NaNoTeaMo, Day 18: “The Making of Misty ‘Peat’ Puerh, Part 1”
In the Fall of 2014, I did a write-up about Misty Peak Teas, and a tea session I had with its head cheerleader, Nicholas Lozito, in his backyard. I had a lot of tea that day, and some of the thoughts swirling in my head were less than conventional. One of them occurred when I noticed this:
Photo courtesy of Nicholas Lozito.
He had a giant bamboo platter of puerh leaves just . . . lying there.
I asked him what they were doing outside.
He replied with a shrug, “Oh, I just want to see what it does.”
He called it his “outside” puerh, and looking at it gave me an idea. One I vocalized. “Hey, do you think you can spare 200-grams of loose sheng?”
“For what?” he answered.
“I want to put it in a bourbon barrel.”