OK. Last one from the pu-erh sample pack.
The dry tea smells super gingery, very similar to David’s super ginger which I really like.
After brewing, the smell is of ginger and fish pu-erh. I almost had to throw it out due to the smell. I let it cool a bit and tasted. It initially has a moderate ginger flavour. It is enough that you can feel the burn on your tongue. At the end of the sip, I am getting that fish/seaweed/canned mushroom pu-erh flavour.
Overall thoughts on the David’s tea Pu-erh sampler: I am glad it was only a sampler; I do not like David’s tea pu-erh base, or the pu-erh tea blends (with the exception of Berry Good which looks to contain not much actually tea leaf); I found most of the blends to not really blend together and each flavour came out at a different point in the sip; I’m glad its over and have congratulated myself for trying even though I knew I most likely would like and ended up not liking.
I feel like I have conquered a mountain. I would like to say that I am now more sophisticated and worldy, but I know that is far from reality, I am still going to pretend though.
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oh dear— no part of puerh should be fish, seaweed or mushroom soup! i wonder if you would like silk road’s green puerh…? personally i’d really like to try persimmon tree’s honeysuckle… it just might not be your thing. i can’t abide rooiboos.
I am not completely writing off pu-erh, I can’t say if I have ever had good pu-erh, but at this point I have no desire to even explore it. I just think it is not to my taste at this point in my tea life.
a completely fair statement. i have reached that point with rooiboos. no matter how nice it smells as soon as it hits my tongue ‘nope’ becomes the operative word.
oh dear— no part of puerh should be fish, seaweed or mushroom soup! i wonder if you would like silk road’s green puerh…? personally i’d really like to try persimmon tree’s honeysuckle… it just might not be your thing. i can’t abide rooiboos.
I am not completely writing off pu-erh, I can’t say if I have ever had good pu-erh, but at this point I have no desire to even explore it. I just think it is not to my taste at this point in my tea life.
a completely fair statement. i have reached that point with rooiboos. no matter how nice it smells as soon as it hits my tongue ‘nope’ becomes the operative word.