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I bought this tea when Chayo Tea had a sale a couple weeks back. I couldn’t pass it up – even though it’s almost certainly overpriced at $3/5.5g mini-tuo. The dry leaf smells heavily of barnyard – and all its associated scents: straw, hay, manure. After a rinse, the aroma was very strong – I got tobacco, floral, herbal, and true to the tasting notes on the tea’s site, a touch of “cat piss.” After smelling that, I got a little nervous about tasting this tea.

On the first two steeps, the tuo wasn’t really opened up all the way, so I was getting lighter steeps. There was still quite a bit going on – floral, honey, and pinesap notes with a barnyard finish. Not a lot of body to the tea at this point.

In the next three steeps, the tuo opened up all the way. I started to get a touch of tobacco flavor on the front of the sip, along with the same honey and pinesap notes – not particularly sweet – and the floral flavor was mostly gone. The tea also started to pick up a bit of astringency which sat in the corners of my mouth. It had a sticky mouthfeel, helped in part by that astringency. The finish did have a weird note to it that could be described as cat piss…I don’t know what’s more disturbing: that I got that flavor from a tea or that I didn’t hate it.

The astringency died down most of the way over the next couple steeps (except when I accidentally oversteeped it once), but i was still getting a sticky, sappy tea.

Around steep 10, the flavor started to die down some. The tea first got a little bit gentler and less funky, with a bit of a creamy mouthfeel. After that, the flavor dropped off a little bit more suddenly, and was most of the way gone by steep 12. The last couple steeps were mostly flavorless, reminding me that this is a mini-tuo with leaves as chopped up as is standard for this form of pressing. There was an odd and mostly unpleasant finish to those last couple steeps – almost platicky or rubbery.

There wasn’t a whole lot of info as to this tea’s origin or age on Chayo Tea’s website. I think it’s overpriced for what it is, at $35 for 12 mini-tuos before any sales or discounts. It’s really not particularly high quality material, being pretty chopped up and all that. I will say that I do not regret buying it though – it’s interesting and a rather uniquely flavored tea as far as my experience is concerned. Absolutely not something you would want as a daily drinker, but tasty enough and something that’s kind of fun to experience. I suspect I will keep some of my remaining 11 and toss the rest randomly into any upcoming tea swaps I make. I would guess this tea is maybe a few years old. Doesn’t have the astringency of a fresher tea – maybe 2010-2012. Not sure of course as its not listed. Also – don’t google “Cow Cunt Puerh” trust me. Again, this gets a decent rating not for how good it is, but for how interesting it is. The flavor was complex and a little bit tough to figure out.

Flavors: Astringent, Barnyard, Floral, Honey, Pine, Sap, Straw, Tobacco

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
Rasseru

Another one to add to the list of great chinese tea names, & cats piss is another great tea flavour

Fjellrev

That is a truly glorious name.

Matu

Yea, apparently it’s a phrase that basically means the same thing as “The Bee’s Knees” but literally translates to “Cow Cunt” :P I dunno how often the Cat Piss flavor tag would be used on Steepster…

Rasseru

its the new big thing, i’m already in communication with some cat owners about patenting a range of cats piss products.

Big in 2017, you just see

Matu

Man I just wanna know how that flavor got into a tea. Like, “oh that tree? You don’t want tea from there. Mittens loves that tree. I mean…you can have it if you want it”

Matu

And then they sold it for a buncha money to “geniuses” like me.

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Rasseru

Another one to add to the list of great chinese tea names, & cats piss is another great tea flavour

Fjellrev

That is a truly glorious name.

Matu

Yea, apparently it’s a phrase that basically means the same thing as “The Bee’s Knees” but literally translates to “Cow Cunt” :P I dunno how often the Cat Piss flavor tag would be used on Steepster…

Rasseru

its the new big thing, i’m already in communication with some cat owners about patenting a range of cats piss products.

Big in 2017, you just see

Matu

Man I just wanna know how that flavor got into a tea. Like, “oh that tree? You don’t want tea from there. Mittens loves that tree. I mean…you can have it if you want it”

Matu

And then they sold it for a buncha money to “geniuses” like me.

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A bit about myself: 22 years old, college grad (Double major in Anthropology and History). I plan to make a career of archaeology and hopefully travel (much of) the world in my days.

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My favorite type of tea is sheng puerh. Particularly younger stuff, if only because I haven’t gotten the chance to taste much of anything aged. I also really like oolong (Taiwanese, Wuyi, Dancong, etc.) and Japanese Green Teas. I do also enjoy most other kinds of tea, but they aren’t what I normally buy. I’m not a huge fan of shou puerh, black tea, or flavored blends, with few exceptions.

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