date created:: 2024-10-24 11:11
date modified:: 2024-11-26 12:18

Haiwan Mini Brick Ripe Pu-erh

Vendor:: Curious Tea
Type:: shou puerh
Source:: Yunnan Province, China
Rating:: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Tasting notes

Steep one

Brewing method:: Gongfu
Brewing temperature:: 100° C
Weight:: 5 g
Volume:: 100 ml
Rinse:: 10 s
Steep time:: 10 s

Weight: ~5 g (full brick)
Volume:: 100 ml
Temperature: 100°
Steep: 10 s

• Nice dark liquor for the first steep
• Brick broke apart easily
• Got that ripe pu-erh funkiness
• Flavour a little weak on the first steep
• Getting some earthiness, a little bitterness

Steep two

Steep:: 10 s

• flavour a little stronger liquor even darker
• still getting some bitterness

Tried the second brick thermos style and it was delicious.