lazyliteratus
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, The Legend of Ivan Chai, on the site Steep Stories 3 days, 17 hours ago
Nah, I don’t think it had anything to do with a czar.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Caffeine and Crassicolumna, on the site Steep Stories 3 days, 18 hours ago
In late 2018, various media outlets were all a-buzz about a new (old) discovery.
An as-of-yet uncategorized decaffeinated tea plant in Fujian province, China. Some of the articles exaggerated the claim; […]
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Legend of Ivan Chai, on the site Steep Stories 2 weeks, 5 days ago
A couple of years ago, I tried a unique herbal “tea” from Latvia.
It was called “Rosebay Willowherb”. The sample was sent to me by a now-defunct company, and what intrigued me most was the processing method. […]
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Ivan? Like the Tsar?
Did you try digging in that direction?-
Nah, I don’t think it had anything to do with a czar.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, "I Don't Want the Game to End.", on the site Steep Stories 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Like many with nerdlinger tendencies, I was camped in front of my computer to catch this:
The first episode of Star Trek: Picard.
It was roughly 10PM on a Thursday, and I resisted for all of ten seconds […]
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And the show will go on.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Virginia's First Tea Farm, on the site Steep Stories 2 months, 1 week ago
When you’re a tea nerd like me, sometimes the best way to find new discoveries is just to camp out on social media and . . . lurk. Facebook is the perfect place for this totally-not-creepy behavior because of the […]
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So you just sit back and enjoy your findings done while surfing the Web (this is a more positive beginning :P).
It seems tea production is growing in the USA. I never tried an American tea. Perhaps one day I will.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Steeped in Selah, on the site Steep Stories 3 months ago
2019 was a very weird year for tea.
Or rather, a very weird year for how tea was covered in the press. And by “press”, I mean, mainstream media, not the usual tea or beverage-centric haunts that won’t hire […]
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A pause between two teas?
The important thing is to find your way and if tea fits in so the better.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sipping Mississippi, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 1 week ago
I waited way too long to tell this story. So long, in fact, others have already told it. Because of that, I have to approach this from another angle—a sipping angle.
The Great Mississippi Tea Company f […]
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You are not privy but you have you ways with new teas.
It sounds quite interesting.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Autumnal Assam Experiments, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In January of 2019, I wrote about this garden.
Latumoni.
It was a 7-acre garden that bore the name of the small Assamese village it hugged against. Throughout 2018, their name was everywhere. Mainly […]
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It seems quite an unusual production.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Vietnamese Oolongs Made from Wild Assamica, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Vietnam has an unfortunate reputation in tea circles.
Not entirely undeserved. Like countries such as Thailand, one of the ways they’ve tried to establish a tea growing/producing identity is by emulating t […]
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Sun Bear and Moon Bear? As long as they are not ghost ones, I can drink them.
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lazyliteratus commented on the post, The Two Faces of Issaku, on the site Steep Stories 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Nothin’. Just fanciness.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Two Faces of Issaku, on the site Steep Stories 4 months ago
At the Portland Tea Festival in July (of this year, the time of this writing), Oolong Owl dragged me to a Japanese tea vendor booth. This was markedly weird for two reasons: one, the Owl rarely dragged—more l […]
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I wonder what the gold really brings to this tea.
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Nothin’. Just fanciness.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Entheogenesis in Chicago, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 1 week ago
At the end of October, I did something completely out of character. I traveled to a city I’d never visited . . . for a tea festival. Stranger still? I flew out for said unknown (to me) city on Halloween. Nothing a […]
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Old? No. Experienced and still on a journey to and with more tea.
The Tea-Rex is really hilarious and a great idea.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Revisiting Castleton Moonlight, on the site Steep Stories 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I think it’s high time I talk about the Castleton estate.
Again.
I say “again” because, if you’re no stranger to this blog, you’ll know that it is one of my favorite gardens from one of my favorite […]
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You are a man of habit but only the best ones and a Tea-Rex 😀
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, A Focus on Fellowship, on the site Steep Stories 5 months, 2 weeks ago
A week ago, an article made the rounds in the greater tea community sphere. At the time it came out, it rubbed me the wrong way. So much so, I originally meant to pen a rant pointing out where it went wrong, and […]
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Tea is about sharing and the fellowship.
Drinking tea alone isn’t fun.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, My Birthday at a Tea Festival, on the site Steep Stories 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Over a week ago, I attended Northwest Tea Festival. Again.
It also happened to fall on my birthday.
I decided at the end of summer that the best way to ring in my 43rd year on Earth was to make a […]
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I really liked the meme before and after. However last time I attended one, I don’t remember in such a state.
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Perhaps, this is the proof that I might have been infected.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, There Once Were Two Teas from Huiming, on the site Steep Stories 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sometimes, in my search for new teas to try, I get drawn in by mentions of particular producers.
This is Wei Zhong He. I first learned of him through my dealings with Kevin Gascoyne (Camellia Sinensis Tea […]
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You are the Enterprise of tea, finding combos that no one (from my point of view) ever found and managing to present them while managing to make me want to give them a try.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Tea Balls of Manipur, on the site Steep Stories 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Earlier this year, a fellow tea blogger sent me information on an Indian tea growing region I’d never heard of.
A place filled with old(er) growth, semi-wild assamica forests, which bordered Assam to the E […]
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You answered my question before you knew it, regarding how much tea you should use it.
It is strange that a white tea produced such a dark liquor.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Sheng Puerh-Style Teas from Vietnam, on the site Steep Stories 7 months ago
Over a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote an article discussing the nature of sheng cha.
It didn’t go over well.
I used a Vietnamese sheng puerh-style tea from Son La province as a part of my thesis, and it a […]
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Such names. Too bad there were two genies. I would have imagined something like Ice Genie.
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, Alternate Tea Etiquette, on the site Steep Stories 7 months, 1 week ago
Five days ago, a vendor friend posted this article on Facebook:
I didn’t read it, which is usually what not to do, but I’ve seen such tea topical articles before. The direction they were going in was n […]
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The first of the tea club is that there are no rules (unless you ask @TheDevotea :P).
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lazyliteratus wrote a new post, The Flow of Tea and Time, on the site Steep Stories 7 months, 2 weeks ago
I should probably get around to talking about World Tea Expo 2019, huh?
To be truthful, my delay in doing so wasn’t related to my usual brand of procrastination, but rather some trauma. Stuff I’ve had dif […]
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Thanks for the backwards report, I enjoyed reading it.
And don’t forget home, sweet tea home! I am sure you will enjoy being Darjeeling, Ceylon… really soon.
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“equaled to two steeps of a lightly brewed var. sinensis Bai Mu Dan white tea. In other words, extremely low”
Now, this is a scale I didn’t know existed.