Let me start by saying this; Very interesting….
Dry Smell: Like fresh horse poop.
Wet: when water was first added it smelled like rancid fish, after it finished steeping it smelled similar to musty cucumber water.
It tastes like cucumber water. Very strong cucumber water that also happens to have a little bit of a bit in it. I don’t really like cucumber or cucumber water at all, so this is… Well interesting. Could have been worse though, but it could have been a lot better. Might steep it again later and see how it is though.
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Lol, that is some description. It may be a storage issue. A few years ago I had Adagio’s ‘Yunnan Golden Pu Erh’… expensive and awful. Smelled like dried fermented fish, once I poured water into it it was fishy and musky.
I had this in the beginning of my journey. Sour. I’d suggest that if you can’t hack it, steep longer, add cream and sugar and see if you like it as a latte. If not. Adios. Sometimes you can’t salvage what isn’t very good. But, if I had stopped here I wouldn’t have discovered that I love shu pu-erh. There’s a world of great non-fishy pu-erh to drink!
Mehhh I wasn’t big on this one. Tasted too fishy without the depth of flavor I want from a pu’erh.
Yeah I was hoping for something good from this since I have had other pu’erh that have been heavenly. Though I figure I’ll just never get pu’erh from Adagio again since I had the one from their masters collection and that…. well lets just say I am glad I didn’t spend money on this or that one.
Eeeeewwwww…
Lol, that is some description. It may be a storage issue. A few years ago I had Adagio’s ‘Yunnan Golden Pu Erh’… expensive and awful. Smelled like dried fermented fish, once I poured water into it it was fishy and musky.
I had this in the beginning of my journey. Sour. I’d suggest that if you can’t hack it, steep longer, add cream and sugar and see if you like it as a latte. If not. Adios. Sometimes you can’t salvage what isn’t very good. But, if I had stopped here I wouldn’t have discovered that I love shu pu-erh. There’s a world of great non-fishy pu-erh to drink!
Mehhh I wasn’t big on this one. Tasted too fishy without the depth of flavor I want from a pu’erh.
Yeah I was hoping for something good from this since I have had other pu’erh that have been heavenly. Though I figure I’ll just never get pu’erh from Adagio again since I had the one from their masters collection and that…. well lets just say I am glad I didn’t spend money on this or that one.
Eeeeewwwww…