{"id":593,"date":"2018-12-08T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/?p=593"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T20:31:42","slug":"ripened-aged-pu-erh-mini-tuocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2018\/12\/08\/ripened-aged-pu-erh-mini-tuocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripened Aged Pu-Erh Mini Tuocha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>3.5 \/ 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was really excited to try this one, it is the first time I have seen a <g class=\"gr_ gr_678 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"678\" data-gr-id=\"678\">pu<\/g>&#8211;<g class=\"gr_ gr_679 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"679\" data-gr-id=\"679\">erh<\/g> tea cake up close. It was firmer than I expected, with the tea leaves almost flaking off in dry little chunks. When breaking it apart it retained the cake shape more than the individual leaves breaking apart like I was expecting. Another thing I found interesting was is sank to the bottom of the brewing cup almost immediately, and the water remained\u00a0clear except for at the very bottom where the tea leaves were while it steeped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once brewed it was lighter in color than I thought it would be, more a medium red than a darker black. It definitely had the\u00a0<g class=\"gr_ gr_7 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"7\" data-gr-id=\"7\">pu<\/g>&#8211;<g class=\"gr_ gr_8 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\" id=\"8\" data-gr-id=\"8\">erh<\/g>\u00a0scent, but it wasn&#8217;t too overwhelming. The flavor\u00a0was really good, mellower than I had expected, it was earthy and woody. Definitely better than the <a href=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/2018\/11\/09\/pu-erh-dante\/\">Pu-Erh Dante<\/a> I tried a few weeks ago. I did let it steep a little\u00a0longer to see what it would taste like and it didn&#8217;t get bitter, just a little bit stronger peaty flavors. I probably would have rated it a 3\/5 based on the\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tea Leaves: Odorless, dry little tea cake<br>Region: Simao Pu&#8217;er, Yunnan China<br>Brewing: 212 degrees for 2-5 minutes<br>Purchased:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teavivre.com\/ripened-aged-pu-erh-tuocha.html\">Teavivre<\/a>\u2013\u00a0 $6.90 for 1.75oz*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake-2-1024x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598\" srcset=\"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake-2-1024x595.jpg 1024w, \/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake-2-300x174.jpg 300w, \/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake-2-768x447.jpg 768w, \/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake-2.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>This is the tea cake before I broke it apart to brew with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>*Prices are at time of review and may have change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.5 \/ 5 I was really excited to try this one, it is the first time I have seen a pu&#8211;erh tea cake up close. It was firmer than I expected, with the tea leaves almost flaking off in dry little chunks. When breaking it apart it retained the cake shape more than the individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reviewing my first actual Pu-Erh Mini Tuocha","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pu-erh-tea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pu_erh_mini_cake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pakonf-9z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/archive\/teageek\/\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}