2015 Brown Sugar Ripe Puerh

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
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Flavors
Grass, Mineral, Sweet, Wood, Coffee, Earth, Pleasantly Sour, Spices, Camphor, Molasses, Peat, Burnt Sugar, Leather, Mushrooms, Decayed Wood, Dirt, Moss, Smooth, Wet Wood, Creamy, Dark Bittersweet, Thick, Honey, Tobacco, Bitter, Bread, Brown Sugar, Dried Fruit, Chocolate
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Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec 7 g 4 oz / 120 ml

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Ripe Puer Tea from White2tea, made using 2012 material, pressed in 2015.

This tea is made from a pile fermented exclusively with top tier huangpian [the largest leaf used in Puer production]. The Brown Sugar brick has Menghai character. The soup is sweet and smooth. It was rested for over two years prior to pressing and is ready to drink now or store for the long term. The material used is of uncommonly high quality. Later steeps are light in color, with a sweet and soft profile.

The fermentation level of this tea was around 65%, which is considered light. Some leaves may even be slightly greenish, and will continue to become darker with further aging.

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10 tasting notes

Smooth, rich, and earthy, truly a wonderful tea. I would certainly recommend Brown Sugar.

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358 tasting notes

Crap…I forgot to save my note yesterday. Been wanting to attempt to drink more shou lately, so I brought a couple to work for the week. This was today’s pick, and I threw a rather huge chunk into a pretty small gaiwan, gave it a couple of rinses to help it start to open up and then proceeded with flash steeps.

Liquor was a transparent brown to start with a light flavor hinting at the deeper mushroom and earthy notes that were soon to come. Quickly darkened to an opaque, deep brown with a mushroomy earth flavor. The texture is indeed thick and smooth with a nice creaminess. Eventually the earthiness evolves into a more pronounced soil-like flavor with a hint of bitterness and a kind of mineral finish.

I am among those that feel there’s not really that much sweetness to this one (yet), but it still has a nice, appreciable flavor profile and an excellent mouthfeel. Good, easy drinking experience!

Flavors: Creamy, Dark Bittersweet, Earth, Mineral, Mushrooms, Smooth, Thick

Preparation
Boiling 11 g 2 OZ / 50 ML

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400 tasting notes

Thick, smooth, semi-earthy, & creamy. The liquor is dark. I can drink this for a long while. Currently working through my 15th infusion, with longer steeping times (90-120s for the meantime). This tea can go on, & on, & on, & on….

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106 tasting notes

Opens up a bit thin, a light neon pink-ish orange. I didn’t bother breaking up the compressed chunk I got as a sample from my teafriend, though, so it did take a while to loosen up.

Once it’s gotten underway, however, Brown Sugar brews up dark, thick, and oily, with a slick balm feeling. It’s got a bit of sweet upfront flavor and has an interesting hint of molasses aftertaste that is what it’s named for, I’m guessing, but (un)surprisingly, the shou earthiness is the dominant flavor. It very lightly coats the throat over time and leaves a refreshing, cooling sensation by the middle steeps that I can feel in my ears.

My sample seems to have cleared overall, no real funk after the first steep and the long rinse. It does seem to lack depth despite the heavy taste profile, but it’s not unpleasant for it. A good mindless tea as it’s not very bitter and won’t amplify terribly much if you forget about it for a while while brewing. The flavor profile is also pretty upfront and hard to miss, so you can sip or chug without much thought and not miss much.

Flavors: Dark Bittersweet, Earth, Molasses

Preparation
Boiling 9 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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485 tasting notes

My first shou in a while – I think I picked a good one! Good shou is good – I’ve had enough bad shou for a lifetime I believe. This one had almost no dampness in the aroma or flavor. It was sweet, smooth, and thick, with woody and honey notes. Lasted a good 8 or 9 steeps producing near black liquor before starting to lighten up.

Flavors: Honey, Sweet, Thick, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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266 tasting notes

Shiboridashi brewed gongfu style. The main things that stand out is that it is smooth enough to have a thicker feel in your mouth. The tea is also on the sweet side (for a shou) that goes along nicely with the texture. This is not a casual brewing tea. If you use more casual style brewing it does not come off as that impressive. So your care in brewing is literally the make or break factor for this tea.

Preparation
Boiling

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26 tasting notes

From a 25g sample. I found this very smooth and a bit sweet. Lots of woody/earthy notes but they blended in and formed more of a background rather than being assertive and upfront. The taste did not change much steeping to steeping but just slowly faded.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 0 min, 15 sec 8 g 4 OZ / 120 ML

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31 tasting notes

I found this to be as good as the hype, however i didn’t find this Pu sweet much so not sure where the sugar comes in, but it’s velvet in the mouth, medium thick teasoup and no off putting anything. a solid every day pu with woody malty cocoa mocha and strong black tea notes, at least for me.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 6 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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14 tasting notes

So its been a while since I’ve had a review on here. Too busy with work and other stuff. I wish I could review more. I have time for this one. Thankfully, because it would be a crime not to let other fellow steepsterites just how good this one is, IMHO, of course. It is a very smooth shou. It has pretty much no fermentation to it. I do get some slight tobacco notes towards the finish. Nothing to harsh, don’t get scared by that if that’s not your thing. You may not even be able to tell them if you smoke cigars or anything like that. I feel this tea does better at about 200° instead of boiling. The leaves are bigger than I’m used to seeing in shous. The aroma from it is very nice and easy on the nose. Overall, I am really digging this one. I will definitely be buying this one again. No doubt about it. Gets you some!

Flavors: Tobacco

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 15 sec 10 g 5 OZ / 160 ML

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89 tasting notes

I tried Brown Sugar multiple times and each time, it’s carries too much of a punch. This tea is smooth, but I think it still has a while to go. There’s light notes of sweetness that I think will continue to come out over time.

I did like the quality of leaves this tea had tho.

You can read a full review on my blog – http://coolcodyc.wix.com/theoolongdrunk#!Dont-Get-Cavities-on-Brown-Sugar/c21kp/5721092c0cf269c350f1bc68

Flavors: Bitter, Moss, Sweet, Wood

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