DMikeS4321 Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 I just talk to my wife about Puer tea. She said that the benefit of all Puer tea are similar. The expensive one may smell and taste better. She seems to know this topic since her dad is a Chinese herb doctor. I agree, as long as the Pu'er is genuine. My concern is that there are a lot of counterfeits and the price you found at the market is very, very low. Pu'er is in high demand and, as such, is relatively expensive. I've never seen Pu'er retail at that price in China, let alone in the U.S. Best Regards Link to comment
rogerluli Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... Link to comment
Don Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... That is funny, i remember certain types of people used to always steal our lab balences. They kept the stolen ones at their homes also. . Now what do you those balences at home for? What do you sell by the gram? Link to comment
rogerluli Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... That is funny, i remember certain types of people used to always steal our lab balences. They kept the stolen ones at their homes also. . Now what do you those balences at home for? What do you sell by the gram? Well Don it seems to me that TEA is also an old slang term for a certain smokable product... Link to comment
Don Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... That is funny, i remember certain types of people used to always steal our lab balences. They kept the stolen ones at their homes also. . Now what do you those balences at home for? What do you sell by the gram? Well Don it seems to me that TEA is also an old slang term for a certain smokable product... Oh, you sell cheese and fresh herbs from the garden. Some tea on the side. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... That is funny, i remember certain types of people used to always steal our lab balences. They kept the stolen ones at their homes also. . Now what do you those balences at home for? What do you sell by the gram? Well Don it seems to me that TEA is also an old slang term for a certain smokable product... Oh, you sell cheese and fresh herbs from the garden. Some tea on the side. I have read that in Yunnan, "tea" is not unknown... Link to comment
Don Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... That is funny, i remember certain types of people used to always steal our lab balences. They kept the stolen ones at their homes also. . Now what do you those balences at home for? What do you sell by the gram? Well Don it seems to me that TEA is also an old slang term for a certain smokable product... Oh, you sell cheese and fresh herbs from the garden. Some tea on the side. I have read that in Yunnan, "tea" is not unknown... I have spent some time in Jinghong, it is a border town. Golden triangle. Everything can be gotten. Link to comment
timb Posted November 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 Nope, not a lab guy .. but I'm pretty strict when it comes to setting my VTF on my turntable.. so now I have a another use for my needle force scale. Measures up to 10g in .001 gram increments. Not I just need some tea.. For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... Link to comment
Shenzhen K-1 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Nope, not a lab guy .. but I'm pretty strict when it comes to setting my VTF on my turntable.. so now I have a another use for my needle force scale. Measures up to 10g in .001 gram increments. Not I just need some tea.. For those of you that drink this Tea, are you purchasing this from the states or importing from China? Any brands or suppliers better than the others. I've seen prices all over the place for Pu'er. $5 - $60 for 250 gram bricks. Tim OK dumb question, how much tea does a 250 gram brick make anyway?? In the interest of answering even dumb questions... I just weighed out my morning cup of puerh. I used 0.6202 g to make a 360 ml cup. Now I am a lab guy so you may not have an analytical balance at home... But that comes to 403.1 cups (my large cup that is) or 140.1 l... TB have you tried the new Super H market in Chicago and Naperville for tea??? You need to find some and let me try it!!! Link to comment
chilton747 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 I just talk to my wife about Puer tea. She said that the benefit of all Puer tea are similar. The expensive one may smell and taste better. She seems to know this topic since her dad is a Chinese herb doctor. I agree, as long as the Pu'er is genuine. My concern is that there are a lot of counterfeits and the price you found at the market is very, very low. Pu'er is in high demand and, as such, is relatively expensive. I've never seen Pu'er retail at that price in China, let alone in the U.S. Best Regards Also one needs to realize the difference between cooked and raw pu'erh. Pu'erh is cooked to bring out the taste and body quicker than raw. The raw takes many years for this. The difference is that the longer ther raw ages then the much more beneficial for the body. This also makes it much expensive. The cheaper pu'erh is the cooked but the benefits to the body are less than that of aged raw pu'erh. Trust me. Link to comment
DMikeS4321 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Also one needs to realize the difference between cooked and raw pu'erh. Pu'erh is cooked to bring out the taste and body quicker than raw. The raw takes many years for this. The difference is that the longer ther raw ages then the much more beneficial for the body. This also makes it much expensive. The cheaper pu'erh is the cooked but the benefits to the body are less than that of aged raw pu'erh. Trust me. I tend to agree with you on this, Charles, but many experts say the only real difference is in taste and "smoothness". I've had sheng (raw or green) Pu'er that had been aged for 70 years; the taste and texture was incredible. I'm sure there are other intangibles, but the "cooking" process (which isn't really cooking at all, by the way; it's a recipe for rapid but carefully controlled fermentation) mimics the aging process exactly. In fact, almost all agree that the shu (cooked) process is more uniform and gives more consistency. The major difference, of course, is that sheng Pu'er has been appreciating more rapidly than Shanghai real estate. One of my associates in Nanning has sheng Pu'er that is worth thousands of DOLLARS per pound! People are buying it as a hedge against inflation and many are making it the cornerstone of their retirement portfolio. Shu is appreciating rapidly as well (my wife has some 2001 shu that she won't sell because the price is going up so fast!) but not like sheng. I feel safer drinking shu as I wouldn't feel good about myself if I found out I had consumed a cake that was worth more than my car. THAT would make me throw up in my mouth a little bit... P.S. It was interesting to learn that the process for shu Pu'er was perfected in Guangxi. There is a tea still being processed in this way and available in Nanning. It's called Liu Bao and it's from the original recipe. It's not as refined as Pu'er and it doesn't taste as good, either. Link to comment
timb Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Mike, your Pu'er is raw or cooked? - Tim Link to comment
Shenzhen K-1 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Mike, your Pu'er is raw or cooked? - Tim Tim just buy some so we can share a cup and see what happens?? B) Link to comment
Don Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Mike, your Pu'er is raw or cooked? - Tim Tim just buy some so we can share a cup and see what happens?? B) Look out, you have to be careful with that stuff. If it makes you feel too healthy and the missus not around? Get you blood flowing, now what? Link to comment
timb Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Don You speaking from experience? B) Mike, your Pu'er is raw or cooked? - Tim Tim just buy some so we can share a cup and see what happens?? Look out, you have to be careful with that stuff. If it makes you feel too healthy and the missus not around? Get you blood flowing, now what? Link to comment
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