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So I brew a lot of leaf at once to really make the flavor come out for a review. I don’t know if I would brew this strong otherwise but if you do it comes out a dark ruby red, that reminds me of hibiscus tea. The honeysuckle aspect combined with a mouthwatering tartness and a rich sweet smell make me think this tea tastes like plums, or other stone fruit.
When you brew it this strong it wakes you right up which is good.
The sliders on this site are almost impossible to operate on mobile and we really just need a text field. I brewed it at 185 degrees freedom for 4 minutes but I couldn’t wrangle the slider with my thumb.

I have been told all Oolongs are “black dragon” because that’s what “oolong” means.
Tea is like a roasty golden brown color, tight bunched leaves that unfurl to be huge.

Idk about these tasting notes, this one is hard for me to define. Seems like a high roast gunpowderlike green tea but I guess it is an oolong. It’s nice, not astringent or bitter. It’s a little vegetal but I dig it. Very light subtle flavors that you need to be in the right mood for, this tea isn’t for rousing the dead like a boiled CTC or something.

Thick brew, dark for a green, almost amber. Slight smell of veggies, like seaweed, and some toastiness. I may mix this with mugicha. Would be decent with honey. Sweet honeysuckle taste, with a little bitterness after. Don’t brew this one too long or it gets far more bitter. It is weird, the leaves are not curled tightly like a gunpowder tea.

This is such a wonderful tea if you get to know it. It’s so sweet and floral and kinda rich in the mouth like hibiscus tea. Wake up and taste the scent of it.

This is only the third Puer style tea I have tried, but if it were the only one it might have put me off the style. This is a review of an infusion after a 1 minute “rinse” infusion, which I discarded because it smelled like pile flavor.

This is another shou puerh, and it seems like it’s maybe not high quality given how cheap it was, $8.50USD for 227 grams at the Vietnamese grocery store, which should have been a red flag, but I have heard this brand being described as decentm. It comes in a big plastic bag that is not resealable. The leaves are pretty huge, which is odd.

Color of the liquor is very dark brown, almost black.

Flavor is okay. Not very complex. Smooth, mild flavor kind of like other shou Puerh I have tried, but not many of the more complex notes, at least on the first try. I would need to get to know this tea to say more. There is a slight rainwater or pondwater note to it, like the green and wet smell of water with algae in it, is maybe the worst aspect. But it is rich and soothing like other puerhs. It seems to have a fair amount of caffeine in it. The aftertaste is almost citrusy, from the tea oils.

Overall not a great tea, but perfectly serviceable. The tin says “Yunnan Pu Er” and it does indeed seem to be a Puerh style tea, that probably did come from somewhere in Yunnan province, although there is no other indicator of quality. If you gamble on this expecting a really high quality tea you will be disappointed, but if you temper your expectations you will probably enjoy this tea alright.

This is NOT a basic tea, I was just underleafing it. It needs a lot more leaf to bring out its flavor, don’t be afraid to brew 5 grams for 300g water. It’s got lots of great notes like the brown sugar and the cherry juice and it even smells bready/yeasty to me. Would be amazing with a flaky pastry. A very solid tea and it makes me want to go to Akuressa to try it there.

Whoa. This tea is crazy different at the right temperature. I had been overcooking the heck out of it. This is a review of technically the second infusion, after a 40 second “rinse” with 90ml of water at 190F, also brewed at 190F.

Smells: land after rain, like freshness and loamy soil, but in a good, tasty way, like a good mulch is supposed to smell. It’s got a floral aspect to it as well I think, probably the tea oils I am smelling.

It’s more complex at this temperature & really has less of the previously mentioned nutty/smoky flavor notes. The pile flavor is also gone when brewed like this. Definitely going to do it this way from now on. Really liking the precision that the coffee scale and pourover kettle are giving me. Probably was underleafing this, 5g:150ml seems like a good ratio, but maybe I will experiment with my little Hario and my gaiwan.