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  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 2 months ago

    On the odd occasion, I leave the house to hunt for tea. It’s a rare occurrence—much like a hermitic groundhog hailing the arrival of spring—but it’s been known to happen. Sometimes that urge falls upon me at nigh […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve been studying the Bible a lot, lately.

    Wait! Don’t turn away. I swear this isn’t proselytizing, and—yes—this still deals with tea. Plus a whole lot more. It may be a tad unwieldy to navigate this, her […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 3 months ago

    While most of the world above the equator is currently complaining about winter, my mind is still stuck in autumn.

    At least, that is, from a tea perspective.

    Of all the seasonal flushes in India, Sri […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 3 months ago

    Throughout 2018, there was one name I could not escape.

    Latumoni.

    It was the name given to a village in Northeastern Assam, situated in the uppermost part of the Dibrugarh district. It was apparently so […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 4 months ago

    2018 was a weird year. Yeah, I know I’ve said that about prior years, but I really mean it this time. At present, it’s midnight on New Year’s Eve, a “chill-hop” station is on repeat-play, and I’m waiting for […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 5 months ago

    At the time of this writing, it’s been over a month since my last article . . . missive . . . er . . . whatever. Also, at the time of this writing, it’s Thanksgiving day. Due to a bout of illness that decided to […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 6 months ago

    On September 20th of this year, I received an intriguing text from a fellow tea-brother:

    I’d never heard American Vandal, nor was I aware that it had two seasons. My Netflix-fu was neophyte status at best. […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 7 months ago

    In the late-aughts (meaning: 2000-2009), my tea journey paralleled another hobby.

    YouTube.

    Since I worked the graveyard shift for most of the first decade of this century, I devoured a lot of content on […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 8 months ago

    In November of 2012, I accidentally “created” a smoked Darjeeling.

    I say “accidentally” and put arbitrary air-quotes over “created” because . . . that’s only kinda what happened. One fateful day, I put a […]

  • Thanks Valerii. I incorporated the new data into the write-up.

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 8 months ago

    Ruan Zhi—or “soft stem”— is a particular cultivated variety (or cultivar) of tea plant originally hailing from China, before making its way to Taiwan, and then migrating further along to Thailand and Myanmar […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 9 months ago

    Gopaldhara is a tea estate in the Mirik Valley in the Darjeeling district of the Indian state West Bengal. Like many such tea estates in the region, it began its life in the late 19th century. Plotted and planted […]

  • More depth in later infusions, but generally same notes.

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 9 months ago

    Glen and Lamu of Crimson Lotus Tea are one of my favorite husband-‘n-wife puerh hunter duos.

    Up until 2016, I only knew of them, and the good reputation they’d garnered over five years as trustworthy sellers of […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 9 months ago

    Tie Guan Yin is one of the most interesting takes on oolong ever developed. Despite its ancient-sounding name—invoking the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Guan Yin— the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” only dates back to the […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 10 months ago

    Sometime in early spring, my tea-centric social media feed blew up with images of this:

    My first thought was, Wow, that is one SWEET mansion!

    A modern-looking building, decked out with many windows […]

  • lazyliteratus posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago

    Hey @peter, domain redirects seem to be working fine. “http” works fine for steep stories links, but not “https”, but that doesn’t bother me. All seems good so far.

    Thanks for your diligent work as always.

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 10 months ago

    This year, I went to World Tea Expo in Las Vegas with a mission.

    To hustle.

    Not exactly to peddle my wares, or convey the influence of “my brand”, but rather to approach it the way an actual tra […]

  • lazyliteratus wrote a new post on the site Steep Stories 5 years, 11 months ago

    Of all the states in India, Arunachal Pradesh is one of the most mysterious and mystical.

    I’m not exaggerating. A cursory research glance turned up nothing concrete in regards to an agreed-upon “history” […]

  • Im in the camp of brewing the tea for longer and shorter volume of water before adding to the milk.

    But milking a Castleton Moonlight first flush?! Heavens no! Second flush, maybe.

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