2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu… Oops

 Ok I actually forgot to taste the 2012 Yang Qing Hao Yeh Gu ($480.00 gor 500g cake or $0.96/g in my sequential sampling this past winter/ Spring.  

I purchased a cake of this in January 2021 it was $450 at that time.  My notes are here.   I understood it to be a very high quality… probably the best Wild Tea / Yesheng I had tired.  The new site descriptions confirms that it is just that.  It also sort of confirms the exotic musings of Shah8 that it was likely picked deep in a state forest… maybe even poached he goes as far at painting the lore of this tea…. It doesn’t say that but I just love how Shah8 paints that picture in my mind!

I just wanted to add a few notes to compare it to the rest of the 2012 line up of Yang Qing Hao…. It actually fits in really nicely and I can see that Yang was all about creating very powerful complex forest blends that tilt toward power and extraordinary strong Qi experiences in 2012!

Peace

2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Jen

 

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tian Shan Yi Gen goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very tight pressed Dry leaves smell of dry marsh subtle sweetness and florals.

Rinsed leaves are very creamy sweet and purfume florals.

First infusion has a creamy sweet pudding custard taste. Oily creamy mouthfeel.  Long creamy sweet finish. 

Second creamy brassy almost sour sweet taste with custard like textures and sweet tastes.  Creamy tongue tingling.  Chest heavy feeling and releasing mind feeling.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a sweet cooling liquid custard and creamy tasting. Brassy sweetness.. heavy chest feeling light airy mind.

Fourth has a creamy honey oily viscus sweet taste with a nutty creamy sweet finish.  Sone candy returns and disappears faint bitterness is building lingering coco with that bitterness.  Spacy air mind and heavy shoulders, limbs, face and chest.  The contrast between the heavy bodyfeeling and the light airy feeling in the mind is unique and interesting to me.

Fifth infusion is sweet and evolving taste creamy custard honey linger coco bitterness at the end key feeling. Long creamy custard honey sweet taste with mild bitter coco finish. Almost floating out of body and airy and light feeling Qi.  Freeing and happy.

6th infusion has a creamy custard spicy bready long chocolate coco creamy sweetness.  Very smooth a long with some mild bitterness building at the end into coco. Airy out of body feel.

7th is a sweet wet texture with a honey custard coco mild bitterness. Evolves into the bitter coco it’s not up front. Delicious taste progression.  Big chest beats and freeing mind feeling.

8th has coco creamy almost purfume custard taste with mild oily bitter coco more at the profiles end.  Oily texture with mild silty finish .  Mouthwatering bitt sweet coco. Big chest feeling. Happy airy mind is happy and strongly mentally rejuvenating!

9th is put into a long thermos steeping and it is coco bitter sweet with some chest y qi and very happy high feeling.

10th is an overnight thermos and it is an oily viscus bitter sweet coco with thick textured oily feeling and big chest Qi with strong high happy feeling.

11th the leaves have quite a bit of stamina so I push it into another overnight thermos and it comes out delicious oily viscus coco milk chocolate with bittersweet coco bitterness as well.  Mouthwatering delicious!   Mouthfeel is mildly tight chalky but mainly oily tick textured.  Big qi washes over me still… 

12th Days long steeping is very very sweet vibrant melon tropical deep fruity vibrancy,  delicious pops of candy like strawburst candies.  Faint mouthwatering creamy chili ate layers.

I push this one into a few days long thermos and it still has enjoyable amounts of creamy chocolate and cherry. Lots of dark cocoa taste in this puerh even after many long pushes… the leaves have great stamina….. thicker oily chalky full textures even very faint smoke…I like this one quite a bit.

These two 2012 from Yang Qing Hao have the feeling of high quality Yibang to me… possibly very nice powerful Yiwu as well! The 666 and Yeh Gu are similarly extra powerful!

Peace

Pow! 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666

This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Tei Gung 666 goes for $830.00 for 500g cake or $1.66/g.

Very compressed Dry leaves smell of marsh like hay not sweet.

Rinsed leaf is very sweet pure candy and sort of forest rubbery leaves!

First infusion has a watery sort of creamy minty. Long creamy candy on the breath.  Fluffy full mouthfeel. Chesty flutters and happy spacy mind.

