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Product Name |
2003 Brown Changtai Dual Stamps without Barcode (a.k.a. Dual Secret Stamps Brown Changtai)(Dry Storage 357g) |
Factory |
Changtai Tea Shop |
Ingredient |
Puerh (Puer / Pu-erh) |
Nature |
Raw Tea (Sheng Puerh) |
Year of Production |
2003 |
Storage |
Dry Storage |
Weight |
357g per one tea cake (+/-10g including wrapping paper) |
Stack (Tong) |
Seven tea cakes in one bamboo stack |
Availability |
Available at Cloud's Tea House Retail Store & Online Store, available while stock lasts. |
2003~2004 Brown Changtai Dual Stamps without Barcode (a.k.a. Dual Secret Stamps Brown Changtai) (Dry Storage)
Cloud is able to draw a conclusion that those wrapped Brown Changtai tea cakes without “Barcode” are believed to be an earlier batch than those with “Barcode”.
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[The high-ended daily tea - Dual Secret Stamps Brown Changtai]
For 2003~2004 Changtai Tea Shop Brown Changtai Hao (Dual Secret Stamps) Banna Seven-son Raw Tea Cake, Cloud will name it in short as “The Dual Secret Stamps Brown Changtai”. This was the Little Jinggu wild tea being compressed during 2003~2004. This version is the most circulated edition in the market. It has elegant, sweet and thick tea broth together with the traditional Puerh tea aftertaste. It also has a great aging potential. Since the Dual Secret Stamps Brown Changtai is currently at its low price (i.e. inexpensive) in terms of its long aging time, it is the best budget Puerh tea today. It is very suitable for today’s instant appreciation and collection. It's aged for 21 years already, it is definitely a high-ended daily tea, as a gift idea / luxury tea enjoyment with friends & family.
as its name suggests, is the tea cake with a brown wrapping paper under the brand of “Changtai Hao”. The Brown Changtai tea cakes were manufactured by Changtai Tea Shop (renamed as Changtai Tea Group thereafter), between 2003 and 2004 (different manufacturing period for different batches).
means the stamp being sealed on the trademark ticket, which is embedded in the tea cake. Except for the Changtai Tea Group, it is believed that no one can interpret the meaning of the stamps. There are some Brown Changtai tea cakes with a single stamp on the trademark ticket, they are called “Single Stamp”; and there are some with two stamps, they are called “Dual Stamps”. The “Stamp” is the most concrete evidence to prove the year of production because the trademark ticket was tightly attached on the tea cake. You must firstly identify the “Stamp” to tell the batches.
is the product barcode and product details being printed on the wrapping paper at the back of the wrapped Brown Changtai tea cake. In the past decades, there was no regulation to guide the product barcode or product description. Those wrapped Brown Changtai tea cakes without “Barcode” are believed to be an earlier batch than those with “Barcode”.
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Therefore, Cloud is able to draw a conclusion that those wrapped Brown Changtai tea cakes without “Barcode” are believed to be an earlier batch than those with “Barcode”.
The manufacturing period of Dual Stamps Brown Changtai was in the middle of the entire batch of Brown Changtai between 2003 and 2004. Since it was the transitional period of using different wrapping papers, you will notice that the Dual Stamps Brown Changtai tea cakes were wrapped by two different types of wrapping paper, i.e. without the Barcode (earlier batch) or with the Barcode (later batch).
The article written by Cloud☁️ in issue No.73 of Chinese Tea Magazine, Puerh Teapot Magazine.
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The Early Great Tea Ordered By Changtai Tea Shop (Before 2004)
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Brewing Tool:
Use a tea bowl (Gaiwan) or a purple clay teapot.
Amount of Tea leaves:
10g or one third of the brewing utensil's volume.
Before you brew:
Rinse it with boiled water once, it will not be drunk and thus will not be counted as the first infusion.
Brewing method:
Add boiled water and brew for:-
5 seconds (1st infusion),
10 seconds (2nd infusion),
15 seconds (3rd infusion),
20 seconds (4th infusion),
30 seconds (5th infusion),
45 seconds (6th infusion),
60 seconds (7th infusion),
90 seconds (8th infusion),
and brew it as many times as you want until the tea broth is not strong enough.
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Storage means the Conditions of the Tea Cakes
“Storage” of Puerh tea always confuses novices. Warehouse means the place for storing stuff or stocks. However, the Dry Storage, Natural Storage and Wet Storage of Puerh tea are not referring to the storage conditions of the warehouse. In fact, Dry, Natural and Wet Storage are the terms for describing the storage status (i.e. ageing condition) of the tea cake itself. In other words, these 3 terms are referring to the degree of wetness of a tea cake. If a tea cake is affected by high humidity, we will describe it as “Wet Storage”. If a tea cake is affected by low humidity, we will describe it as “Dry Storage”.
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Health functions of Puerh tea
In the famous Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica (《本草綱目拾遺》) written by Zhao Xuemin (1765, the Qing dynasty), Puerh tea was described as "the first choice to refresh people's brain from too much drink, effective in promoting digestion and reducing phlegm, clearing away the stomach-heat and producing the body fluid. In particular, it tastes mild and slightly sweet, good for dispelling fats and detoxification, and promoting inner circulation.”
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