mind/switch – bing ’24

Year of produce: 2024, spring
Weight: 357 grams cake/bing or loose
Country: Thailand, single organic tea farm

Details:
thick and at the same time watery first real brew, the pitcher is full of aromas, the energy is fills the body naturally and all is comfortable, the strong flavour of spring that I remember from the EPIC virgin maocha is fully present, the freshness is gone and syrupiness rather prevails, the cup is so fruity that I have sniff it and sniff it again, after a fifth brew a meditative mood creeps in, the rougness of spring tea combined with smooth energy flow creates a vibrating state of mind, the bottom flavour of nuttiness with exotic fruity aftertaste, this could be a tricky tea to brew even myself thinking what the heck is this about, do they give me this rough tea saying this the material for mind/switch? BUT when you ‘look closer’ then you will see/feel that this tea is packed with tremendous potential, full of flavours, scents and full blow of energy, try to brew it light, try to brew it heavy and you will see, and… once you discover its beauty you will understand… a stroke of fruity jam afertaste that stick to the tongue, by the 9th brew the energy becomes too much, brewing 7-8 grams for myself would ‘feed’ at least 3 more friends, what a strenght it has?, …

This bing as all the previous spring is made of selected very few old tea tree trees. Their age varies from 400 to 700 years old. Be aware that this tea is strong so start with lower dosage and brew it rather gently until you are long time hard core puerh drinker.

This year mind/switch is pressed just right, not too hard and not (too) loose. The cakes still has this nice shape and with a bit of skill it can be dismantled pretty nicely.

This year Thai pu-erh teas wrappers are designed by Miloš Karásek, a Slovak artist and my tea friend. The theme is the line that has no beginning and no end. They are printed on a natural paper that is very nice but could be fragile too. So forgive me any small breakages of the wrapping paper that might appear. The whole graphics beauty can be seen once the wrapper is fully unfolded.