i ordered some puerh.
would it help or not to use a clean coffee grinder to pulverize the
leaf?
then it would be like teabag leaf size ?

would this get more flavour out, or be more bitter ?

yes,
i am new to puerh
alan

sjones12@cogeco.ca writes:

I'm afraid that would make it considerably more bitter. That's
assuming you have ordered raw/green/sheng Pu'er, not
cooked/black/shu. If you have the latter, bitterness might not be
much of an issue. In any case getting more flavor out of the leaves
isn't usually a problem; many people find Pu'er too strong, if anything.

Then maybe you'd like to introduce yourself to it gently?

/Lew

I would also suppose that pulverizing the leaf would ruin one of the
great aspects of puer, which is that you can brew the same leaves over
and over and get a whole bunch of different cups of tea with just a
few grams of leaf. You can do the same with oolong, but puer tends to
have more staying power in my experience. With tea dust, as you find
in tea bags or finely chopped leaves even, I think the flavors would
leach out much more quickly and you wouldn't get nearly as much
enjoyment or value out of the tea.

cha bing

On Apr 3, 5:42 am, sjone...@cogeco.ca wrote:

Be kind. Keep the coffee grinder far away from the pu-er.
:")
Kevo

On Apr 2, 5:42 pm, sjone...@cogeco.ca wrote:

You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

Alex wrote:

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

-DM

On Apr 4, 7:45 am, DogMa worldnet.att.net> wrote:

I think it is a herb pulverizer...

kevo

DogMa worldnet.att.net> writes:

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew

On Apr 4, 10:27 am, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:

On Apr 4, 8:17 am, "Dominic T." gmail.com> wrote: