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Factory deang sour tea imprestions
https://www.chawangshop.com/deang-sour-tea-tasting-set-20g.html

Parameters 5g tea/100ml water, long multi-minute steeps in a gawan, golden orange liquor, the compression makes it take a while to brew, maybe more porous and faster brewing than the farmer tea, the tea chunks still do not open up on their own, again likely a good candidate for simmering on the stove.

Less “urinal pad” or “barn yard” smell than the farmer made version though both of those scents are still present, also has a sort of sweet “artificial” fragrance present, overall the scent seems more mild.

Sour fruit skins, tart herbaceous taste, pleasantly tannic and astringent, moderately biter, lingering drying tartness, still has some drying straw and alfalfa, some lightly smoky notes that remind me a bit of semiaged factory sheng, the “strange” elements from farmer tea seem more subdued here.

The factory tea is quite different than the farmer tea, perhaps more “normal” but still a unique tea, I am not entirely sure which I prefer more more, the farmer tea is more memorable but the factory tea more rounded, if I had to pick I would go with the farmer tea due to the greater novelty of it, both are still probably in “acquired taste” territory but the factory tea is far less so.

My conclusion from the farmer tea review remains unchanged:
>>19768528
>I will probably try to hunt down more of it but I collect weird heicha so that is not exactly a seal of approval, also chawangshop’s sample pack feel a bit pricey for what you get (though I don’t know the normal going rate for deang sour tea), however if you have adventitious tea tastes like me it is worth a shot.