2007 Yang Qing Hao Qi Zhong: Again!

I have posted on this 2007 Yang Qing Hao Qi Zhong ($280.00 for 400g cake or $0.70/g) lots of the years.  I had purchased a bunch of this- tong ++ in 2019 when it was cheaper than it is now and I’ve drank through all but a few cakes mainly because I like the energy boost and well I have a crap ton of young kids….

Dry leaves have a sweet bready sort of smoke sweet incense odour.

Rinsed leaf is bready sweet layered deeper denser sweet odour.

First infusion has a sweet slight smoke odour with a wet and chalky developing feel with a deep cooling throat sweetness.  Big chest beasts and energy boost upwards.

Second has a sweet full wet onset with full chalky finish coco chocolate emerges and melts over the mouth into a chalky slight tight feeling with deep thirst saliva producing.  Big energy release and chest beating.  Long full mouthfeel Qi and sweet taste.  Robust. Qi mind expanding energy burst.

Third infusion is a sweet smoke incense but mainly long sweet taste with a cool deep throat full chalky slight tight dry with long lingering dense taste.  Big qi energy with strong intense chest sensations and palpitations.  Cooled down is dense sweet fruity that transforms to coco.

Fourth infusion has a big sweet pop and salivating with dense bready sweet honey and coco layers in the GI ush the mouthfeel turns from wet to chalky slight tight dry-and full. Big chest sensations and energy exploding. Intense full body energy.

5th has a sweet pop of taste followed by mild bitter and faint coco wet splash then full undercoating of mouth sensation.  Bush chesty beats emery surge up with heart palpitations and intense energy surge.

6th has a sweet onset with faint incense smoke deep robust dense bready woody fruity almost coco finish . Full mouthfeeling. Long deep throatiness sweetness. Spacy energy burst with intense bodyfeeling in the chest.

7th has a watery sweet incense taste with long sweet finish in a deeper denser taste profile thicker mouthfeeling.

8th …The leaves are left in the pot for a few days then I give them a flash steeping…creamy talc chalky full feeling sweet finish.  Strong chest beats still.

9th has a bitter sweet fruity medicinal cooling taste with a deep full dense taste.  Full chalky slight sticky pulling feeling.  Big chest beats. Big upward pull and body energy.

10th is a bitter sweet taste full salivating from some throat pulling.  Beats the chest.  Full mouthfeel is chalky slight sticky tight with sweet finish.

11th sweet fruit chalky mouthfeel sweet taste with chalky almost dry gripping cool breath and sweet fruity finish.  The mouthfeel gets slightly dry candy chalky taste.  Big chest beats and body energy.

12th has a fruity sweet taste with fully chalky mouthfeel and lingering sweet fruity aftertaste.  Deeper cherry and Longan fruity taste.  

Days long steeping is sweet cherries and deeper dried cherries fruit sweet taste.  Oily mouthfeeling.  Oily deeper throat opening sweet taste and saliva producing gobs.

So strong so flavourful so powerful… so good!

Peace