Element 2019 Menghai Ripe Puer
$4.50 – $15.00
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Description
The artificially fermented sibling of a raw puer, ripe/shou puer produces a smooth soup that is warming and especially comforting to drink in the colder months.
This tea has all the hallmarks of a quality ripe puer. Made from Menghai material, this tea has a smooth texture, date-like sweetness and a pleasantly woody overtone. This tea is also quite clean tasting, as it’s had plenty of time to rest off the pile, making it free of any off-taste that can sometimes be associated with freshly processed shou puer.
For gongfu brewing, we recommend brewing this tea similar to a dragon ball or other single serving format, either extending the rinse to 20 seconds or so, although this tea opens up a bit quicker than the others in this series. This biscuit also performs well when western brewing, for which we advise a brewing for 30 seconds as a rinse (discard) in a 350-400ml vessel, then brewing for 20 seconds and adding an additional 20 seconds (or to taste) per brew after that.
Each of the convenient single-serving biscuits contains 7g (+/-1 gram of tea).
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Alexewallace64 –
Still trying to appreciate shou. It’s not my favorite, and for this being so affordable I didn’t expect it to do much for me. But to be honest, it’s actually really enjoyable. Creamy, dates, earthy, cocoa, woody, grainy, has a nice sweetness, nutty, and a lot lighter/balanced in flavor than the aroma. That aroma punched me directly in the face lol. This might be one of my favor shou puers so far!
Billy Galvez –
Very good ripe, specially considering the price range. Very dark, very smooth, earthy. My favorite of the set.