Official Pu of the day

[auhckw]

2006 Xia Guan Tibet Flame Iron Beeng Raw - Solid hard. Taste is quite similar to it's mushroom version. Quite a nice tea to drink now. Not too strong. Not bitter. Not smoky. Their signature Tibet Flame aroma and taste is there. Compared to the 2009 mini iron beeng version, the 2009 mini is so much stronger. This 2006 is lighter. Both are nice depending you like strong or mild taste.

[auhckw]

2009 Dayi Gong Tuo Raw - Revisit this. This is one of my very first few Pu I purchased. I was told that this was produced by an ex Xiaguan producer. It has a little of the xiaguan smoky taste. This tasted better than Jia Ji Tuo, but it is not something that is enjoyable now. Good aftertaste after drinking but it is still tough to like.

[auhckw]

Someone wanted to learn the different taste of puerh. So I took up the challenge and have compiled some of the Pu (ripe and raw) spamming different age, different brands, different recipe, different mountains, plantation tea, wild tea, high mountain tea, wet stored, dry stored, cheap tea, expensive tea, good tea and bad tea. I have also included the same recipe but differs by few years.

I have not finalized the samples, but here are part of it... Ripe 11, Raw 21 types Should be enough, but I'll try to squeeze in a few more...

[bryan_drinks_tea]

The 2004 Changtai Yiwu Zhengpin Blue Stamp. I got a sample from Red Lantern at first, and then I received two differently stored samples from Sp1key, which were excellent in helping me learn about storage differences.






This stuff lasted me all day. the liquor in the cup is from the 24th infusion, and I went to 30 before finally giving up. For about eight cups, somewhere between 15-25, there was an excellent sweet woody flavor and very pleasant camphor flavor. I really enjoyed this, and I'm looking forward to making a purchase.

[auhckw]

1998 Dayi Jia Ji Tuo Raw - 13 years of aging. Mellowed down but still kicking. First four brew is ok, but on the fifth brew camphor taste starts coming out... yum yum. For a tuo which used to be very cheap, it sure has turned out good.

[Drax]

I am not feeling well already from today's marathon... need my coke...

well that *was* a lot of compost you just drank...

I was going to say as well that the Nan Jian looks okay! Those tuos tend to be rock solid, so may have been part of why it doesn't look as though it changed as much....

Awesome photos, and, love the rabbit!

[auhckw]

1999 Raw - Wet stored. Taste weird. Obvious 'chang' warehouse taste. Vegetable taste.

From photos it doesn't look that wet-stored. Maybe got some humidity at certain point? Maybe let it breathe for some days?

When this arrived, it was already like this condition.

It has been on the shelf for few months breathing a lot of our air already

Diff people Diff taste. So some people will actually like this. I prefer dry, and this taste is not easy to adopt.

I am not feeling well already from today's marathon... need my coke...

[gingkoseto]

1999 Raw - Wet stored. Taste weird. Obvious 'chang' warehouse taste. Vegetable taste.

From photos it doesn't look that wet-stored. Maybe got some humidity at certain point? Maybe let it breathe for some days?

[auhckw]

Wild Red Tea - Rarely will I say a red tea is nice. This is nice

[auhckw]

1995 raw - Wet stored. Taste weird. Obvious 'chang' warehouse taste. Vegetable taste. Worse than the 2 post before. Will it go better? Only time will tell

[auhckw]

2008 raw - Astringency. Strong. Leaving a nice aroma in the mouth. Cheap.

[auhckw]

1999 Raw - Wet stored. Taste weird. Obvious 'chang' warehouse taste. Vegetable taste.

[auhckw]

90s ripe - Taste kind of similar expressed raw pu. Not much character and flavor. Dull. Ok to drink if you can accept its taste.

[auhckw]

90s Ripe - It says it is ripe, but it taste very much like a raw. A customer was saying this is Hong Kong stored. It is raw pu, but purposely made to age faster. Spray water method? Underground basement method? We don't know, but it has the raw that is aged but with wet taste. Kind of ok if like wet.

[auhckw]

Had a tea marathon with another teachatter from abroad. He said he don't mind wet pu... so I brought him to a teashop and here are some of the pu we drank. Probably the first time I had so many wet pu in my life in a day.

90s Gong Ting Ripe - A bit bitter. Woody. Wet stored taste. Not a high grade material but is quite nice. Soup is thick.