Rummy Pu

So I had this last night after indulging in too many beers. After I added water, I thought that this might have been a bad idea. Delayed thought process FTW! Too late to stop now though.
100ml gaiwan, 212F, no rinse.
Tastes of rum, smooth, earthy. Granted I don’t drink rum much, but I know what alcohol tastes like. Started with short 5s steeps and increased steep time as I went. 10 steeps in I had to stop as tea is pretty potent. Tea was adding to tipsy/drunk feeling.

It took a number of steeps for rum taste to leave and for the pu to shine through. I liked it, but I need to try it again later.

First tea out of the TTB round 5! I was really hoping to like this one as I do enjoy the occasional rum-laden beverage, however this tea is definitely not for me. Thanks LP for including it in the box though as I really wanted to try it.

I invited my friend Mitch over to enjoy the Rummy Pu with me. Mitch likes both puerh and liquor, so I was curious to see what he would think of a combination of the two. Upon opening the package, we immediately thought we opened a bottle of rum. The aroma of the dry leaf was strong! It hit us like opening a bottle of rum. I decided to brew 5 grams in my 100ml gaiwan with boiling water. I gave the tea a quick rinse, and normally I would discard the rinse of any puerh, but I was curious to try it. The rinse tasted like straight rum! The puerh hadn’t become apparent yet, I actually got a bit of that alcohol burn! The next few infusions I brewed for about 15 seconds to let the puerh get a bit stronger. The tea definitely had a rum kick to it, but the puerh gave it a nice chocolatey note to it. The best description I can come up with is that the tea tasted like chocolate rum balls. A nice strong rum taste but with a heavy chocolate note to it. What I kept remarking on during the session was what high quality the base puerh tea was. It was a golden needle loose shou puerh that had excellent flavor. I would drink the tea alone even without the barrel. Liquid Proust does not use lower quality bases and hide its flaws with flavor, everything about this base tea was excellent.

Full Review on Tching.com http://www.tching.com/2016/08/review-liquid-proust-teas-rummy-pu/

This tea is definitely interesting! On opening the package, I was hit by the strong scent of rum. I’ve never had tea that tastes like alcohol so I was super excited to try it!

I used 3g in about 8oz of boiling water for 1min. The brew smelled like rum and something kind of… mushroomy? earthy? muddy? which is probably the puerh coming through. I couldn’t taste much rum in the beginning, but the rum flavor started coming through as the tea cooled. There was also a hint of sweetness that complemented the alcohol flavor very well.

This tea is very unique, but probably wasted on me since I still haven’t learned to like alcohol yet! I might brew some of this for my more alcohol-loving friends to try.

I have to admit that I was afraid to try this tea after a mini session with LP. Putting 5 or so needles in a cup full of water yielded a pretty strong rum taste. What on earth was a full session going to taste like??

The dry leaves smell very strongly of rum, but there’s also a fungal, earthy sort of aroma beneath it. That aroma comes through in the scent of the brew and the flavor of the liquid.

Rum, of course, is the strongest flavor. This is particularly great for me because I like some aspects of certain alcohols, but hate that burn that comes with it. This tea allowed me to experience some of that great rummy flavor without the burn. This rum flavor lasted through several steeps.

The base is also nice. As with the dry leaves, the brew is a little fungal, but it is also sweet and woody. It’s rather clean and refreshing for a shou. Later steeps reveal the brew to be more like a dark brown bread, which pairs well with the subdued rum flavor.

This was my favorite of the LP blends so far. Great job!!

First off, this is the tea that allows you to get drunk (not the type of drunk that’s inappropriate whilst driving) without the hangover the following morning. It’s the type of drunk that leaves you satisfied & hyper; focused and giddy.

Now, I love pu-erh and rum. I love pu-erh a little more these days, but this allows me the satisfaction of having both. What can get better than rum infused pu-erh goodness?

Nothing.

Allow me to say that Liquid Proust, you are a master at tea blending. I mean that. This is a solid tea. I had to call my rum-loving friend over to try it.

He said, “Woah, son, give me more of that liquid.”

I had a total of 3 sessions with this yesterday. About 8 steps each session. I like the first three steeps the best due to the high amount of rum that comes through the tea. However, 5-8 has a nice smooth and rich pu-erh note to it, that it is still good without the rum. No astringency to it.

If you’ve yet to try this, I’d suggest getting a few packages. I’m going to look into getting stocked up after I return from North Carolina.

Maybe then I can get a kayak, too, and call myself a River Dwelling Pu Pirate.

That’d be sweet.

Sincerely,

Capt. Pu-Head

Drank this one on the way to work today;

I greatly want to sit down and try this Gong Fu in a larger/longer session, but the curiosity of trying it finally just got to me and I brewed it up for myself for the commute to work – Western style, of course, ’cause I had to bring it in a travel mug.

I think the dry leaf of this Pu smells amazing. I definitely currently live in a ‘rum household’, by which I mean me and my roommates drink a lot and the household alcohol of choice it typically something with rum in it. Personally, I have a strong preference for very dark rum, while Trey and Cathryn both favour spiced rum. I showed this one to Trey and he cracked open the package, deeply inhaled and then refused to give the tea back for half an hour while he just breathed in all the yum. The aroma is just so potently and richly like rum with this marvelous, deep earthy baseline scent.

The taste is fascinating to me; the first flavour is absolutely, 100% the rum but it’s so incredibly amazing how accurately that flavour comes across. It would be wrong to say I’m “surprised” how dead on the flavour is; and impressed isn’t the right word either but what I’m looking for is somewhere in that wheelhouse. You can tell this is real rum though; it’s got that distinctly alcoholic taste to it instead of the overly sweet artificial rum/“rum flavouring”. And trust me, the authenticity of the flavour is hella appreciated.

One thing I imagine would be a pro to Gong Fu brewing this would be having the rum flavour fade out and there being more focus on the Pu base; I think it brewing this Western I’m getting quite the focus on the rum flavour with less really stand out notes from the Pu’erh. That said, there’s definitely an earthy/muddy undertone to the rum notes. Also a little bit of sweetness that presents in the finish; I noticed it a little more as the tea was cooling. When this was still close to piping hot it was hard to taste anything but the rum; but at more of that lukewarm temperature there were definitely some fruitier notes and almost a bit of baker’s chocolate dull sweetness/bitterness.

Such a fascinating tea, honestly. I swear, only LP would be crazy enough to try aging Pu’erh in a rum barrel – but bless him for it because this is delicious and divine and quite unique!

I am not a big fan of shu anymore. Funny thing is I started drinking shu before sheng. I liked shu just fine but sheng turned out to be my favourite. Yet, I was excited to try out this tea by LP because I love rum.

Wow! This tea is amazing! Rum & earthy! This is a slight sour note to it too. I don’t know if that’s coming from the rum or the pu-erh but it really comes together well. I am really amazed with some of the teas from LP. This tea is certainly a winner.

It probably isn’t the best tea for the morning since I have to be on the road soon. Will I get stopped by the cops with alcohol on my breath? lol I will save the rest of those leaves for the afternoon.

Awesome! I haven’t tried any alcohol-flavored teas before (I’m not usually a fan of alcohol) but I was curious so I tried this. So far I love it!! I’ll plan on adding more detailed notes later.

Puerh Tea TTB. This was an interesting tea. The taste of the rum was very strong at first, too strong to my taste buds. It lessened after a few steeps and I liked it better. The ripe tea itself was good, not having too strong a fermentation taste and not having any real bitterness. Overall I liked this tea.

I steeped this tea twelve times in a 100ml gaiwan with 6.4g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse and a 10 minute rest. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, and 2 min.