Been drinking loose leaf tea for about four years now, I like to embrace the cha chi by drinking tea on a empty stomach first thing in the morning 👌

The first time I got tea drunk I was drinking good quality Lung Ching. It's one of those core early drinking days memories... It was brewed, perfectly and just wow, I still remember the magic of that tea. Brewed it in a large glass teapot western style too!

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

That’s a really great point it doesn’t have to be gongfu style to get there either. Idk if I’ve ever brewed a tea that got me tea drunk grandpa or western style. 🤔

@drezworthy

6 ай бұрын

@@TaoTeaware I used to work for Harney and Sons Tea company in the early-mid 2000s. They had a tea tasting room where they put up hundreds of tins each with a different kind of tea on the walls and customers could come in a try them. We brewed professional tea taster style, never gongfu and had running western style glass pots of teas going all throughout the day. I had a remarkable access to the world tea from my early day but one thing looking back is indeed astonishing, I never learned gongfu from them, never touched a gaiwan, and despite all of the hundreds of types of teas we sold I never drank one raw puer. The only puer they had was ripe. It blew my mind later on that they were missing any sort of raw puer representation. On the plus side I got a well rounded tea exposure drinking not just Chinese teas but Taiwanese, Japanese, Indian, Sri Lanken, African etc. I still have a couple of professional tea taster sets leftover from those days lol P.S. looking back I can say without a doubt that they were sourcing really good quality teas in those years too. From a German broker mostly. But I had the privilege of drinking super good quality Lung Ching, Assam golden tips the type you hardly ever see available anymore, gyokuro, ali shan, Darjeeling, and others that the quality was amazing and they were definitely losing money letting their staff and customers just drink up free samples day after day lol ahh good times

5:17 tea got you glitching 😂

Great video! Thanks for the knowledge

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Of course! Happy you enjoyed it. 🙏🏻

About 3 months ago I've had really bad acid reflux problems and eventually I cut out everything that can raise stomach acid, so my beloved sheng puers had to rest. I was still drinking aged shou meis tho. I've fully cleansed myself, but eversince I've started eating healthier, and started only drinking water besides tea, I feel like I can feel the effect of the teas way more than before when I've ate and drank many different unhealthy garbage. Had a good amount of 2009 loosely aged shou mei, tasted like aged honey, that tea sometimes made me feel like I've just finished a 20 min mediation, relaxed, yet very alert, clean, happy and fully in the flow.

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Verrrrry interesting about getting the other things out of the way. I said over and over this year I should cut out all drinks besides water and tea. I haven’t gotten there yet but I love that level up you had. Totally feel you with where aged shoumei can put you. It’s not the sexiest tea but it really just gets you there.

@caseyhenry

6 ай бұрын

@@TaoTeawareWhaaat?! Aged Shoumei is where it’s AT!! 🙌🙌🙌

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeahhhhh. I love my aged shoumei 🤤

Great video with great information, though I would like to add to your information. The key qualifier for the amount of caffeine that is in tea is the size of the leaves used. the smaller the more caffeine the leaf has. most red tea is made with small leaves or buds. Those contains 4% caffeine by weight. where as white teas are usually made with the larger mature leaves which comes out to 1% caffeine by weight. for example a jin jun mei/dian hong is going to get ppl bouncing off the walls as they are made with small leaves to buds. For good sleepy tea, I recommend (qian liang cha) 1000 taels tea, liu biao or liu an, or some shou pu-ers, there are some that have been infused with camphor wood or agar wood. it's the nuance of knowing if the tea leaves you have are small/young or large/mature leaves.

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Where are you getting the percentages of caffeine for the teas from?

I didn’t know tea drunkenness could be in safe!🤣 Thanks for shedding light on this! I first realized the effects of teas (as in the state they put my body into) when I had purchased my first silver needle tea. At the time, I was under the thought that all whites are low in caffeine, not knowing anything about how the tea was pick makes a significant difference. I thought it was a great option for nighttime and boy was I wrong, it tasted absolutely wonderful but it gave me the jitters and kept me up till pass midnight!🤣

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Yeahhhhh. It’ll hit you when you get that good good for sure 😭 Also a lot of lower grade white tea is mixed with herbs. I’m honestly very curious why… 🤔 White tea is my favorite type of tea and I’m usually drinking gongfu but it’s just curious that you can get black or green pure or mixed but whites not usually in tea bags. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great video. Also hojicha, kukicha and bancha make excellent evening teas with negligible caffeine levels.

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah good call. Do you ever drink hojicha straight? I still haven’t seem much “non latte” hojicha. I really need to dig more into Japanese teas 😅

@OwowMan4539

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah for sure. Drinking it straight is the way to go and you can use boiling water which is fun for Japanese teas. Makes an awesome cold brew too. Not trying to advertise or anything but Nio Teas offers a pretty decent sampler pack that comes with a kyusu. Pretty good spectrum of Japanese teas in that one and it really helped me get a basic understanding of Japanese tea.

@drezworthy

6 ай бұрын

@@TaoTeaware I recommend Hojicha from Kettl tea as well as Den's tea. There are actually loads of great hojichas out there.

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

No please do. We may actually have something in the works with Nio Teas so I’m excited to hear that. 🙏🏻👀

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Okay awesome. I’ll check them out.

imo green teas like gyokuro , dragonwell , etc get me very tea drunk i think because they have more caffeine and L-theanine

I have a 2010 Bing Dao Shou Puer that has one of my favorite body feels. Straight body sedation, alertness, and an insanely huge grin on my face. Gyokruo also has a consistently great chi

i dig this video

Shou puers give me the good feels. Most Shengs are either too wirey or hurt my stomach. I’ve had some aged or more delicate ones that I like but haven’t felt as much effect as I have with ripes.

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I think plenty of people including me can resonate with that. 🙃

i've had one really bad tea experience drinking anxi oolong on an empty stomach where i got extremely dizzy and my ability to recognise faces got completely fucked up for like 30 minutes

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Oh man that sounds really rough. I’ve never had anything that bad. Glad it only has happened to you once. 😬

Strong hong cha makes me want to fistfight ghosts.

@TaoTeaware

5 ай бұрын

I can’t tell if that’s a good thing or bad thing 😅

4:18 the video that you refer to and point at is not there on the screen…

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

4:20 it pops up on mine 😅 Can anyone else not see the link on the top right??

@squidvis

5 ай бұрын

It's popping up on mine. You might be used to the old way videos linked. Nowadays it's just a small black banner that pops up. I used to think they were subtle ads when that feature first came out. 😂

@caseyhenry

5 ай бұрын

@@squidvis Yeah, it was just that one time, and only on my iPad, so it must just have been some one-off glitch.

the product links just go to a broken 404 page, just an FYI

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

Got those updated! Thanks again Joey. 🙏🏻

He said pop lol he must be from the Midwest somewhere 😅....

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

They moved Buffalo to the Midwest last year it was a crazy time to be from Buffalo. 😂

@DNS-FRANK09

6 ай бұрын

@@TaoTeaware lol ok