Tag Archives: cooked Pu-erh

Hangzhou Jiasheng Tea Co. – CPT7016

Let’s get the obvious out of the way before we go any further – this tea is never, ever, going to win any kind of award.

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2013 Menghai 7562

I picked up this brick during a visit to UK based vendor Green Tea Guru‘s website.

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2010 Haiwan Lao Tong Feng Shou Cha

I found this 100 gram feng (square brick) of shou Pu-erh at one of my favourite suppliers, House of Tea.

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White2Tea 2016 Brown Sugar

This is the 2016 incarnation of White2Tea‘s 200 gram Brown Sugar shou Pu-erh brick.

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2008 Nanjian Tulin Shou Tuo

I ran across this tuo when I was visiting Green Tea Guru during a multi-site shopping spree with the aim of bolstering the shou side of my stash.

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Cream by White2Tea

The What One of the criticisms often levelled at White2Tea is that they play their cards a little too close to their chests for some folks in the tea community, who want to know to the half metre where on … Continue reading

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Chocolate Shou Pu-erh

The idea behind this experiment began to take shape after I read this article on Oolong Owl’s excellent blog about Tisano chocolate tea.

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Danyun Fairtrade T-Project

The other week Mrs. Teaist came home with a present for me, a 100 gram packet of Pu-erh that she had picked up on her way home from work.

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What-cha 2016 Yong De Ripe

If you read enough tea blogs and keep up to date with developments on the tea scene via Steepster and the /r/tea subreddit then you could hardly fail to notice that UK based tea vendor What-cha has a growing reputation … Continue reading

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone

I had this post about 90-something percent written, but then **cue sound of brakes being applied, squeal of tyres** discovered that the tea in question, White2Tea’s house blend shou Pu-erh, known as “Old Reliable“, is now unavailable. Its thumbnail photo … Continue reading

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