2014 New Amerykah 2

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
Pu Erh Tea
Flavors
Apple, Apricot, Bitter, Butter, Cherry, Citrus Zest, Dates, Drying, Flowers, Grapefruit, Leather, Licorice Root, Peat, Pleasantly Sour, Plum, Sandalwood, Smoke, Straw, Tobacco, Wood, Apple Skins, Burnt Sugar, Fruity, Sweet, Thick, Floral, Green, Honey, Mineral, White Wine, Biting, Pepper, Sweet, Warm Grass, Vegetal, Wet Wood, Citrus, Grass, Meat
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Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 6 g 4 oz / 107 ml

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  • “Thought I had already finished this sample but found the remaining ~5g a few years ago. And have been hanging on to it. Today it called to say goodbye. New Amerykah 2 is everything it was before...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Starts a little bitter and rather cigarette-smoky. Fades to leather, which lingers. I feel hit by the energy immediately. After a few steeps, the tips of ears are warm and it feels like my eyes are...” Read full tasting note
  • “I couldn’t miss the chance to grab a full bing of this guy. It’s a high performer with its intense energy, clarity, mouthfeel, and complexity of flavors (Am I missing anything?). I was so impatient...” Read full tasting note
  • “One of my samples from a big W2T order! I really enjoyed this one. I used 7g of leaf with boiling water and my 120mL gaiwan. On my first session with this, I was a bit too rough on it, and it...” Read full tasting note
    88

From white2tea

n old arbor Menghai blend. Thick body, lingering kuwei [pleasant bitterness], and plenty of oomph. This tea is a continuation of last year’s 2013 New Amerykah. The blend is slightly different, focusing more on sweetness and body than on bitterness.

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127 tasting notes

Fairly light almost seemed like a fall harvest? If I really pushed it I tasted the sour citric bulang terrior but surprising tame for young sheng. I will have to try again in a week or so.

Flavors: Citrus, Pleasantly Sour

Cwyn

This one kicked my arse en I bought it last spring. She beat me up so bad I haven’t gone back for another go. Probably starting to turn, the first year is one of great change. Sour to me spells fermentation.

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493 tasting notes

First steeps were very mild but i knew its deceiving. on a 3rd steep it hit me. it is strong bitter tea but i like it a lot. only few months ago i probably wouldnt be able to drink it. Besides being bitter its incredibly smooth, even creamy. and there is a sweetness comes in the end of the sip. very happy i was able to try this sample. its a swap from Instagram member. i need to ask him if he is on Steepster.

http://instagram.com/p/zDHAkdBwip/

http://instagram.com/p/zDJrKMBwnW/

5g 95ml gaiwan 205 F
rinse/ pause/ flash steeps , then increased to 7-10-15 secs

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 95 ML
MzPriss

It’s punchy for sure. But I like it

Cwyn

I’m seriously thinking of push aging mine. There is no way I’m gonna live long enough for it to age naturally.

mrmopar

Cwyn, You can send it to me to age in the “pumidor”…

TeaBrat

I may skip this one, I have enough bitter shengs for now :D

Cwyn

Mr mopar, yeah I might do that.

MzPriss

I’m putting mine in the shengidor. When the shengidor is finished, which it almost is. Thanks mr mo!

paxl13

I’m on steepster and enjoying the NA2 right now :) I love that tea… I’d be curious to see how it aged out but honstly I’m about halfway throught the cake already :)

boychik

im picking it up with my next order ;)

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92 tasting notes

7g used.

The dry leaf aroma promises a very welcoming drink, with fairly strong green, herbal notes.

5s – Lots of flavour! Green, herby. Long green herby finish. Hardly any bitterness.
10s – Getting stronger on the flavour, in a pleasant way. It has some complexity which makes it very interesting to drink.

Later notes: There is a likeness to honey and lemon sachet drinks I have had before, without any of the sugary sweetness of course.

Preparation
7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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90
1758 tasting notes

This tea is really good. I find myself liking sheng more than ever before. It was a little fruity as the description says and there were slight notes of apricots. It was just a tiny bit bitter in the first steeping. This was gone by the second steeping. By the fourth steeping it was very smooth. It was slightly sweet too (not meaning sugar sweet). It was good.

I steeped this four times in a 140 ml yixing teapot with 5g leaf and 200 degree water. I steeped it for 15 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, and 20 sec. It had a very pale yellow color.

Flavors: Fruity

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 tsp 5 OZ / 140 ML

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89
155 tasting notes

I like this! I’m not finding it quite as punchy as some – it’s definitely in your face and all over the place. Yeah, it’s bitterish at first but not in a bad way and I LOVE the sweetness. Love it. It’s a baby now, but I think this is gonna be a badass in a few years.

