Sticky Rice Puerh Tuocha is premium puerh tea, with a distinctly sticky rice taste. It boasts a rich, nutty, sweet, and hugely aromatic flavor. Rice aroma and taste balance each other in the cup. The underlying puerh brings an earthy base flavor to carry the rice notes. Sticky rice flavor comes from an herb that smells and tastes like sticky rice.
Brewing Sticky Rice
Brew this tea, and your whole house will smell like sticky rice. This compressed puerh comes in small buttons, or nests, wrapped in paper. Remove the paper before brewing. The nests weigh approximately 5 grams, which will brew 16 oz of tea. As the nest steeps, it gradually decompresses and takes the shape of brewed loose-leaf tea.
A few facts about puerh tea:
- often referred to as a hangover tea
- can help with digestion
- has less caffeine than black tea, because older leaves are used to process into puerh
- is probiotic
- the only tea actually fermented
- is a diuretic
- may help curb your appetite
- originally traded on the Horse Tea Trade Route
While puerh is in the class of dark tea, which is aged Chinese tea, puerh tea must come from the southern region of Yunnan, China. Puerh tea has its origins in the horse tea trade route, where people in Yunnan would trade tea for horses with the surrounding countries. The tea compressed and aged as it was routed through the mountains. It took on the form of tea, which we now refer to as dark tea, or puerh, depending on its origin location.
A favorite puerh
Sticky Rice Puerh is a favorite among of our customers. Take compressed puerh nests with you and brew on the go. They're easy to brew and wrapped in paper in 5g units. Step into puerh with this easy to brew tea, and see why so many other tea lovers enjoy this fermented tea.
