Taste & Benefits
Of all the types of tea you can find in the world, Shu puerh tea is among the most mysterious. While other types of tea are categorized by their level of oxidation, Shu pu-erh tea represents a category of fully-oxidized tea, fermented and ripened by time.
This shu puerh tea cake, puerh pancake is pressed more tightly from the edges to the center, dried pancake has a menghai flavor, and affords a bright reddish liquid with pure aged aroma and fine taste, and is characterized by a sweet after-taste all its own.
How to brew ripe pu erh tea?
Warm up the tea pot with boiling water, put about 5-8g pu-erh tea loose leaf, swirl and discard the water. This helps to damp tea leaves, wash and help them to start steeping, repeat the rinse of the tea leaves once more.
After that pour 8 fl.oz of boiling water that about 90-95ºC (195-205ºF) and cover tea pot for 2-4 minutes, and then enjoy it!
Note: Don't allow the tea leaves in your teapot continue to steep.
