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This is a very good ripe that Puerh Brooklyn doesn’t yet list on their website. It was quite expensive. For the price I paid I was expecting phenomenal. This tea was really, really good but I will have to drink it again before I decide it was phenomenal. There was a fair amount of fermentation taste to the early steeps, not unpleasant or fishy. There were some notes of dark chocolate in there too. As I resteeped this tea over and over again, eventually steeping it 16 times it got sweeter and sweeter, developing a fruity note. I really can’t pin it down to a specific fruit but it did improve dramatically. I gave it more than my customary twelve steeps because it was so expensive. Even after 16 steeps I think I could have gotten another 2 steeps out of the leaves. It had gotten weaker by the 16th steep but not so weak that the leaves were dead. Overall this was a very, very good tea.

I steeped this tea sixteen times in a 160ml solid silver teapot with 12.2g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, 2 min, 2.5 min, 3 min, 3.5 min, and 4 minutes.

Flavors: Chocolate, Dark Bittersweet, Fruity, Sweet

Preparation
Boiling 12 g 5 OZ / 160 ML

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I am Allan. I live and work in Long Island, New York. I have been amassing a tea collection for nearly two years and have spent way too much money. I now try to buy mostly Puerh as I like it most and it lasts nearly forever. Black tea has a habit of going bad. If anyone is interested in tea swaps I am open to ideas and have quite a cupboard.

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