Great powerful tea, speaks not through aroma, but through the leaves.
Comfy stable sharpness, some dark notes for a young tea, metallic, nice yeasty bread notes, vegetal-herbal | baby bulang
First a bit metallic with a little bitterness, but very comfortable, mineral, bread and aged notes, feels a bit like liquid silver, pure and clean, has some sweetness, which after a few steeps becomes more and more pronounced, well rounded. Qi kicks in
Like silver, not too thick but greatly cohesive
Like water. Feels pure
Some sweetness, not much aroma, but still strength is there somehow, later more refreshing
5
2025-12-06 A tea that wakes you up.
This morning I woke up feeling a little drowsy. Checking the cupboard I found another rest of a sample in the back my cupboard, called āThe Beastā. So what better tea for a day like this?
After the kettle reached temperature - about twenty minutes on my small stove, I took my first sip. It greeted me with a pleasant bitterness, almost like a baby Lao Man E, and immediately lifted my spirits. The tea shines with a what I would call āsilvery metallic tasteā reminiscent of some LME/Bulang teas, yet it retaines a tender heart (meaning a soft silky mouthfeel and character)
The energy grips gently from the start, rising straight to the nerves in my brain and tingling them instantly. A nice wakeup call.
Now Iām on my third cup.
The taste and aroma are still not remarkable, while everything else is. Itās is powerful, clean, and feels like high quality from harvest to storage.
As always, the later steeps are becoming more rounded, smooth, and also simple, still they retain the same āmetallicā character.
Its flavor profile is silvery, rusty, metallic, tangy, astringent, with a woody bass note.
For me, itās a tea for meditation or quiet moments with friendsāan experience that requires patience.
*Sidenote: the taste may also be influenced by the fact that this tiny sample has spent some years locked in a tiny airtight Mylar bag.