2020 'KUURA-Cola' Ripe Pu-erh Tea
Everyday ripe pu-erh.
You can purchase our new 2024 KUURA-Cola here.
KUURA-Cola is our mainstay in-house ripe puerh tea cake. A blend of material fermented in 2018 and 2019, and pressed in 2020, with the goal of providing an affordable, clean, and workhorse ripe puer for daily drinking. If you’re new to puerh tea, ripe puerh is the most common kind you’ll come across out in the wild, rather than raw or sheng puerh. The tea undergoes wet-pile fermentation for a period of around 40-60 days, turning the tea very dark, rich, and smooth. This process was originally intended as a way to accelerate the ageing of a raw puerh tea, but has evolved into its own style.
When brewed, the tea is dark brown and opaque—looking similar to brewed coffee—and has a thick, rich, earthy flavour and fragrance, with no bitterness. Ripe puerh can sometimes be a little ‘funky’ or have a some fermented qualities in the taste or smell, but with clean processing and some time to age, the result is an smooth and soothing tea. If you’ve never tried a ripe puerh before, it’s one of the most obviously different styles of tea and unlikely to be similar to anything you’ve tried before.
If you’re familiar with the style, we can say this particular tea was produced and blended to be clean, thick, and durable, with a sweet-leaning fragrance, sometimes hinting toward vanilla or sweet wood.
Some people can be particularly sensitive to any sort of fermentation fragrance or flavour; whilst this tea has had some time to age since it’s production, we’d encourage you to let the cake rest a little after shipping to have time to acclimatise. We also like to rinse all ripe puerh twice, rather than just once, to help open up the leaves and clean out any lingering fermentation funk.
Artwork by Sprinks. Pictures by Pingle Pictures.
All orders are shipped from our HQ in Melbourne within 1-2 business days, using Australia Post.
Australia: $9.95 AUD flat-rate standard shipping, free above $75 AUD. $14.95 AUD flat-rate express shipping, free above $100 AUD.
New Zealand: $20 AUD flat-rate, free above $90 AUD.
Asia: $25 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.
North America: $30 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.
Europe: $35 AUD flat-rate, free above $150 AUD.Use boiling water (100C).
We recommend using approx 1g of tea per 15ml of water for gongfu-style brewing in a teapot or gaiwan. Rinse the leaves once and then brew as usual. You can re-steep the leaves several times until there's no flavour left.
For Western-style brewing in a larger teapot, use approx 5g tea per 100ml of water. You can re-brew the leaves a few times.
To brew direct in a mug, use 1-2g of tea in the bottom of the cup, fill to top with boiling water, and drink once cool. Re-fill the cup with more water when you've drunk 1/3rd of the tea. Repeat until there's no more flavour left.
All of our teas are suitable for long-term storage and ageing.
Keep your tea away from sunlight and strong smells, and somewhere with stable climate conditions.
You can keep it sealed inside the re-usable bag the tea comes in, or another non-porous container.