Tea review: 2014 aged da hong pao oolong tea
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spiraliciousTea Month 2026: Tea 22
Tea Review
Name: 2014 Aged Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea
Brand: unsure, vendor: Bana Tea Co.
Type: oolong
Brick
Notes:
Tea Guy described this tea as fully oxidated and "super super" roasted. This tea came in a pressed brick that resembled a bar of baking chocolate. Which is only sort of funny because when it was passed around before brewing, it smelled like a molasses cake. You break up a piece of the brick before brewing. Tea Guy warned us to be careful when buying brick tea because when you are first searching for it online, most of what comes up are these very beautiful brick tea sculptures, which are technically drinkable, but they use the lowest grade/worst tea to make those and are more meant to be art. The tea was very Amber colored. I had trouble describing the taste. Woody & smoky were the closest I could come to describe what I was tasting. Someone else said it had a malt flavor. I did like it, it just sort of evaded my vocabulary. Mostly, it made me think of campfires and smoke rooms (where meat and cheses would get smoked or dried) where I would be charged with keeping the fire going while men sat around talking, drinking whiskey, and smoking pipes all night when I was a kid.
Rate
Appearance: 7
Aroma: 7
Flavor: 7
Overall Rating: 3 stars
Tea Review
Name: 2014 Aged Da Hong Pao Oolong Tea
Brand: unsure, vendor: Bana Tea Co.
Type: oolong
Brick
Notes:
Tea Guy described this tea as fully oxidated and "super super" roasted. This tea came in a pressed brick that resembled a bar of baking chocolate. Which is only sort of funny because when it was passed around before brewing, it smelled like a molasses cake. You break up a piece of the brick before brewing. Tea Guy warned us to be careful when buying brick tea because when you are first searching for it online, most of what comes up are these very beautiful brick tea sculptures, which are technically drinkable, but they use the lowest grade/worst tea to make those and are more meant to be art. The tea was very Amber colored. I had trouble describing the taste. Woody & smoky were the closest I could come to describe what I was tasting. Someone else said it had a malt flavor. I did like it, it just sort of evaded my vocabulary. Mostly, it made me think of campfires and smoke rooms (where meat and cheses would get smoked or dried) where I would be charged with keeping the fire going while men sat around talking, drinking whiskey, and smoking pipes all night when I was a kid.
Rate
Appearance: 7
Aroma: 7
Flavor: 7
Overall Rating: 3 stars
