I haven’t had many “raw” puerh teas, but I think that I don’t care for them.
I’ve done 2 steeps and a rinse, and even though I’m keeping the times shorter (10-30 seconds), there’s a bite to the end of the sip and a weird smokiness to the taste.
TBH, it smells REALLY good. Like wood and a green forest. The dry leaves smell amazing as well. But the bitterness is just not something I ever want in the teas I drink. This is why I prefer lower temperatures for steeping my black teas. Astringency? Fine. Bitterness? Milk, please. But milk would really not go with the foresty cedar mineral flavour of this.
I’ll do a couple more steeps, but I don’t think it will (by my tastebuds) improve.
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poke me to send you a couple that were enjoyable…like in the new year lol
…maybe. I’m trying to shrink my cupboard and you seem to be happy trying to grow it! :P
haha yes but pu samples are teeeeeny…. just enough for one session
also…. i feel like my cupboard is about to get big. And i have no small samples to sipdown quickly..
Hahaha. Teeny = many many steeps of many-ness. Lots of sloshing.
You will have small samples to sipdown quickly!
poke me to send you a couple that were enjoyable…like in the new year lol
…maybe. I’m trying to shrink my cupboard and you seem to be happy trying to grow it! :P
haha yes but pu samples are teeeeeny…. just enough for one session
also…. i feel like my cupboard is about to get big. And i have no small samples to sipdown quickly..
Hahaha. Teeny = many many steeps of many-ness. Lots of sloshing.
You will have small samples to sipdown quickly!