Homestyle 2016 Lao Cha Tou Ripe Puer from Bitterleaf Teas

Homestyle 2016 Lao Cha Tou Ripe Puer

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea Leaves
Flavors
Alcohol, Burnt Sugar, Cacao, Overripe Cherries, Wet Earth, Wet Wood, Brandy, Dates, Earth, Leather, Petrichor
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Average preparation
Boiling 1 min, 0 sec 8 g 6 oz / 180 ml

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There’s nothing quite as comforting as sitting down with a fresh brew of our Homestyle Lao Cha Tou ripe puer. If this were a TV commercial we would cue images of old friends chatting over a cup, feet up by the fire, or perhaps a fresh load of laundry from the drier. Then you would truly understand how this tea will give you the warm fuzzies from the inside out, with a creamy cocoa taste and even a hint of cherry.

This tea can be brewed regularly with a gaiwan or teapot, or as we prefer, boiled. For boiling, add some partially brewed or fresh Lao Cha Tou, water, then bring to a boil until the soup colour has reached desired consistency, whether it be a bright red or motor oil black. With a tea this smooth, there’s no wrong way to make it.

If this is your first time cooking up Lao Cha Tou, then don’t be alarmed if they don’t break up when brewing. That’s just how they like it, and that works just fine for us.

This tea is sold in 40g units.

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I’m enjoying this ripe pu’erh. It’s warming and comforting, without being too soporific. Under the baker’s chocolate and cherries is an undertone of something funky and boozy: maybe it’s a dark porter or stout.

Don’t worry about over-brewing it: with the compacted nuggets of tea, it doesn’t even begin to brew until it’s been steeping about twice as long as you’d expect a normal ripe pu’erh cake to take.

I’m drinking it out of a yixing clay pot, which I think helps keep the heat over the long infusion times for later infusions.

One minor issue: the mouthfeel isn’t as thick as it could be.

Flavors: Alcohol, Burnt Sugar, Cacao, Overripe Cherries, Wet Earth, Wet Wood

Preparation
Boiling 1 min, 0 sec 8 g 6 OZ / 180 ML
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More grandpa style BLT.

I got to share this one with the coworker who has been sharing his BLT sheng collection with me; it was cool because he not only hadn’t tried this before but he hadn’t tried ANY lao cha tou before. It was a whole new category of tea for him! That’s always a cool thing to watch/experience. I love that element of discovery and fascination…

This la cha tou just keeps giving too! I drank this literally throughout my WHOLE eight hour work day and the only reason I stopped was because it was time for me to go home. I swear, this tea was still ready to keep going hard but I just had to call it done. It’s very smooth though, really sweet for a pu’erh with great date, jujube, “fig newton”, overripe cherry type notes – all the stuff in that wheelhouse. And of course earthy, too. It’s a very clean flavour though, that just sneakily hooks you in with how many interesting little nuances there are to it without it being over the top and necessarily very “bold”.

Love it.
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