Another sample from Puerhshop and one of the famous MGH recipes. Definitely a calming easy drinker. Trace bitterness. Absent astringency. Apparently this has been dry stored for much of its life, but is still quite nice and shows some age.
A nice tea I could see being a daily drinker. But at $0.16/g for a cake, I’m on the fence. I might rather go with one of W2T’s newer cakes that are closer to $0.20/g. If this cake were in the $0.10-0.12/g range or sported more complexity, I’d certainly buy one. But I’m tempted and might end up getting one anyways because I could see it getting significantly better with some time and TLD (tender loving dampness).
Full mouthfeel for a sheng. Like drinking a watered down gel. Longevity was 15+ infusions. Honey and white grapes take quite a bit of time to show their heads at the 10th infusion. Given the age and concomitant lack of bitterness, I might try hotter/longer steep times to ramp up flavor development speed.
Batch: 803
Flavors: Bitter, Hay, Honey, Nutty, Pepper, Smoke, Sweet, White Grapes
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Really interested to read about all the puer on your journey. I am working to get my brain around all the recipes and abbreviations and storage and intricacies of sourcing… just want amazing tea in my cup, lol!
Do you both know mrmopar and have a link to his recommended puerh list?
I know it is very confusing! I’m new to it all too but loving puerh for sure.
I haven’t seen mrmopar’s list but that would be super helpful and appreciated!
I know of him, and I actually have a couple samples that came to me from someone he originally sent them to at some point… but no, do tell about this list! I have been craving some sort of digestible collection of info. I feel so scattered.
https://steepster.com/mrmopar/teas?sort=rating
There are a few more links you might like. Have to dig them up…
This has a lot of info and is one mrmopar recommended for reading a long time ago.
http://www.puerh.fr/en/article/red_da_yi.htm
If you go to discussions and just use puerh as your search topic you will find lots of info, too.
ashmanra, you rock. Thank you very much!
You’re welcome! And Mrmopar is awesome and will happily answer any questions you may have. We also discovered we are distant cousins! (As is gmathis!)
Whaaaaaaaat?! That is nuts and I love it.
Thanks ashmanra for the help! He certainly looks like he knew his stuff! Too bad he’s not posting anymore. I might get some samples of some of his top recommended teas soon :).
And that’s wild to find someone on here who is related!
Marshall Weber: Although he isn’t posting, I believe I have seen a few comments from him so I think he is still reading! He is usually pretty quick to respond to DMs and if you search in the discussion threads, you might come across his description of how he built his pumidors! He is a really awesome guy.
He is currently active on Liquid Proust’s discord — are you over there yet, Marshall? Puerh nerding abounds. The link is in the discussion forums!
I’m not on there but would love to be! I searched for it but looks like the link in the discussions has expired or maybe the group is private? I’ll try to DM him for a new link.
Mrmopar has your names and will be following you soon!
Thanks a bunch for all the help! I look forward to talking tea with him.
This should be a current invite link the discord: https://discord.gg/hamderHc
Just joined! Thanks for the link :)
Woohoo!
Really interested to read about all the puer on your journey. I am working to get my brain around all the recipes and abbreviations and storage and intricacies of sourcing… just want amazing tea in my cup, lol!
Do you both know mrmopar and have a link to his recommended puerh list?
I know it is very confusing! I’m new to it all too but loving puerh for sure.
I haven’t seen mrmopar’s list but that would be super helpful and appreciated!
I know of him, and I actually have a couple samples that came to me from someone he originally sent them to at some point… but no, do tell about this list! I have been craving some sort of digestible collection of info. I feel so scattered.
https://steepster.com/mrmopar/teas?sort=rating
There are a few more links you might like. Have to dig them up…
This has a lot of info and is one mrmopar recommended for reading a long time ago.
http://www.puerh.fr/en/article/red_da_yi.htm
If you go to discussions and just use puerh as your search topic you will find lots of info, too.
ashmanra, you rock. Thank you very much!
You’re welcome! And Mrmopar is awesome and will happily answer any questions you may have. We also discovered we are distant cousins! (As is gmathis!)
Whaaaaaaaat?! That is nuts and I love it.
Thanks ashmanra for the help! He certainly looks like he knew his stuff! Too bad he’s not posting anymore. I might get some samples of some of his top recommended teas soon :).
And that’s wild to find someone on here who is related!
Marshall Weber: Although he isn’t posting, I believe I have seen a few comments from him so I think he is still reading! He is usually pretty quick to respond to DMs and if you search in the discussion threads, you might come across his description of how he built his pumidors! He is a really awesome guy.
He is currently active on Liquid Proust’s discord — are you over there yet, Marshall? Puerh nerding abounds. The link is in the discussion forums!
I’m not on there but would love to be! I searched for it but looks like the link in the discussions has expired or maybe the group is private? I’ll try to DM him for a new link.
Mrmopar has your names and will be following you soon!
Thanks a bunch for all the help! I look forward to talking tea with him.
This should be a current invite link the discord: https://discord.gg/hamderHc
Just joined! Thanks for the link :)
Woohoo!