Dry – Woody rich dark notes
Wet – Rich woody notes, broth-y/savory, wet storage, decayed wood.
Liquor – Light Brown
Initial Note/caveat – I’m drinking the loose version of this tea, the pressed version may differ due to the the pressing process
Initial steeps are smoother than you would expect for the scent of the wet leaves but still rich wet wood notes with cedar (spicy?) and some camphor and a fair amount of thickness that is brothy/leathery/musty (think mushroom soup) and as it washes down it has some astringency to it, but not unpleasant.
Mid steeps (4-6) were similar but with some of that ‘dankness’ of mushroom soup and leather mellowing down, but also loosing some of the body with each steep. Somewhere in here the cedar comes upfront, I think because the slight spice note numbs my tongue a bit and it also has some more astringency than I expected, but still not unpleasant at all.
Later on it keeps loosing steam in the strength of the steeps, so you have to start pushing it a bit. However, it does hold up well with longer steeps and gives more than I expected from it.
Final Notes
The tea kept loosing steam, but I lost steam a bit quicker. I came in biased with this tea expecting some bulang character and found none of it. I did a few more steeps and I was over it, I bet people who love wetter stored tea will love it.
Flavors: Cedar, Leather, Musty, Wet Wood
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Yep, this one sits all alone in my storage. Waiting to dry out a bit.
Yup, mine is in brown bag airing out for a while. It still has plenty of dank to give out.
Do you have yours in the pumidor airing or just letting it dry out a bit outside? I’m not sure how to go about ‘cleaning’ some of the wet storage taste off it.
It is outside by itself. A bit too humid for the pumidor.
JC, be sure the brown bag doesn’t have a strong smell. Sometimes the cardboard smell can linger.
It came in it, so hopefully it wont disturb the tea. Honestly, I think the brown bag suffers more. lol
LOL
Yep, this one sits all alone in my storage. Waiting to dry out a bit.
Yup, mine is in brown bag airing out for a while. It still has plenty of dank to give out.
Do you have yours in the pumidor airing or just letting it dry out a bit outside? I’m not sure how to go about ‘cleaning’ some of the wet storage taste off it.
It is outside by itself. A bit too humid for the pumidor.
JC, be sure the brown bag doesn’t have a strong smell. Sometimes the cardboard smell can linger.
It came in it, so hopefully it wont disturb the tea. Honestly, I think the brown bag suffers more. lol
LOL