Sticky Rice Pu-erh Tuocha

Tea type
Pu'erh Tea
Ingredients
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Flavors
Bitter, Rice, Toasted Rice, Earth, Grass, Wet Earth
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205 °F / 96 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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  • “I have so much of this tea, I don’t even know what to do with it. Of course, I ended up not liking it as much as I thought I would – but hey, it was an investment! haha I’ll swap it away and maybe...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I picked this as a free sample from Chicago Tea Garden, mostly because it just seemed too different not to try. I mean, come on – sticky rice flavored tea! How can I not try it? This is actually...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Thanks to The Purrfect Cup for this one! I had this once before but am so glad I was able to try it again! Sticky Rice, Sticky Rice…yeah, yeah, YEAH!!!!! Totally…see my other notes on this one!!!” Read full tasting note
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From Chicago Tea Garden

These tuocha smell exactly like sticky rice. They taste like it too. This tea is a wonderful alternative to Japanese Genmaicha (Roasted Rice Green Tea). These tuocha are made from green pu-erh and were manufactured in 2004. The distinct sticky rice smell and taste comes from a Chinese herb known as Nuomixiang. The tea is stored for several months with the herb before being processed into tuocha form.

Pu-erh tuocha is sold by weight so for 50g you will receive around 12 pieces, 100g around 24 pieces, and 200g around 48 pieces.

About Chicago Tea Garden View company

Chicago Tea Garden is an online tea shop committed to providing extraordinary teas and tea education to tea lovers and those new to the leaf. Chicago Tea Garden's co-owner Tony Gebely also runs the World of Tea Blog [http://www.worldoftea.org] and Tweets at @WorldofTea.

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This is my first “sheng” or “green” pu erh and it’s very nice. Light and minty (due to extra herb) this tea tastes exactly like sticky rice. The color and mouthfeel reminds me of green tea but the taste is completely different, there is a lot more bite. First steep was very light green and the tuocha did not fall completely apart, second steep however the entire thing melted and the tea color is a light amber. The second steeping is much richer with a hint of basil almost.

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100 tasting notes

This tea is like a milk oolong, but instead of milk, put in rice. And then eliminate any aftertaste whatsoever.

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41 tasting notes

First off, I haven’t been on steepster at all in months! Bad me :<

But today I woke up and decided it was a sticky rice puerh day so I’m baaaaaack :P

Pulled out my last piece of sticky rice pu-erh that was so generously gifted me and stuck it in my new-to-me tea for one set :) http://i58.tinypic.com/34odili.jpg

Preheated both pot and cup (via sitting under the pot) and steeped for 30 seconds. Such a delightful tea…I forgot how light it comes out! Wonderfully earthy and grassy with that sticky rice finish :)

Flavors: Earth, Grass, Rice, Wet Earth

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 0 min, 30 sec

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My first pu-erh. Yes, it tastes and smells exactly like sticky rice, at least on the first infusion. A fun novelty experience, but I wouldn’t buy more (only got a sample).

1st infusion (45 sec): Tastes just like sweet sticky rice, with a touch of greenness at the end.

2nd infusion (45 sec): Oops, slightly bitter — the pu-erh cake had a chance to loosen up more, and is infusing faster. The rice flavor is still there, but it’s much more grassy and earthy now.

3rd infusion (40 sec): Too earthy for me. Tastes like the smell of fresh, clean dirt. Guess pu-erh isn’t my thing.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 45 sec

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A truly magical tea and my new favorite. For those of us who love rice as a culinary ingredient in its own right, rather than just a bland starch, this evokes some of the best heritage rice varieties and hand-crafted mochi. I don’t know how, but the puerh doesn’t overpower this at all, but blends seamlessly to make a soothing and evocative cup of tea.

Preparation
4 min, 0 sec

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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.

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987 tasting notes

Tried doing a big gongfu session with this tea tonight but the result wasn’t satisfying. The tea was very tightly packed into a mini-tuocha and my attempts to break it up meant the leaf was super broken and dusty. The first steep was quite nice, but the next few steeps were unpleasant and bitter. The leaf was also quite small, so a lot of it made it through the filter in my gaiwan.

Indigobloom

That happened to me once! Tao mentioned when I asked, that even though it isn’t common, sometimes you need to make a subsequent infusion shorter than the previous ones. It seemed to have worked, but mine was a different Puerh

boychik

i usually rinse and put it on pause. in a few minutes the mini tuo becomes bigger and looser. and 2,3rd steeps are shorter. leaves are already expanded

Christina / BooksandTea

I have one more mini-tuocha of this left. I may gongfu that one soon with this in mind (and even if it’s still bitter, hey – easy sipdown!)

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