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First experience with Pu-er - 5mg dose

It's great! I got 20 little black tuo chas (100g) from Stash which I later realized was the most expensive place I could have bought 'em. But I brewed a few cups and I really enjoyed it! It brewed up sort of a mahogany color, dark purplish brown, and it has a taste that I can only describe as "extremely vegetal" .. you have no doubt that what you're drinking is from a plant. But it has no lingering aftertaste, it finishes clean and is very friendly and drinkable. Very pleasant! I even brewed up some for two other people who drank their entire mug-fulls and said it was strange but not bad.

I think green is nicer for casual drinking, because currently it's almost like I have to psych myself up for Pu-erh, but I'll definitely be buying it again (hopefully from a different retailer!)

B
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On 24 Jul 2004 21:44:36 -0700, will snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (SuperBobo) cast caution to the wind and posted:

You are embarking on a long and wonderful journey. Puer is such a fascinating tea that you can explore forever and still experience something new. The progression typically is that you start with black puer, then try some green puer, then start experimenting with gongfu preparation. BTW when you find some really good black mini tuocha it WILL have an aftertaste, a hauntingly elusive sweetness that is absolutely wonderful.

Mike Petro snipped-for-privacy@pu-erh.net

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SuperBobo wrote

Welcome to the Pu-erh club. It's about half of what I drink now. I got my first mini-tuocha as a gift from another RFDTer (thanks, Rick!). Following discussions here, I had been around to lots of places in both Boston and NYC Chinatowns, with no luck finding them by sight or name. Taking an example of what I wanted to show made a big difference.

What I've now found locally at about 20 cents each is very hard, dense 4g bowls wrapped in tissue. (I take this off before brewing - is that correct?) Despite the hard packing, they break up immediately on wetting, unlike all of the larger (and usually looser) fangchas, bingchas and tuochas I've tried. Each is enough for two mug-sized steeps, or a fair-sized pot - the flavor extracts faster than any other Pu-erh I've tried, so multiple steeps don't seem to work. Haven't yet found any green or higher-quality black mini-tuochas - anyone else?

If you like the cheap cooked stuff, there's a 250g rectangular brick I've found in both cities for under $2.00. Mike Petro found some Web references and added these useful comments (quoted w/o permission - hope that's OK, Mike):

grade/year/process combinations can be found in the same wrapper. Therefore YMMV greatly.

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Funny thing is, with so many steeps possible, the expensive Pu-erh actually costs about the same per serving if you take it out all the way. Still, I need to find a hobby where the best of whatever it is is something no-one else values, at least financially...

-DM

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Dog Ma 1

DM, I agree. Some days I look back wistfully on my penchant for collecting bottle caps in the 1950's...

Joe

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Joseph Kubera

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