Honey Black Pomelo Tea Balls Like some of our Dong Ding Oolongs, this tea has hundreds of years of history. This unique tea is high-quality Honey Fragrance Black Tea mixed with the pulp of a Pomelo before being placed back in the intact Pomelo peel and then processed in the traditional Hakka way. Through a series of steaming, sun drying, and baking steps these ingredients create a tea ball that can be aged or drunk right away, and which has a unique flavor profile that you can't find anywhere else! Unmistakable medicinally flavors of this more traditional tea are a stark contrast to the other types of Hakka tea that we offer on the site. Strong citrus, sour notes, bitters and black tea are the name of the game for this one. Used as a medicine for colds and the flu in the past, you can understand why this tea would have been used for medicine! These are living teas and will only get better with age. If you do plan on aging this tea make sure the area you store it in is dry with no strong odors. Throwing it in a ziplock bag would be a good idea as well, but don't forget to let it breath every once in a while! **Like all our teas, there are no artificial added flavors, colors or chemicals in this tea. All flavors are completely natural and agrochemical-free!** Elevation: 300m Status: Agrochemical free garden Cultivar: Big Leaf Oolong and Organic Valencia Orange Season: Winter 2021 Method: Traditional Hakka Dried Fruit Tea Processing Region: Rueishuei, Hualien Recommend Brewing Style: ~100C water, 5-10g of tea and peel You can treat it like a puer, or a black tea, or even a pour over coffee. Water-to-tea ratio is also up to you. You can include the orange husk or just chip out the tea. It seems drinking it with the peel is a much better experience as the fruity sweet sour taste is more pronounced. Treating it like a puer with short steeps seems to work well also. ***While this tea is legally preserved for export, it may fall under gray areas for some bureaucrats/zealots. If it does get confiscated unjustly at customs please rest assured that we will refund the money to you. We will take that risk upon ourselves!*** For more information on how to break and brew these teas please see the video below. Brewing Difficulty - Intermediate: Works well with all methods but has unique flavor profile (More Details Here) View this post on Instagram Today on the live session we broke into three different tea balls and sampled them. Pomello, lemon and Valencia orange. Beautiful teas all of them! They will be on sale this Sunday for the newsletter subscribers first. A post shared by Mountain Stream Teas (@mountain_stream_teas) on Jul 2, 2020 at 8:27pm PDT
