The most requested shou review – Moychay’s Webpunk shou puer! Why is this the most requested shou review? The wrapper art is so nuts, everyone is curious how Webpunk tastes.
This is the 2020 Webpunk 2.0, made of 2019 Menghai area material, pressed in 2020.
The first tea to put Moychay on my radar was the first Webpunk with a similar meme vomit wrapper. Webpunk’s wrapper is so crazy, I show it to non-tea people to hurt their brains!
Leaf and Steeping Method
Immediately, this wrapper was removed and set aside for framing purposes. If I leave it on the cake, I’ll ruin it eventually.
The dry leaves have a musty lightly decayed forest floor scent. Admittedly, I aired this cake out for a month as it smelled pretty sweaty pile fermentation.
I used 1 gram of leaf per 15ml of vessel size, gongfu steeped with boiling water. After two rinses, this shou smells of hot decaying leaves and sticks.
Tasting of Moychay’s 2020 Webpunk 2.0
First and Second Infusion: Webpunk 2.0 is mainly woody in taste – like petrichor, wet branches, and leaves – the flavor switches at the end to tart red berries before settling into more damp wood. The texture is lightly balmy and the aftertaste is a fleeting fall leaves scent.
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Infusion: Moychay’s Webpunk has gotten more heavy into the petrichor rainy forest, rained on campfire, tart berries, saline, fall leaves, and decaying wood. The broth is a bit watery here and the aroma and aftertaste are slight, but the flavor itself is interestingly forestry.
Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Infusion: With each infusion, Webpunk 2.0 gets lighter, mineral, tart, and trying to hold onto the decaying leaf and wood flavor. The later infusions lose the wood and switch to more of those tart berry notes with a bit of flakey salt on baked goods.
Comments
Moychay’s Webpunk 2.0 is only $13 for a 357g cake (at this time). This shou is daily drinker quality or for those in a tea budget. There are lots of sticks in the material, not much texture, and aftertaste, but the flavor is high in forest and petrichor if you love your woodsy campy shou. Overall, Moychay’s house taste seems to lean on woodsy and tart berry.
Even for $13, Webpunk is fun to own just for the wrapper and would also make a funny gift for a fellow puer drinker.
(tea provided for review)
