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"Dark River" Lin Cang Grade 3 from Silk Road Teas

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"Dark River" Lin Cang Grade 3

Pu-erh Tea by Silk Road Teas

Tea from the Lin Cang area is known to offer a very pleasurable taste when the fermentation is handled well. This Grade 3, ripe, loose leaf Pu-erh was made at a small factory in Yuan Xian, county of Lin Cang. The leaf is a light-to-medium fermentation so there is room for this tea to change and develop. Taste is full, offering an earthy, peat-like aroma, with a thick and sweet aftertaste. Tea was produced and pressed in 2007.

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Awkward Soul 2 tasting notes

Ty to Meeka for a sample of this from our Steepster meetup!

No steeping instructions, and Silk Road has this tea out of stock so there was no info there! Whatev’s, I can deal with it. 200F, quick steeps via gaiwan. However,my constant trips to the gaiwan is driving my roommates a little annoyed, as they are scrambling around trying to get ready for their LARP trip this weekend.

No fishyness or bitterness, earthy flavor ending with a little sweetness. Early infusions has a dark chocolate note mid sip. What I find interesting is how this tea can be super black in colour, but with taste with a good level of flavor and not blasting pu’er strong!

I did at least 5 to 7 steepings earlier today with this tea. I decided to finish it off by adding the leaves into my tea tumbler (t free) add a bit of hot water, waited a minute, then topped with ice.

Pretty good! I didn’t add any sugar and the pu’er is light and ends on a sweet note, perfect cold. Hopefully this unclogs up all the excess pizza I ate for lunch. Ugg.

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