Coffee Pu'erh

ok so I got this last week or worse, haven’t tried it yet as my experience with Pu’erhs have been pretty piss pu’erh <~ haha i AM quite clever.
Anyways, OMFG NOM! LOVE it, gave me that kick I was looking for and with no sacrifice of taste, this is a beautiful tea with strong kicks of chocolate and coffee, it’s absolutely a new essential!

I love this tea, it is my go-to tea in the morning. I usually just leave the teabag in all day as my tumbler will keep it hot for hours. Perfect if you’re a coffee-lover :)

So I don’t like coffee, and I’ve never tried pu-erh before. So I was already a bit wary. It smells strongly of coffee and brewed up to a ridiculously deep brown color. I put milk and sugar in it since that’s the only way I can drink any amount of coffee, and it was alright. I’m pretty sure actual coffee lovers would get a kick out of this tea.

On it’s own, this tasted like a very mild coffee without any of the weird aftertaste. It got the job done as far as caffeine, no jitters. It didn’t really taste good so much as mild and a little pleasing.

Adding sugar, though, really brought all the flavor out. Wow! Suddenly I could actually taste the vanilla and chocolate.

I’ve found that I have some difficulty getting pu’er tea to consistently taste good. I’ve had a much easier time with this stuff and didn’t really end up feeling the need to go through any extra preparation. Sharing it with my coffee-lover boyfriend (who discovered the sugar trick), he declared that this was his favorite tea so far and he’s been asking for it ever since. I’m definitely going back for more.

Coffe and Pu’erh are my two favorite drinks in the world. Unfortunately, I think something is lost when the two are combined. Don’t get me wrong, this is still a very drinkable tea, but it seems a little flat to me. The best pu’erhs are a complex earthy web of flavors. There are some Sumatra coffee’s that have a similar flavor profile. This tea only contains a hint of the complexity.

VariaTEA has inspired me to try cold steeping tea in milk. This is my number one choice for that experiment – there is some in the fridge right now.

Because I pulled it out to cold steep, I made a cup hot as well. I love this tea, I’ve loved this tea for years. It’s one of those that I always have in my cupboard, and I enjoy it every time I drink it. It’s coffee, it’s pu’erh, it’s dark, it’s smooth, it’s amazing.

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UNBELIEVEABLE, this tea tastes like a light hot chocolate mixed with the aroma of Coffee and a hint of vanilla. it is sooo splendidly delectible when combined with a splash of milk. So creamy its like dessert. One of my favourite tea’s and will definitely consider buying it again. As a coffee adict, I was quite sceptical that this would just taste plain old weird. I was pleasantly surprised because I felt this was a perfect blend of chocolate, caramel, and almond flavours. I 100% recommend this tea to coffee lovers alike.

Yummy yummy! Coffee Pu’erh in my tummy! I love this stuff. I drink it every day. I add no sugar or milk. I love strong, bold tea so I often steep it 10 minutes or longer. The only problem is it will go cold before it’s ready. It rarely re-steeps well so if I want more out of it, I steep 3-4 mins only and drink half the mug and then re-steep again w/ more hot water. I probably spend about $200/year on this tea alone. I’m a fool for DavidsTea

I was never a fan of pu’erh tea, but after making it into an iced latte at work one day I found it quite enjoyable! So I grabbed a small amount for myself and brought it when I went to visit my family. My dad, who always rejected my offers to buy him tea, is a COFFEE GUY if you know what I mean. Point of the story, he was interested in my description of this tea to him, and I made us both a cup with a bit of milk in it. IT WAS SO GOOD! He loved it, and surprisingly enough I did too!

I found that the usual mushroom taste of the pu’erh actually meshed super well with the subtle coffee, caramel and chocolate flavours. It was like a guilty pleasure that wasn’t…. agh what a pleasant surprise :)

I live off coffee (and I’m trying to change that!) and when I told the guy working at DAVIDsTEA this, he took this tea out. It smelled amazing, like chocolate and coffee, so I decided to get it.

I’ve tried this so many times before, and each time was a major disappointment. To be fair, it was one of the first teas I tried, and at the time, I may not have been steeping it correctly, since I was new to this whole ‘tea thing’. Many months later, I’ve made myself plenty of tea and found that steeping it properly really does make all the difference. So I decided to give Coffee Pu’erh another chance.

According to some suggestions below, I decided to rinse the leaves for 5 seconds and to steep it for less time (4 minutes as opposed to 6) to see if it would make a difference. Thankfully, it’s slightly more drinkable—but still very earthy. Not a flavour to write home about IMO. I don’t get any hints of caramel (or sweetness, for that matter), but I do get a bit of bitterness of dark chocolate (which is nice). I thought it would help to add milk and sugar since that’s how I like my coffee, but each time I’ve tried it, it’s tasted much worse than drinking it straight.

I would not purchase this again. I’ll definitely stick to coffee if I want a coffee flavour. Coffee Pu’erh really doesn’t cut it from a coffee-lover’s point of view, sorry!