leeshkone ba'arah'fell- thick tea on a cloudy day

30 sivan 5781

another good tea from the same reddit stranger (mrmopar). this is a 2003 custom 8582 (a classic menghai tea factory recipe but this one is made by a smaller company). i think it has some HK storage storage on it (dry/natural maybe?). a similar tea is sold here (same tea? different storage? idk) but i got my cake from the stranger at a great price of $55 for the cake.

is it an incredible tea? no. is it very good for the price? most certainly. it has that nice aged comforting taste and leans towards the malty grains profile and has a fairly thick tea broth.a lot of the flavor is coming from the storage but i do not mind that because i like hk dry storage. once it gets into the later steeps, it mostly just has that tea leaf taste without much else going on. the qi is nice but not super strong and it feels good on my stomach. it goes for a decent 10 brews which is good for this price and quality. it still has some bitterness to it so it has room to continue to improve.

the term reddit stranger is inspired by this hilarious fake internet quiz.

happy tea-ing

xoxo,
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