The chance of buying a fishy cooked pu erh tea is a lot lower with loose pu erh.
Pu erh tea taste.
The other explanation for the dirt note is a personal taste.
It calls itself a chen nian pu er tea it says its a ripe 2year pu erh but does not state the actual date of production.
After appropriate storage and aging of the tea the taste of pu erh should be mellow and smooth.
This means that you will find honey flowery notes and maybe a bit of nuttiness and this is mostly true for the green varieties.
Sometimes pu erh tea can taste like fish which could mean that it was stored in unsanitary conditions.
So i bought this pu erh from one of my local international markets.
Some raw pu erh has a vegetal seaweed taste.
Some people will describe this as fishy.
Pu erh tea tastes like fish.
Pu erh tea can taste like many things since it s a versatile tea and it s also got two distinct categories black and green.
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.
While ripe pu erh can taste like dirt a raw pu erh can sometimes taste fishy.
The liquor feels soft and silky in the mouth and the throat.
I get home and excitedly opened the package to find it a loose leaf pu erh.
There are a few ways to explain.
The taste of pu erh.
The world wide popularity of pu erh tea started only about 50 years ago when the ripe pu erh was invented.
The loose variants will commonly taste very earthy and wooden with some acidic notes.
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.