I stopped by my local tea shop and this was the only pu’er they had, so I thought what the heck, it was about 5 dollars for the last bit of the cake they had left (about 30 grams) so I went for it. I used about 8 grams tea, water just about boiling, gongfu, 2 short rinses. I started with very short steeps (5-10 secs) b/c that’s what I do with shou, but the tea was weak and terrible so I upped it to 30 secs and then one really long steep, which didn’t help much. The cake was very, very dry so it may not have been stored well. The aroma is decent enough, not fishy or anything, but It tastes like weak, funky old black tea. A flat zero on the sweet meter. I think I’ve been spoiled by better quality shous, so I’m going to chalk this one up as a loss of five bucks and move on.
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Break up the chunk and put it some small ceramic or porcelain sugar bowl or teapot to air out. Some water in a bowl near may help to rehydrate it. Sample it in a few weeks or month. Read Cwyn’s storing experiments on her blog.
Thanks, I will do that. The more pu’er I buy, the more I’m thinking I need to learn a bit about storage or I may risk ending up with a lot of undrinkable tea after a few months!
we all worry about it. Mrmopar can guide you about pumidor setup. Cwyn does different storage with ceramic crocks. im planning some setup,but for now its carton boxes ;(
Break up the chunk and put it some small ceramic or porcelain sugar bowl or teapot to air out. Some water in a bowl near may help to rehydrate it. Sample it in a few weeks or month. Read Cwyn’s storing experiments on her blog.
Thanks, I will do that. The more pu’er I buy, the more I’m thinking I need to learn a bit about storage or I may risk ending up with a lot of undrinkable tea after a few months!
we all worry about it. Mrmopar can guide you about pumidor setup. Cwyn does different storage with ceramic crocks. im planning some setup,but for now its carton boxes ;(