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Today I drank the January 2017 offering from Global Tea Hut, 2014 “Old Town Gathering” Shou Puerh Tea. This tea got off to a bad start. It had a lot of fermentation taste and that taste was definitely fishy and funky. I would have expected better from Global Tea Hut. The tea did improve over the course of twelve steeps. And there was little bitterness to this tea. It evolved into a nice sweet tea after the fermentation was history after about six steeps.

I steeped this tea twelve times in a 100ml Teapot with 8g leaf and boiling water. I gave it a 10 second rinse. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min and two minutes.