
Pu Erh Tea: A Guide to Its Origins, Styles, and Brewing
Explore pu erh tea with our guide to Yunnan origins, raw sheng and ripe shou styles, cake formats, and essential brewing tips for crafting…
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Pu-erh is a fermented tea from Yunnan, China, often pressed into cakes, bricks or small tuocha. Ripe (shou) pu-erh is earthy and smooth; raw (sheng) pu-erh starts bright and changes slowly with age.
These guides explain how pu-erh is made, how to break and rinse a cake, and how to brew it in short, repeated steeps. Explore our pu-erh tea collection.

Explore pu erh tea with our guide to Yunnan origins, raw sheng and ripe shou styles, cake formats, and essential brewing tips for crafting…

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