Tea Of The Year 2024

 

My tea of the year (drumroll) are old Baishaixi tea bricks. But there is a caveat. This tea has to be boiled. 

Place 3g of tea adding a mug of water into a pot.  Let the tea come to a small simmering boil for about 2 minutes. Switch off the heat and let the tea sit for another minute before pouring out the tea. Enjoy.

I had found that boiling Baishaxi tea makes for an extremely nice tea session. The aroma has a sweet dried berry fruit scent.  Using an older Baishaxi that is 10 years old or more makes the tea extremely smooth, sweet and mouthwatering.  Very addictive. 

If you brew this tea using the kung fu method, you would need to use more tea leaves (8g or more) to bring out the taste and aroma. I found out that boiling the tea brought  out the full flavour. 

I decided to name this boiled Baishaxi tea as tea of the year for a few reasons. Baishaxi bricks usually come in 1 to 2 kg sixes. Such a brick, if you brew 3g twice weekly will last you for a very very long time to finish a brick. 

Baishaxi black tea bricks are inexpensive when compared to pu erh and oolongs.   I would recommend that if you intend to buy a Baishaxi brick to start your tea boiling adventures, you should get the higher grade ones as the low grade Baishaxi range has more tea dust in the bricks. 

I am opening an old Baishaxi brick and will put some of this tea in my online store. 

To all my tea friends and readers, Merry Christmas.