so envious of you guys who are able to drink raw pu erh... i'm having problem sleeping after drinking raw pu erh, ti guan yin and cha wong.

any particular reason to it? have been drinking ripe pu erh for the past 2 years...
cheers

Quikstep, how does washing the tea leaves long got to do with it? I thought tea leaves contain a lot less caffein than coffee. I can take coffee even in the evening but not all chinese tea..
Anyway any recmmended raw pu erh? I thought of trying it out.
Cheers

Aged Pu-Erh Teas are lower in caffeine than younger ones. Post-fermentation by ageing breaks down the caffeine which naturally diminishes the older a tea gets. Generally, Green Pu-Erh contains more caffeine than Black Pu-Erh  as the Black varieties are subjected to additional processing which diminishes the caffeine which is water soluble.

(Note: We use the term “Chinese Black Tea” as it is commonly used in the West to describe what are actually known in China as Red Teas. The true Chinese Black Teas as they are known in China are the post-fermented, aged teas such as Pu-Erh Tea).

But there is a way to reduce the caffeine level of any tea if you are sensitive to it. Any tea is gong fu chabest made using the traditional Chinese method of tea-making known as Gong Fu Cha (Tea With Great Skill). This highly controlled method of tea-making is characterized by using small teapots and multiple brews with very short steeping times of just a few seconds. This intensifies the flavour of any tea and reduces the caffeine consumed compared to Western methods of tea-making. In Gong Fu Cha, the first brew is for washing the leaves and is poured away, so it is not consumed. This also has the effect of washing away much of the caffeine which is highly soluble in water.

codyt84 i can't help but to associate your nick to Cody from Lau Char / Lau Chan in Kepong. They are the official distributor of XG in KL at least. Have you find them? As long as it's nice tea, ppl will horde bcos they are quite some speculators/investors here.

alternatively if u r brave enough to order online AND in KL/Selangor, we can share shipping http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=27371988282. This vendor for me is reliable and I order from a forumer called cloud8313 in services board.

Hello all, how's everyone tea'ing???

looks like a very well made pot. desires it more than your avatar.

sipping some 2007 Dayi Silver Color while trying to stay up for midnight match. The color of the soup has certainly deepen but the flavor or intensity seemed like did not evolve after 1 yr. lonely beeng.

no need to clean. it's probably a small and really black bird in front of the clouds

is there the best boiler to use for making tea?? my friend say my water taste like metal... hmmmm

Hi, I'm wonder this coming tea expo, mini tuo (size like 20 cents) with variety flavour available?