Mastodawn

Today is the second day of the Berlin Tea Festival!

Here is a list of exhibitors as a thread 🧵

#BerlinTeaFestival #BTF2025 #Berlin #TeaFestival #Tea #TeaLovers #TeaCommunity #TeaCulture #TeaEvent #TeaCeremony #TeaTasting #TeaJourney #TeaExploration #TeaPassion #TeaWorld #TeaGathering #Cha #shengpuerh #wulong #oolong #greentea #blacktea

Eko Sep 24

I was recently craving Dong Ding oolong, so I had Nari Tea's one, made from the Si Ji Chun cultivar in Nantou, Taiwan 🏔️

The dry leaf aroma reminded me of chocolate cereals in rich milk, as well as orange peel and dark honey.
The tea broth aroma was floral (lilac) and slightly milky, and the tea itself tasted of floral honey, with mineral and roasted notes.

It's sometime hard for me to taste the charcoal roast in a tea, but I've been trying to pay more attention to it when drinking tea lately, and this time I think I was able to grasp it.

Fun fact : I drank Nari's Dong Ding for the first time last December, and when I went back to check my notes, I saw that I had already noticed the chocolate cereals aroma in the dry leaves back then! That's such a specific one, I wouldn't have expected to get it consistently, but I did! 🍫

#tea #DongDing #oolong #wulong #TaiwaneseTea #gongFuCha #teaTime #Nari #NariTea #DongDingOolong #茶 #功夫茶 #工夫茶 #乌龙茶

Bob Nicholls Art Feb 4, 2025

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Zoom into my Wulong reconstruction, from 2021. This was the press release artwork for a paper describing "The iridescent plumage in a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur" (Croudace et al).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Wulong #Raptors #Dromaeosaurs

Bob Nicholls Art Feb 4, 2025

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

and we flap into 2021 with Wulong bohaiensis, from Early Cretaceous China. This was the press release artwork for a paper describing "The iridescent plumage in a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur" (Croudace et al).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Wulong #Raptors #Dromaeosaurs

Erik Ellestad May 5, 2024

Gold Magnolia Dancong from White2Tea is a Lighter roast, lighter oxidation oolong. Varietal is "jin yu lan". I should maybe have drunk it sooner, it is a little shy about its flavor.

#DancongOolong #Oolong #Wulong #White2Tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea

Gersande La Flèche Apr 21, 2024

#SilentSunday #tea #oolong #wulong

Erik Ellestad Jan 16, 2024

Second tea from the White2Tea 2023 rock oolongs, "meizhan". According to their website, meizhan is usually heavily represented in "da hong pao" blends, but this is pure meizhan. Fairly heavy roast and oxidation, this is a pretty serious rock oolong.

#RockOolong #Yancha #White2Tea #Oolong #Wulong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea

Erik Ellestad Dec 31, 2023

The 2021 Stone Milk from White2Tea is another lighter roast/oxidation style rock oolong, making it quite fragrance forward.

#RockOolong #Yancha #Oolong #Wulong #White2Tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea

Erik Ellestad Dec 10, 2023

2022 release Spring Peach rock oolong from White2Tea. This is good, but it is my least favorite of their 2022 rock oolongs. Something about the roast/oxidation/flavor just doesn't quite do it for me. I do prefer heavier oxidation/roast levels and Spring Peach is on the lighter-medium side for both. Also, tea monster has returned, recovered from his cat accident broken foot. Here's hoping it holds up to future pours!

#Yancha #RockOolong #Oolong #Wulong #White2tea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea

Erik Ellestad Nov 29, 2023

2021 Superfine (tèjí) Rou Gui from Old Ways Tea Company. Phil and Mengjiao from Old Ways seem like super nice people AND they ship their teas from near me in California. How could I NOT order and try their rock oolongs?

#RockOolong #Yancha #OldWaysTeaCompany #Oolong #Wulong #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @tea