1113 Tasting Notes
I am not going to explain this experience… you, yes you who is reading this, should try this yourself.
What I will inform you of is this: This is the Japanese equivalent to pu’er and is very interesting because it steeps for 10 minutes before it is ready to be drank.
I may or may not have a little extra that I would be willing to trade… what you should be thinking is “who will I drink this with?”
Was so looking forward to this…
Before: https://instagram.com/p/3KQaLqxYBP/
After: https://instagram.com/p/3Km37cxYFT/
Tea evaluation is in the after picture caption
Oh dang! Sad to hear! I have samples coming from her. Hope I have better luck with mine.
Did you order this one too? I’m curious as to how others would rate it. The caramel chunks are just huge.
I didn’t. I wanted to see what you thought first.
I sent a request for samples of:Vanilla Spiced Pear,Lady Grey, and Gin & Tonic. Hopefully she will sell one a sample of each. I decided I won’t base my view of Urban Earth on this tea alone so I need others for further evaluation.
That is basically the order I have coming to me minus the Lady Grey.
This tea throws me back to highschool… the smell and taste trigger memories of mine which I have yet to have a tea do. Not entirely sure how to handle such an experience while sipping on a tea, while these are great memories it reminds me of the past which was a different me in a different place.
Anyways, this tea is darker than the Qilan which actually had dark olive leaves when I rebrewed it. This Queshe is a tea that I will thoroughly enjoy until it is gone. No texture left in the mouth after a drink and the warmth spews (sorry for that word) upwards through one’s mouth as the liquid goes down. The only negative part is the semi dryness that comes from drinking a lot of this… but maybe 8 ounces is more than I should sip on.
I still have more Wuyi Mountain teas to try before I determine which one I want to buy more of… but this might just already be one of them.
Disappointing :(
I’d okay with burnt Lucky Charm marshmallow taste… I think what I’m tasting is some genmaicha that sat on a wooden chair
I’ve never tried a lot of 52teas teas because they are flavoured. I love genmaicha and this one intrigued me but not anymore. Doesn’t sound very good.
I’ve had matcha and strawberry genmaicha as well, this is the worst I have had though. In Tokyo they have ground genmaicha at some resturants resturantsthat I tried… Rather weird to have powdered gemiacha. I am going to personally blend my own breakfast blueberry cobbler genmaicha sometime in July or August since I’m working on others right now.
While this is a very smooth taste, it does have a black tea taste to it- though that is no surprise. I will not rate this tea on my own taste, which is what I generally do, but rather I will rate it on the merits of aroma, freshness, and leaf quality. The integrity of this black oolong leaf is rather strong for a Japanese tea as it taste very fresh and has a very smooth taste. Though I personally am not a fan of black tea, this does not have that strong bitter taste that I associate with black teas so it would be preferred over a straight black tea for me.
I was somewhat confused as to what kind of tea this was since it was in a sample baggie that said custard filled maple long john. I don’t think I’ve drank honeybrush before, but this stuff is fantastic! Some light tasting heavy cream in this tea with a nice warm taste that comes alive as I sip on it. Quite happy I decided to randomly brew this today next to a blueberry green… what a contrast.
I drank many different types of bancha while I was in Tokyo this year and I’m thinking that maybe something was wrong with the sample of this I got… maybe, maybe not. I am not going to rate this because I’m unsure how to even do so after drinking this. The taste was a bit off though it brewed just fine.
Bought some Chinese Yunnan Maofeng Maohou Bud because I like the silver that is wrapped around the green leaf. This tea was somewhat mild and had a very wild taste to it. I liked it enough to drink 8ounces of it, but I’m not sure how many more times I will want to drink this tea yet because it is odd.
I am very excited to try my own. Did you Gongfu or western brew it?
I made a huge pot of it at once with a nice amount of leaf. I will say, the leaf is very large in size too (it was hard to package as well).