Element 2019 Menghai Ripe Puer
Price range: $4.50 through $15.00
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Description
The artificially fermented sibling of a raw puer, ripe/shou puer produces a smooth soup that is warming and especially comforting to drink in the colder months.
This tea has all the hallmarks of a quality ripe puer. Made from Menghai material, this tea has a smooth texture, date-like sweetness and a pleasantly woody overtone. This tea is also quite clean tasting, as it’s had plenty of time to rest off the pile, making it free of any off-taste that can sometimes be associated with freshly processed shou puer.
For gongfu brewing, we recommend brewing this tea similar to a dragon ball or other single serving format, either extending the rinse to 20 seconds or so, although this tea opens up a bit quicker than the others in this series. This biscuit also performs well when western brewing, for which we advise a brewing for 30 seconds as a rinse (discard) in a 350-400ml vessel, then brewing for 20 seconds and adding an additional 20 seconds (or to taste) per brew after that.
Each of the convenient single-serving biscuits contains 7g (+/-1 gram of tea).
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Alexewallace64 –
Still trying to appreciate shou. It’s not my favorite, and for this being so affordable I didn’t expect it to do much for me. But to be honest, it’s actually really enjoyable. Creamy, dates, earthy, cocoa, woody, grainy, has a nice sweetness, nutty, and a lot lighter/balanced in flavor than the aroma. That aroma punched me directly in the face lol. This might be one of my favor shou puers so far!
Billy Galvez –
Very good ripe, specially considering the price range. Very dark, very smooth, earthy. My favorite of the set.
Alexandra Verville-Paris –
A bit rough to fully fall in the comforting category.
//Smell : Wet soil, root vegetables, wet rock, trail in forest, cream of mushroom soup, red berries
//Texture: Bitter very present at the front of the mouth, medium texture, cheeks covering, creamy but cold
//Taste : Earthy, mineral, clay cave, cooked root vegetables, bread rusk
//Body sensation: Slow moving, calm, tiny heat but all around the body, tired eyes
Alen D –
I got this in the Element Tasting Set. I was a bit nonchalant with this one and might’ve oversteeped it at few steeps. To my defence, I didn’t expect it to steep that fast. The liquor turns very dark very fast, it’s on the thicker side of ripe, but has a sort of a dry finish reminding me of nutmeg. It has a nicely balanced but not too complex profile of wet wood, dates and a touch of cocoa bitterness with a sweet aftertaste. It was a very nice tea to bring on a trip, and it seems very cost-effective as I got to share six 150ml cups with a friend.
mineralitea_E.C. –
Got this as part of the Element tasting set. A simple puer that brews quite inky with a strong salty mushroom soup aroma, yet surprisingly clean and woody in flavour. A bit earth, and clay/chalky in texture. Would rate this 4.5 stars when taking into account the value and convenience.
mysticfire1111 –
This tea was very earthy warming type of ripe puerh, a very good digestive tool, just for the value you get i’m giving this one 4.5 stars as well alongside mineralitea, excellent ripe to just throw in the thermos and forgot about it for a few hours till after a heavy meal or when in need of warmth. A solid reliable to have as a no means bad good value ripe puerh. It represents what a ripe should be, a warm body soother for when you just had that greasy meal perhaps. A solid shou.