r/puer

Recently found an obession in pu-erh when I was visiting my brother who drinks alot of tea. Today i got a big haul of different kinds of pu-erh from different years.

Hello ppl,

I found this website https://teagallery.eu/

Anybody had experience with them and if its nice and legit any recommendations or your favourites

[7g 130ml] Wet aroma - Incense + a bit of smoke.

This xiaguan is quite nice for the price which is $34, it's not super smokey like some xiaguan but a smooth flavor with a incense backbone. Good tongue coating and a bit of warming in the chest. Very pleasant tea on this rainy spring day. Cheers!

I bought a cake of this 7582 2 months ago from Quiche, it's been a very nice daily drinker and I have about 100g left, I've been warned it's "too young" and it's true but still 100% drinkable

I just realized this whole tea set is under 30$, value gear and value tea

Tried W2T 2013 New Amerykah today for the first time after letting it rest for a month.
7g in 120ml gaiwan
212 starting water with a reboil at steep 8

Two quick rinses, then 7s / 10s / 10s / 12s / 10s / 20s / 30s / 45s / 60s / 20s.

The first steep was relatively calm compared to what I was in for. Nice clear amber liquor, some light smoke, subtle bitterness, and a drying finish. By steep 2 (10s) it really woke up. It still has a lot of young sheng characteristics despite its age like lots of green woody raw puer flavor, stemmy/ vegetal aroma, strong bitterness, and intense drying sensation.

At 10-12 seconds it got intense fast. Not much camphor or cooling, but at steep 6 (20s) there was a weird, sharp vegetal quality in the back of my nose after smelling.

By steeps 6 and 7 the bitterness calmed slightly and it became really enjoyable, highlighting more medicinal vegetal bitterness that’s much softer than before. I reboiled before steep 8 and it roared back to life, and while the color lightened slightly, the remaining steeps 7 (30s), 8 (45s) 9(60s) were strong raw puer, nicer bitterness than during steeps 2-4 and an continued intense drying sensation.

Steep 10 was 20s because I couldn’t handle anymore. I might revisit later today.

The leaf quality is mixed. Some intact leaves. Not the prettiest but it smells extremely fresh and clean.

Without getting too woo-woo, the body effect was calming but sensory-heightening. I felt really in tune to sound, as if I could hear every little sound my home was making. Perhaps it was just because I was sitting quietly.

Anyway, this was a really fun experience for me to try one of W2T’s early cakes. I’m not sure I could have drank this when it was first released. Definitely not a daily drinker, but a solid session.

After drinking this, I think raw is more dynamic and ripe is smoother. Raw puer has a slightly sharp taste while ripe puer had earthy, mellow profile with soft sweetness from the very start. I liked ripe one more.

First time posting here, but curious if anybody have any experience with the '25 Yunnan Sourcing "Silver Label" Wild Arbor White Tea 7g Mini Cakes and wanted to compare notes? I just received my order from YS today and tried one immediately. Was a very refreshing soup with lots of fruity and floral notes, and a few light campfor moments. I brewed this grandpa style in a thermos. Deep color, round body, and a nice hui gan. Only did two steeps of around 500ml, with the second being a mellower echo of the first.

I am still quite the neophyte when it comes to quality whole leaf. Just a few weeks ago I had nothing, and now I have a set of proper tools and over a kilo of teas. I got sick of drinking crap western tea and decided to invest. Most are shou and a couple Fu bricks (really intersted in the benefits of Golden Flowers and I enjoy the earthy/mushroom/woody flavors), so I've got quite the array to peruse. So far only one has been a real dud. Looking forward to trying the '25 Fuding "Bai Hao Yin Zhen" Silver Needles White next. My wife is not a fan of my new rabbit hole, but hey... it's not heroin!

Also, gotta give a big thanks to r/tea, r/puer, r/gongfutea and Jesse's Teahouse for all the enabling... I mean knowledge! Cheers!

This is a kunming/taiwan stored tea, it has a delightful crisp fruit scent. The taste is somewhat fruity not astringent whatsoever and almost has like a aged taste to it which striked me suprised as it's only been aged for 6 years. Would i recommend this to people, yes! It's honestly a great bang for your buck for only $25. (Forgot to also share this in this sub lastnight...)

I dont know much about puer. I bought random stuff from Hongkong and Guangzhou

We love puer. Got a few different types of puer from our friends in Yunnan and Fujian Province.

1 ball/105mL gaiwan, just off boil

Wash (15s) - aroma of rice/straw

Steep 1 (flash) - grassy-sweet up front, light leathery bite, bit of a coating on the tongue, fruity and herbal aromatics

Steep 2 (flash) - grassy-sweet up front note remains, leathery bitterness continues, getting some astringency now more than slickness as the tongue coating sensation

Steep 3 (30s, accidentally oversteeped) - tannic black tea sensation and sharpness, astringency way up, sweetness faintly developing in finish on cheeks

Steep 4 (15s) - a bit more sweetness up front, light fruitiness in aromatics to support it (underripe nectarine), bitterness and astringency backing off now, not much action in the finish

Steep 5 (30s) - no new developments, sweetness is light and early, faint nectarine rind note, light coating mouthfeel

Steep 6+ (45s+) - sweetness coating tongue lightly into the finish now, warming sensation developing in my face and ears

Overall Impression - I can't get the characters in the info panel to show up clearly enough to use Google translate on my phone, but there appears to be a 2023 production date, and the characters on the front appear to be Man Song. This dragon ball was included as a freebie with the 2026 Spring sheng 5-pack I bought. Compared to those, this tea definitely seems a bit better quality. The mouthfeel and flavor are definitely popping a bit more, but overall it is still rather nondescript and not particularly exciting. It was good to get a taste of some better (but still low/mid-tier) quality tea from ShuDaiZi to try something from a different range. It seems like OK low-mid tier puer is their thing. It was good to try them out, but I don't know if I'll be ordering from them again any time soon.

I ordered 2 of the LiquidProust hookups on Etsy which cost $40. If anyone can give me some more info on each of these teas I would greatly appreciate it 😁