icetea

3/7/2009 2:26 AM UTC

I listen to one of your shows on tea i would love to be on your show one day soon, I have noticed on the net many people are doing and sharing puerh trials/tests I think this kindof work is great. We really need more research on Puerhs. Understanding aging. I want to discuss the things we should consider when aging puerhs by first looking at aging a totaling different tea, oolong teas. If you are aging oolongs you need to make sure the moisture level around 3%, and then sealed and put away, in average home living temperatures, no air and no light. Now puerhs are another breed they need about 12%. Most of my puerhs stay wrapped in calligraphy cotton paper and keep green puerhs with black puerhs away from each other. Because the teas are different in composition, black puerhs are piled (1week to over a month) again depending on the macro and micro environments, the post fermentation pile is kept under 60 degree Celsius (°C) degrees [140'F] by rotating and churning the pile which is about a meter high and long as the piling room, leaves need some added water (sprinkle not flood) and after the entire black puerh processing then are packaged and can be sold. When you buy and take the black puerhs home and want to store/age them in an area, remember to keep the blacks from the greens ...... green puerhs which are non- piled puerhs both can be aged so you can have young black puerh and aged black puerh, and the same logic follows for the greens, young green puerh can be kept with aged green puerh. Ideally only the same age/type/quality/variety should be kept together; but that’s too complicated. For the average collector just have two places one for greens and one for blacks. Many people are now calling a “puerh tea” any post fermented tea that come not only from Puerh city but all of Yunnan as well. On your storage, cardboard is fine and breathable, even though I like untreated bamboo baskets, and covered with cotton paper to keep dust out. I agree with adding water not to the puerh but to the air and let it naturally absorb the moisture....but we should first let it de-gas to let the chlorine come out, also dont put plastic on the cardboard,, plastic is great for keeping in the humidity but terrible on the breathability of the puerhs, if no air, the puerhs can die or not oxidize/ferment. this is some more info... http://teaarts.blogspot.com/2008/07/puer-teas.html

SilviaR

9/16/2008 11:08 PM UTC

Wonderful meditation - thank you so much - Blessings and light to you :-)

It's All About You

4/2/2008 8:39 PM UTC

very interesting and delightful show...thanks for being part of blog talk radio