*Rare* 25-year Puer Aged in Bamboo Stick - Year of the Wooden Snake

• Puer tea aged in a bamboo stick.
• This is a handmade artisanal product - great for displays and an interesting talking point amongst your tea friends.
• You can drink the tea from it: Open it up on a special occasion and enjoy its unique flavour.
• The puer tea has a rounded, earthy flavour with a subtle smoothness. The tea has an additional characteristic is an added bamboo flavour note. The flavour evolves. over multiple brews.
• This tea was aged in China then imported to Taiwan. Our tea friend in Taiwan aged this tea for an additional 25 years. It has been further aged in the UK.
• As a handmade product there will be some size and weight variations in each product.

Reeves' Brewing Instructions

Remove the puer tea from bamboo stick - the tea is tightly packed inside. The most effective method requires caution! Put a (clean) flat screwdriver or chisel onto an edge of the upright stick. Hammer the screwdriver or chisel until the stick splits. Use your hands to break the stick in half and access the tea. Some will be loose and some will be compressed.

Another method involves sawing it open. Again use caution!

You can also use a a long sharp tool or metal chopstick to poke at the tea while inside the stick. However, this may not release all of the tea.

To brew the tea: for each 100ml of tea required, use 2g. Rinse the loose tea with boiling water for 5 seconds. Then, pour the required amount of boiling water (using a 2g tea to 100ml water ratio). Brew for 4 minutes. After brewing, retain tea for up to 5 brews per day. Subsequent brews can be shorter, depending on your taste.

For the compressed tea, you should carefully break it up with a sharp tool before brewing. Or, you may choose to add extra brewing time to the first brew (similar to brewing a puer toucha).

Reeves' Spec Sheet

• Due to the artisanal handmade nature of this product, there are variations in weight and size. Typical weights of the entire bamboo stick vary from 120g-150g. Length typically varies from 30-35cm. A stick normally contains 40-60g of tea.
• Origin: Yunnan, China; aged in Taiwan and the UK for over 25 years.

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