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Little red cup is all fair trade tea! This is the only fair trade Puerh I've found so far, and it is quite good!

Leaf smell:

Dry: Chocolate, Fish, Graham Crackers

Wet: Brown Sugar, dry erase marker

Tasting notes:

  • First brew was light and leaned towards dry erase marker with a bit of chocolatey richness.
  • After that brews either tasted quite chocolate with a syrupy background or quite brown sugar esk with a steamed milk background.
  • Each brew got a bit sweeter
  • I pushed brew 6 kinda hard and got a really sweet brown sugar taste.

Tea high: very balanced. Decent energy, but very smooth. Not relaxing, but in some sense I do feel a bit calmer than when I started my session.

Price notes: I got the 3.75oz canister for $16.75. That comes to 15¢/g. So this session of ~5-6g was 75-90¢. That's a fine price for a very solid puerh.

Overall: This will likely become my go to puerh. It is fair trade, tasty, and a nice price. It doesn't have my favorite flavors of leather and wood, but it more than makes up for that by being fair trade. I can have puerh from worse paid workers here and there as a treat.

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[-] opt@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Glad to hear that! Hopefully our posts can inspire even more people to post their reviews

this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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