Puersuits or Puerversions?
Puersuits or Puerversions takes the reader into the dark recesses of the Puerh Junky’s cave. As the drone zooms in he’s seen muttering something about “porcelain” and “volume”. He’s also distracted knowing that the reader is questioning the absence of the “h” in “puersuits”, given that the Puerh Junky is so fancy as to spell “puerh” with an “h” in the first place. Trying to not get caught in the morass of how Chinese gets romanized, he glibly makes something up. “Everyone knows you drop the “h” before an “s”. That’s the problem. No one obeys the rules anymore,” condescending to no one in particular.
His distemper was becoming more obvious. Taking a chunk from a small porcelain “tea jar” he warms up his workhorse zisha. It’s the ’07 HK Returns cake. It’s delivering its best performance ever, a tribute to Zhongcha Zen style and complexity. Never before had the HKRC “turned over”. Sweetness and volume where all the layers previously formed a cacophony, now they had the space to harmonize. The fuzzy note that sounds in many ZC productions from this year is much more ephemeral in the taste but totally present in the aroma, like fabric softener or sun-dried bed sheets.
“The small porcelain tea jar seems to been unspeakably beneficial for the HKRC, better than previously zisha stored experiments for longer durations,” he thinks to himself. Then his mood turns to all the tea he hasn’t drunk. “Perhaps this puersuit has turned into a bit of a puerversion,” he thinks solemnly, when the thought of the recently acquired HK Returns brick comes to mind.
HKR Square
For whatever reason, each shape tastes different, though there seem to be clues suggesting they’re the same.
The brick is the first wrapper where I’ve seen any indication of the actual recipe, “6581”. It’s still firmly situated in the tobacco class, signs of petrol forming as well. Evocative of Grenouille and Buddha Impressions before getting quite a bit more forceful in around infusion five. Still quite young in some regards. It’ll be an interesting puersuit getting to know more about it compared to the others. Perhaps a sampler wouldn’t be too much of a puerversion.
