a 5 or 6 ounce yixing for under $30?

frogman18 > wrote:
>i really dont care for guiwans i might look in to buying a small yixing
>just for raw puerh but first i want to see if i even like it and then i
>will look into purchasing a small yixing. Could you tell me a place to
>get a 5 or 6 ounce yixing for under $30?

I don't think you will find ANY real yixings in that price range, just
the copies made from earthenware.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

well ive did a little searching last night and found a few for around
$40 but im still going to wait until i see if i like green puerh before
i buy one

3/13/06


> well ive did a little searching last night and found a few for around
> $40 but im still going to wait until i see if i like green puerh before
> i buy one
>

Hey me again. Don't buy another YiXing. Since you are experimenting with the
tea, you want porcelain because it will in no way interact with the flavor
of the tea as an YiXing pot would. If you buy an YiXing pot, you will get
interaction between the clay and the tea and later between the old tea
residue and new tea. This is considered a good thing, but not what you want
right now. To test a new tea, or introduce yourself to one, you want
porcelain, which means a gaiwan or a small porcelain pot. Good luck.

Michael

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> I don't think you will find ANY real yixings in that price range, just
> the copies made from earthenware.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

You actually might be able to... in Pittsburgh there is a coffee
roaster who just began selling Yixing and he has pots that start around
$25-$40 that are in fact real and pretty good quality. I asked him
about them (because I was a bit skeptical, but could tell they were
legit) and he was able to provide me with all the paperwork and full
information on them including the invoices even. It indeed showed that
he was only marking up the lower priced ones by $3-4 and when I asked
him he stated how he really loved them and was hoping that some of the
lower priced ones would get people interested and into them too.
Sometimes you get lucky and find a truly noble merchant.

- Dominic

> You actually might be able to... in Pittsburgh there is a coffee
> roaster who just began selling Yixing and he has pots that start around
> $25-$40 that are in fact real and pretty good quality. I asked him
> about them (because I was a bit skeptical, but could tell they were
> legit) and he was able to provide me with all the paperwork and full
> information on them including the invoices even. It indeed showed that
> he was only marking up the lower priced ones by $3-4 and when I asked
> him he stated how he really loved them and was hoping that some of the
> lower priced ones would get people interested and into them too.
> Sometimes you get lucky and find a truly noble merchant.
>
> - Dominic

Does this Roaster have an online presence?

Mike
http://www.pu-erh.net

3/12/06


> i know i need to invest in another yixing im really not a big fan of
> guiwans and would rather just buy another large size yixing but i need
> to find one of better quality in the $30-40 but ive yet to find one and
> i guess i need to do a little more experimenting before my other tea
> arrives
>

I like YiXing, but failing that, I would use a little glazed porcelain pot,
espeically if you don't care for gaiwans. These can be had at Chinese shops.
They are easy enough to clean, and therefore you needn't worry about the
sheng/shu (cooked/green) thing. As for myself, I'm using a gaiwan more and
more.

Michael

see more about Pu-er tea , here
http://www.teahistory.net/Article/List_44.html you can find the pu-er
info

On 14 Mar 2006 23:38:49 -0800, "Robert" > wrote:

>see more about Pu-er tea , here
>http://www.teahistory.net/Article/List_44.html you can find the pu-er
>info


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--
Mike Petro
http://www.pu-erh.net