Puerh Junky Visits Thick Zen
Puerh Junky Visits Thick Zen is one of a catalog of encounters mental and digital with the steal of ’07 and possibly the aughts overall. We’re talking about Kunming TF’s Thick Zen, a clean and lively Yiwu sensation without the Yiwu price.
Thick Zen called its name for an introduction to someone who has drunk puerh a limited amount and is not altogether clear on the differences between raw and ripe. With a whiff among the two options, she chose the raw. Overall, it has good sweetness, thickness, and complexity. A faint fruity note has fully blossomed. It lies along the backdrop of root beer with a few bitter notes early.
It got pushed at the sixth infusion holding up very well, a nice brown thickness and sweetness and no bitter. The next five infusions continued to surprise in that it had more to give. It is considerably more durable than even a year ago.
This brings up Poison, which is at 18 with as many as five more infusions to go. It’s still quite round, sweet, and smoky, some surprising minerality that often comes with smokier productions. The minerality seems to replace the root beer. Similarly, the fruity note of Thick Zen seems to be creeping in on the root beer but it is hard to say at this point since the fruit seems to be developing independent from the root beer. Is Thick Zen at its root beer peak?
