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>>11885507
DON'T

BULLY

POCKET PATCHY....!!!!!

>>11605113
Gomen, I'm in Scotland.

>>11481408
Not the same person.

I almost made a new thread after I saw that the old one fell victim to the get flood.

Against.

Patchouli. I bet she's really soft.

>>9104763

The first post is the one people seem to pay attention to the most, and we haven't had all that many visitors to the channel yet. I am guessing this is because people are missing it in the body of the thread since it's not listed in the OP.

>>9105032

Get an IRC client, fill out the necessary information at start-up, then type:

/server irc.rizon.net
/join #teahou

>>9027641

I bought it slowly, over a period of nearly three years now.

>>9027662

Why should you, indeed? You don't have to. If you like drinking bagged tea and you're satisfied with it, then keep doing it. I started brewing loose leaf tea when I kept trying to find better and better brands of bagged tea, until I eventually realized that the higher grades of tea are not sold in teabag form, and if I wanted to keep drinking better tea, I would have to learn to brew it loose.

>>9027700

If money's tight, maybe you could try:

http://www.denstea.com/teapots-cups-shincha-teapot-1900-c-275_327.html

And pick up some cheap cups from the nearest Chinatown. Every time I go, I'm surprised by how nice the stuff is.

>>8969327

Sencha is something that can be bitter and unsatisfying if it's not really good. It can be very hit or miss, which is why I've said recently that if I couldn't afford good sencha, I would probably drink the other, cheaper types of Japanese tea instead (karigane and houjicha for me). You should probably reserve your judgement on sencha until you can try something from this year's harvest, or at least something better. Den's mid-range sencha left a lot for me to desire too.

I would suggest holding off on trying gyokuro for now. The only gyokuro I have ever found worth drinking is gyokuro that is too expensive to experiment with, meaning you'll want more brewing experience before this.

From Den's, I'd suggest Guricha. It's my favourite tea from there, and what I generally serve to guests. It will give you a very good sencha-like flavour without a very good sencha-like price. Although if you want to try a good sencha, I would suggest going straight to the top and buying their Zuiko, which I remember is very good. However, since it's shincha season, if you have the money to spend, forget everything else and just get some shincha instead. If you don't like shincha, then you'll probably just want to stick to roasted teas, Chinese etc. instead.