There is an almost grapey flavor, but not quite. There is very little smoke, but some nice tobacco and it keeps getting sweeter.

I’m having a good time with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

SarsyPie

So glad you like it! I think it has a ton of potential!

MzPriss

I do too. Sarsy. We needs pumidors now.

SarsyPie

Oh jeez. I wonder what the usual humidity in my house is

MzPriss

I have no idea either. We need to huddle up with the puru and get some advice

SarsyPie

Good idea!

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88
278 tasting notes

This tea is a swift kick in the nuts. Woo!

The aroma is very light smoke, but very strong apricots. There are so many flavors that it’s hard to pick them all out. Let’s just say that everything blends together very nicely. It had a stronger bitter finish at first, but it’s only on certain sips and seems to be calming down. It’s not an unpleasant bitterness… it’s hard for me to explain. Some teas have a yucky bitterness that makes you go blargh. This is different. It’s quite nice.

I’m only on steep 3 and this already has my heart pumping. This tea assures me that I am ALIVE!

This was a great way to start the weekend!

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 5 OZ / 147 ML
TheTeaFairy

Lol, love me a good kick in nuts tea ;-) sounds great… And happy week end to you!

tantonino

Don’t see a kick in the nuts to be followed by a Woo everyday!

SarsyPie

Hahahaa!!! Well I think it gets the point across!

But if you need a different visual… did y’all ever see Super Troopers? And they are doing target practice and the one guy is wearing like a steel jock strap? That’s what I think this is like! LOL

mrmopar

Yep. That’s why I have one aging away. It’s a good one.

SarsyPie

Oh. I did not know it had the Chariman seal of approval, mrmopar :)

AllanK

I have yet to order from White2Tea. They are next on my list. Perhaps next month.

Cwyn

Yep this girl is one heavy tea. Can’t let my meower near it in case he lifts his leg.

Terri HarpLady

I haven’t looked into this company yet, but now I guess I’ll have too…

MzPriss

I think I’ll try this one next.

SarsyPie

White2 is so great!

MzPriss

I like this. It will be spectcaular in a few years

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85
1271 tasting notes

Technically from the reddit traveling tea box.

So, this pu’er is all YOLO. Seriously. This raw pu’er packs a punch – it’s strong, sweet yet acidic bitter, tobacco notes, hay, gritty, floral, thick, and creamy. Amazing aftertaste. Emphasis on strong flavor – I did 10 second steeps with this pu’er and it only needed to go up in time around the 12th round. This tea cannot be stopped! I got 16 infusions, with the late infusions getting mineral ambery, smokey, honey and floral. New Amerykah 2 is hella strong, but the later steepings are worth it. Might not be for a new pu’er drinker, this one certainly tested me!

BTW, Cwyn did a crazy awesome review of this pu’er – best review on Steepster, IMO.

My blog review – http://oolongowl.com/2014-new-amerykah-raw-pu-er/ Owl mustache!

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C
Sil

this sounds amazing..

Roughage

Love the owlstache, and great review too.

Cwyn

Omg I am big fan of your blog, was going to post on your Amerykah note there and then I saw the Follow Me on Steepster badge. Had a Facepalm moment. Anyway, I forgot what I was going to say now. All I can remember now is you have a blue teapot I want and haven’t been able to find a good one.

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290 tasting notes

I was lucky enough to be sent a sample of this by Paul at White2tea. It reminds me of ‘American Flagg’, especially the later ‘Amerikan Flagg’ reboot. Hmm, how do I do reversed Rs on here. I need some cyrillic, stat. I’m sure it’s just the name, and I have no idea if Paul is a Howard Chaykin fan but I cannot get that eighties comic goodness out of my head while drinking this. In fact, this issue best sums it all up:
http://www.comicvine.com/howard-chaykins-american-flagg-9-loose-women-and-b/4000-383555/
Shame I can’t post images here. That would be proper cool and make the point better.

The tea itself smells floral when dry and fruity when wet, and it has a proper kick to it. Cwyn has given an awesome review of it, so I really don’t feel I can add much more to that. I can feel the energy of this tea giving me a kick in the seat of the pants. My mouth has gone dry and prickly, the bitterness lingers in my throat and the rounded, full-on flavour lasts for ages. I’m working on 10 second steeps at 95C (the slider says boiling but that is because Steepster is not communicating properly with Chrome once more) at the moment because I put a lot of leaf in the pot and I am feeling slightly incoherent from the onset of tea drunk. I guess that makes this a party in a teapot. Mmmm …

Flavors: Floral, Fruity

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 10 g 4 OZ / 130 ML
Cwyn

Omg that link is funny! Twodog pointed out a YouTube vid of a singer named Amerykah. Yet the comic really does illustrate the gaudy slam you get from this tea.

