I was lucky to participate in a Steepster community Pu’er Traveling Tea box!
A traveling tea box is a community put together box full of different teas that is shipped around the country (or world) to signed up participants. Participants sample teas from the box and put in their own teas to replace the teas that were tried. I’ve been in a few large traveling tea box with variety, ones with sample sizes and ones with a specific tea theme. I’ve seen a few pu’er tea boxes not get off the ground as to start a traveling tea box one needs a big selection of teas as well as participants to have to contribute. It’s really cool to see more tea drinkers into pu’er!
This box arrived to me with 63 different varieties of pu’er, with the box being 2.5lb shipping weight! The Tea Owls and I had to go through the teas on the pool table instead of the kitchen island. So much tea! We are going to need a bunch of Tea Owls on hand to deal with all this tea!
Out of all the traveling tea boxes, this one took the most work to go through. There was a lot of pu’er I wanted to try. For many pu’er I could literally drink 1 or 2 all day and if I wanted to sample a dozen teas I’d have this tea box for too long.
As usual, I’m glad to see some favorite tea sellers!
I went through all the pu’er with the Tea Owls and put aside the ones I want to sample.
In the kitchen, Tea Owls are weighing pu’er into 5 gram samples and labeling.
In the dining room, more Tea Owls are packing the samples. I tend to use the sealer when dealing with pu’er samples so I know they won’t contaminate and I can take my time with them.
Teas I’m adding to the Pu’er traveling tea box – DAT DENONG!
The perk of being involved in the tea community is getting in on traveling tea boxes like this! With only paying shipping (though shipping can get pricey with the size of some of these traveling tea boxes and distance to be traveled) will get you the opportunity to try new teas and put in teas you want to share. With that said, totally get involved with the tea community!
