I recently had a chance to have Bryan_Drinks_Tea and Lerxst2112 visit. They live no small distance away, and in addition to making the significant effort to drive to me, they brought good tea and a fancy camera!
Enjoy Bryan's salacious tea photos below, which depict us drinking either a roasted Taiwanese gaoshan oolong (green clay teapot) or a mix of 60s-80s Guang Yun Gong pu'er (red clay teapot). We also drank a tenacious 80s 8582 that Bryan brought along, but he focused on brewing it instead of taking photos--to great success.
We ended the evening with a delicious dinner at a local Sichuan restaurant, where our guests were kind enough to try some of the stranger fare we offered them, alongside some "easier" menu items.
9 comments:
What a start! Nice work J.
Shudda snuck in...
--shah8
Thank you so much for having us down. and WOW those photos came out nice! I enjoyed watching the two of you brew, and just contrasting the two styles.
Good times, good times! =)
Jess (lerxst2112)
@Brandon thanks!
@Shah8 you're still coming on 1/28, right? Bryan might show up too.
@Jess can't wait to see your style! :)
great stuff B^3! may your tea endeavours enjoy much success :)
hey what kind of hot plate is that?
and where did you buy it?
Work well with your lins kettle?
It's a GE I bought at Walmart, and it works well with kettles of all kinds, including stoneware/ceramic.
So do you usually boil on stove then use hot plate to maintain/reboil
Or do you start the boil from the hot plate? What is the time to boil on the plate say 1/3 filled?
Thanks!
I boil on the stove and then use the hot plate to keep the water at temperature. I don't boil on the hot plate because doing so is very slow. I haven't tried boiling just a third of a kettle.
I do have portable a couple of portable gas stoves in the event I need a moveable place to boil water, kind of like a camping stove but only one burner.
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