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Pu'erh Tea
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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 45 sec

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  • “Found this in bulk at Whole Foods! I’m not big into puerh, so I kind of stumble through the steeping process a bit. Did a 20 second rinse that smelled very fishy and had me worried. Steeped it for...” Read full tasting note

From The Jasmine Pearl Tea Company

Extremely smooth for a black loose leaf Puerh (pronounced POO-ar), this tea is also known as a “ripe” or “cooked” Puerh. Robust and surprisingly tasty with milk, it is distinctly earthy with an unmistakable aged flavor.

The Yunnan province, in southern China, is the home of Puerh teas. Puerh begins life as a sun-dried green tea, known as maocha in Mandarin. This tea is piled, dampened, and covered, which allows the natural blend of bacteria and yeast to begin fermenting or composting the tea leaves. The leaf piles are turned regularly to maintain even fermentation. Eventually, a dark brown leaf is produced – a leaf which, if left in hot water for several minutes, brews up as dark as coffee.

Apart from the loose leaf version, several varieties of cakes, squares and bricks of compressed Puerh are available, ranging in size from a few grams to a half kilogram. These forms were once used as currency in the far reaches of the Chinese Republic and some isolated areas apparently still use them in barter today.

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1747 tasting notes

Found this in bulk at Whole Foods! I’m not big into puerh, so I kind of stumble through the steeping process a bit. Did a 20 second rinse that smelled very fishy and had me worried. Steeped it for under a minute after that and for the first half of my cup it tasted like new leather shoes… in a delightful sort of way. Probably helps that I’m into Irish whiskeys and like leather, peat and smoke flavors. The rest of the cup has a much more mellow taste, but it doesn’t loose the leather flavor. I’ll be steeping this some more throughout the day!

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205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 45 sec

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