2 of my new bricks direct from China

[countrydirt]

My son and daughter-in-law recently went to China to visit her family. They knew that I was "getting into" tea or at least had stopped drinking coffee so they gave me the pictured bricks as well as another larger brick of black tea.

We are thoroughly enjoying learning more about brewing and getting quite a workout separating chunks out to make our morning cup.

 

[malocchio]

Not seeing any pictures on this end...??

 

[countrydirt]

Well, I'm not seeing them now either. Weird.

 

[countrydirt]

Now I see them? What the heck?

 

[lishijia]

I saw them first time I opened this thread. Not since. In any case, hope you enjoy your new tea!

 

[countrydirt]

Can we see them now!

 

[lishijia]

We can!!

 

[countrydirt]

I think it is something to do with Google photos. I uploaded the last two via tapatalk and directly from my phone photo roll.

 

[Pepin]

Very nice bricks.

How would you describe the taste? Are they black or green tea?

 

[countrydirt]

The round on is green. The others are black teas. So far all we have brewed is the Baishaxi. It has a very mild smoke background and has a classic tea flavor.

 

[lishijia]

The round on is green. The others are black teas. So far all we have brewed is the Baishaxi. It has a very mild smoke background and has a classic tea flavor.

Unless it's mislabeled, the round one is puer (puerh, pu-erh, 普&#27953, not green tea.

 

[countrydirt]

I believe you. Our daughter in law speaks so fast it is hard to understand her when she is translating.

 

[lishijia]

I believe you. Our daughter in law speaks so fast it is hard to understand her when she is translating.

Indeed. She may also have said "green" simply because there is no English "translation" for 普洱 (we just use the sound of the Chinese words: puer), so she very likely just tried to put it into the closest English category of tea: green. And it's true, puer isn't roasted or heavily processed, so young puer is pretty green (in appearance) and vegetal (in taste).

 

[GN?]

Young pu-erh tea is basically green tea.