While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Charles H rolled
initiative and posted the following:

> Bert Fuller wrote:
>
>> I've come across this flavored Puerh here in Poland where
>> apparently it's becoming fairly popular. Not only is it in the
>> tea shops, but some of the major manufacturers are putting
>> (what I assume to be) lower grades onto the shelves of the
>> grocery stores and supermarkets. I searched for it on the Web
>> in English and couldn't find any, so I'm wondering just how
>> widespread it is in the West as of yet.
>
> I live in a city (Kitchener, ON) with a fairly large Polish
> community, and Puerh is available at all the Polish stores... I
> didn't care much for the earl grey, but it was relatively
> inexpensive, only C$1.99 for 100g IIRC. It had quite the
> manurey-barnyard odour to it though.

I'd never tried puerh until this weekend. I got some from my local
tea shop. The owner commented that some people like to spike the
puerh with some Earl Grey. So I got some of that as well.

I'm still working on the balance, but in general, I prefer the
puerh/Earl Grey combination to the straight puerh.

This cave aged stuff just reminds me of shoveling horse manure
during the summer in college - and that isn't exactly a "good"
memory.

--
Derek

Mediocrity takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the
difference until it's too late.