Oh, huang pian, how you flummox and befuddle me. I huangpianed twice before Fade, the first time on some Jingmai sheng from Chawangshop that tasted ok but was a bit too much with the florals, which often seems to disagree with me, gastrically speaking. Then there was Brown Sugar. Sugar? Not so much. Brown Hydrochloric Acid more like. Now, I like a deep, dark, sweet, motor-oil-like shu as much as the next person, but this stuff was like a footballer doing a slide tackle into my gallbladder, studs up. So when the Fade came I was concerned, but I went ahead and had it anyway because there was 200g of it and the wrapper just looked like it needed opening. Fade. What can I say about Fade? Well, I saved it for my 100th tasting note, so that says something.

I’m a Bosch freak, and yes I taste the Bosch in here in a big way. Funny thing is, everyone kept talking about how tea drunk they got on the stuff, and I’d had it about five times and not once was it anything more to me than a very pleasant Boschy cuppa yummy. As it happens, the arrival of the Fade brick coincided with the arrival of a new 50ml gaiwan from Teaware.house, with which I was immediately enamored and began to use almost exclusively for several weeks. Thing is, a 50ml gaiwan holds about 2g of huang pian, give or take. You see where I’m going with this. So tonight I decided to go big or go home. Well, I am home already, so big. My largest sheng pot, the one I use for aged stuff, is 80ml. The other one is 75ml. I usually brew no more than 4g of anything. So…… I’m teadrunk as shit right now, about 750ml in (that’s about 25 ounces for the metrically impaired) because I brewed up 10g in a 150ml shibo. Like, all at once.

shit damn motherfucker (oops, wrong tea?) This stuff smells so frickin good! Seriously, I would like a small Fade atomizer I can take with me to work, so that when some idiot starts dancing on my last nerve, I can give myself a little spritz and feel right as rain again, and not have to suppress the urge to choke a fool.

I feel like I’ve been writing this review for hours.

I took some photographs. Here’s what 10g of HP looks like, not even steeped out yet:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEzieiPmgF6/?taken-by=curlygc

Here’s my big fatassed shibo with his enforcers from the Empire, staring down my little sheng pots:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEzir0AmgGT/?taken-by=curlygc

Here’s another of Shibozilla eating a 50ml gaiwan as an appetizer while the sheng pots run away yelling “run away!”:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEzix1rGgGf/?taken-by=curlygc

Best part is that my tummy is fine, so far. Or if this tea is eating a hole in my intestines, I sure can’t feel it. Now off I go; I have about another 450ml to brew up before I can say I drank a 40 of Fade and lived to tell about it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEzjH_FmgHQ/?taken-by=curlygc

Kirkoneill1988

so i assume it is a strong tea?

curlygc

I’m not really sure to be honest. Some people think it is. I think probably drinking that much of any sheng is going to have an effect on me. I was bouncing off the walls, lol. I’ve definitely gotten tea smashed off less of other teas though (Tuhao is one for sure)

Kirkoneill1988

interesting :D

Cwyn

Fun note! I didn’t get very tea drunk either.

Haveteawilltravel

Hahaha this review makes me happy xD

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Kirkoneill1988

so i assume it is a strong tea?

curlygc

I’m not really sure to be honest. Some people think it is. I think probably drinking that much of any sheng is going to have an effect on me. I was bouncing off the walls, lol. I’ve definitely gotten tea smashed off less of other teas though (Tuhao is one for sure)

Kirkoneill1988

interesting :D

Cwyn

Fun note! I didn’t get very tea drunk either.

Haveteawilltravel

Hahaha this review makes me happy xD

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For many years I drank cheap asian market-bought oolongs because I really didn’t know what was out there. For the last year or so I’ve been educating myself and making a foray into better quality teas. During the course of my journey I have fallen hard down the puerh rabbit hole – it started with young sheng, but now there’s another even deeper hole in the aged category, and I may be careening down this particular rabbit hole forever. I do still find time for aged oolong, a good wuyi yancha, and the occasional aged white.

I stopped rating teas awhile ago. I guess the numbers stopping meaning anything after awhile. For a long time I was pretty good about keeping my cupboard up to date and reviewing teas, mostly to help me keep track and remember what I like. I’ve gotten lazy about that for the last several months.

The tea addiction has also spawned a new addiction to throwing pottery, and I have become mildly obsessed with making tea cups, shibos, and teapots.

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