I get home and excitedly opened the package to find it a loose leaf pu erh.
Pu erh tea taste.
The taste of pu erh.
If this is the case there s nothing wrong with the tea and you probably don t like it.
Some raw pu erh has a vegetal seaweed taste.
The world wide popularity of pu erh tea started only about 50 years ago when the ripe pu erh was invented.
The liquor feels soft and silky in the mouth and the throat.
The loose variants will commonly taste very earthy and wooden with some acidic notes.
While ripe pu erh can taste like dirt a raw pu erh can sometimes taste fishy.
The other explanation for the dirt note is a personal taste.
Sometimes pu erh tea can taste like fish which could mean that it was stored in unsanitary conditions.
Pu erh tea tastes like fish.
This means that you will find honey flowery notes and maybe a bit of nuttiness and this is mostly true for the green varieties.
Due to the fermentation process pu erh tea has a unique pungent or funky taste but this is mixed with other flavors such as sweetness bitterness and.
The chance of buying a fishy cooked pu erh tea is a lot lower with loose pu erh.
Ripe pu erh has a very unique earthy note that can t be experienced from any other tea.
What does pu erh tea taste like.
So i bought this pu erh from one of my local international markets.
As loose pu erh tea generally ages faster and through this process loses unwanted smells and taste you might want to try loose cooked pu erh tea before completely giving up on it.
Some people will describe this as fishy.
There are a few ways to explain.