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>>16041290
>(especially when beginning) you want to get enough of a tea to be able to try it multiple times to work out your brew parameters and to really get to know the tea.
I completely understand this viewpoint, and that is exactly how I saw it when getting into tea. However, I've come to realize just how varied much tea can be, and how some particularly environment-sensitive types such as pu'er may need more care to condition properly into something that is fragrant and/or enjoyable in texture. These days, I find myself really wishing that I could just have some simple fruity or chocolate note after having so much bland and bitter stuff. This has contributed to me losing interest and confidence in pu'er (and my skills to an extent) outside of masochistic tasting marathons, and I think that is a shame. I think getting several cakes of pu'er that may not be in the most consumption-friendly condition could be discouraging to many newer tea enthusiasts who just want to experience something beyond their grocery store bulk tea bags. It nags at me every day to know I have teas with latent greatness, but them not "being there".

They're certainly not all terrible, but most of my pu'er doesn't amaze me as much as I'm sure it could with better care. It all probably needs an adustment of storage beyond what I have going now to improve itself. I've been considering getting more containers to keep my (already segregated) cakes of tea in, as to concentrate their aromas and flavors more intensely within enclosed environments. It has worked well for my whites, and I've only done it for barely two days.

>>10790952
>feel much better(better cognition and mood) when I don't eat dairy and wheat
Am I autismo anons?

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