Sipdown no. 13 of February 2019 (no. 31 of 2019 total, no. 519 grand total).
OK. I must severely bump down the rating on this. Like into the yuck zone.
I think I was overly generous when I rated it as I did because I was sort of taken with the idea of a rice flavored pu erh. But when I was confronted with the lower rated teas in my cupboard (of which this was one) and put this in the cold brew queue, I realized my mistake.
Cold brew almost always makes tea taste better. I almost always find myself bumping up the rating.
But this was pretty gross. I mean, I couldn’t drink it in the morning to take my vitamins with for fear of gagging. The rice note became something that didn’t taste like rice so much as something that tasted nastily pungent.
No. 2 agreed. He tried this and had to throw away the cup after one sip. He, who loved the last pu erh cold brew so much he spirited away the last bit in the pitcher into his water bottle to take with him on his week long outdoor ed trip.
Today I put the last 4 of these into a pitcher with some shu tuochas and a spoon of loose shu. I’m hoping that will cut the nastily pungent note enough to make it bearable. In any case, I can’t imagine anything making it worse.
Not going to miss this one at all.