Roughage

I used to love that comic way back when I was just a callow youth (or maybe a little bit older) but this tea is so dayglo 80s in so many ways that it reminded me of it. Took me a while to recall the title so I could get the right cover image though.

Cwyn

Exactly, and hence the early 80s high school references in my own notes, sooo funny.

Roughage

I think it is brilliant, as are your notes. The eighties were a terrible era according to so many people, but I totally had the best time of my life then (don’t tell my wife I said that!). :)

mrmopar

80’s were the bomb!

Cwyn

The kids all envy us nowadays.

mrmopar

How coincidental that 3 80’s children on the same site and same subject. Now the next question, anyone listened to Men at Work, The Who, The Kinks or REO Speedwagon lately?

Roughage

Not so much those bands, but I have had the Ramones and Dead Kennedys on endless repeat for a bit now. Does that count?

mrmopar

Oh yes I remember the Ramones and the Dead Kennedys. Those were great years to live in.

Roughage

Yes, a great decade.

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90 tasting notes

Oh my, this is a young chick of a tea with her thigh high boots and orange fur leopard trimmed midriff top on, popping apple gum to cover up the grilled burger she had for lunch. I bought this cake, I will admit it, primarily for the label. I am guessing Amerykah=America, but as it happens I was born and raised in a town called Amery. The label is pure video game except that the pixels also resemble cross stitch. This tea looks like home to me, and we had tacky chicks just like this! Except this chickitea is jailbait right now.

Having bought this cake, I happened to get a sample too in a recent order, so I am drinking the sample. Put all 10 g’s into the Yixing, water ranging from 100-115 ml (the max my cup holds). Sample I got is really tippy, lots of buds with some larger leaves, a couple leaf sets and some orange and red-brown leaves.

Two rinses and then first steep, and she kicked me into the row of lockers because I told her that her breath smelled like beef jerky. That first steep smelled like smoked meat. Liquor is dark tangerine. A few small burnt particles from the wok in my strainer. This smell was gone on subsequent steeps. Soup was cloudy until the fourth steep. Intensely bitter and astringent throughout, with cooling on the throat and down the hatch, or maybe I just opened the door to get some air from that hairspray.

Hints of floral and and sweet fruit want to come out of her young PMS, banging on the door saying “Let me out!” I don’t think so. Off to Lincoln Hills for this girl, the local population can’t handle this one. She can have a guitar…maybe in a few years she can play a few sweet notes for me. This definitely looks like a Menghai blend with far less smokiness than you normally get from plantation cakes or tuos. Good cake to age and get that Menghai flavor without the smoke. This is not a usual factory blend, so to me this seems far better than trying to buy a 7542.

Took her to six steeps, 10-15 seconds for all because I had so much leaf going. Still has further steeps to go, but I have had enough. This is an incredibly strong young Sheng, even my strong system is challenged with this one. Gonna need an old man shou later to balance this one out.

This tea will make a nice girlfriend for my son someday if he keeps on the monk track he is currently on. Not gonna rate this young gal yet, she is new with so much aging yet ahead.

Flavors: Apricot, Floral, Grass, Meat

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 10 g 4 OZ / 115 ML
apt

this is one of the best reviews i’ve read on here

Cwyn

Goodness, that is quite a compliment, thanks so much! Am drinking seltzer water atm. Not feeling sick, or anything, but this is the strongest young sheng I have ever had.

mrmopar

I got to try this one soon. It is currently re-hydrating in the pumidor.

Cwyn

You’ve been warned.

Roughage

I love this review. It is so picturesque and colourful. Superb. I am now looking forward to trying this tea and will approach it carefully.

Cwyn

Glad to hear a number of people have this, we can compare notes on this as it ages. I normally buy cakes that can be consumed now, just due to my age. The 2014 Manzhuan from White2Tea is one that is fantastic currently. I probably won’t be around to taste the Amerykah when the tea is fully aged!

TwoDog2

I love this review.

And as for the Amerykah, here is the chick:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ALNb4maWNoT6RcDP39dvV96m-kNgnsKQ_Z

Cwyn

Wow, I wasn’t that far off. YouTube won’t let me watch this on IPad for some reason, gonna have to fire up the Xbox. You might actually know of Lincoln Hills in Irma, it was the big bad threat during high school for naughty girls, “oh, she got sent to Lincoln Hills.”

Rich

This might be the best review ever posted on Steepster…

TwoDog2

I agree with Rich. We can nominate it for a “Steepstee: Best Review Ever” award

tanluwils

What a great read! I enjoyed reading this very much. It seems there are still a few cakes left at W2T and I am now considering adding it to my make-shift cardboard sheng box. Have you tried the tea since? If so, how has it evolved?

Cwyn

I have not tried it. Mainly now my interest is in a strong tea that can take storage experiments if needed.

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