Second infusion has a nice candy taste watery with a full chalky fluffy mouthfeeling.  Long candy finish.  Slight menthol cool breath.  Long candy profile. Sandy chalky fluffy slightly stimulating mouthfeel.  Chest flutters and deep energy uplift with numb face qi!

Third infusion has a woody/hay candy taste. Stronger mouthfeel is slowly building with chest fluttering which is pretty strong sensation but strangely calming.  Left to cool it is sweet honey and candy silty sandy full mouthfeel. Strong chest feeling.

Fourth is left to cool and is a bit sour bitter sweet sort of fruity and woody. Almost mango tasting but not overly sweet.

5th infusion has a sweet sour woody taste sort of mango.  Cooled down is sweet sour mango woody.  No long candy anymore… chest flutters and relaxing mind. Is left to cool… 

6th infusion has a coco woody taste. Sweet chocolate taste creamy chocolate pudding taste now.  Relaxing Qi with face tingling and chest flutters.

7th is woody coco bitterness with a sandy full mouthfeel some chest fluttering and heavy relaxing feeling.  

8th is a woody bitter coco with strong almost throat gripping bitterness.  Bitter woody coco some medical cooling breath. Dry mouth and roof of mouth. 

9th is a bitter woody not much coco a bit cooling medicinal but throat tugging and stomach beating bitterness now…..

These leaves still have lots to offer but too bitter and hard on the empty stomach to continue….

Long mug steeping is bitter woody menthol with chest and face qi and heavy relaxing along with deep uplift and spaced out feelings.

Days long steeping of spent leaf is oily very sweet plum bready oily some chocolate creamy tastes almost nutty with chocolate covered cherries box of chocolate taste is very delicious oily chalky feeling chest heavy feeling. Spacy mind ride.

One more days long steeping continues to push out the good stuff… it is viscus oily slight smoke but a long juicy melon… bitter dark chocolate cherries finish…. Yummy!

This one is a complex powerhouse in taste and Qi…. Pow!

Peace

2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya

This 2011 Yang Qing Hao Jin Ya goes for $420.00 for 500g or $0.84/g.

Tight compressed Dry leaves have a strong piercing sweet odour with deep grapes and hay and forest odours!

First infusion is a flash infusion as per always and is still mainly watery due to the very tight compression but has light watery sweet honey taste.  

Second infusion has a watery sweet honey.  Faint smoke pure sweet.

Third infusion is left to cool and has a mild sweet almost forest sweet taste with subtle smoke.  

Fourth infusion is left to cool and is a sweet mild smoke water with a long smooth mild honey sweet taste.  Honey sweetness.  Mild qi with clear watery sweet honey smoke taste.

5th infusion has a watery sweet honey taste watery clear pure with a heavy mind slowing qi.  Like mind and body is stuck in honey.  Opening chest feeling. Strong qi is quietly building up.

6th has a smoke and honey taste with a heavy body and mind feeling qi.  Silty mouthfeel with smooth smoke and honey and strong heavy feeling.

7th the pot clogged a bit… it has a rich woody resin smooth taste with a bit of bitterness and brown sugar and a long delicious honey taste throughout in a silty wet mouthfeel with a taste that gets stuck in the gums. Big chest opening feeling with some out of body and face tingling qi- heavy glue feeling in the body.

8th infusion has a honey sweet profile smooth long honey with faint smoke mouthwatering feeling.  Big qi in face, heavy body big chest expansiveness! Surging deep uplift.

9th is left to cool and is sweet oily silty honey.  Very delicious tasting with a smooth mouthfeel and long honey sweet taste.

10th has a long sweet honey taste very smooth but still very present mouthfeel.  Silty oily texture and long honey with face Qi opening chest light limbs and heavy shoulders and head. It’s so good!

11th has a wiody slight smoke initial taste with long honey sweetness underneath.  Silty almost dry sandy mouthfeel big qi sensations.  In face, shoulders, limbs and chest!

12th is left to cool and gives off a nice long honey taste.  Subtle smoke and wood.  Silty sandy oily texture.  Big Qi feeling still!

13th is really sweet honey woody hard to find smoke.  Long sweet taste.  

14th has a sweet honey taste nice long sweet honey… yummy the smoke is harder to spot now but it’s there with woody,  sweetness. Long on the breath steady honey.

15th woody sweet honey so good! Very high grade old tree Bulang me thinks!

Overnight mug steeping is very vibrantly sweet oily resin smoke.  Full taste, feel and Big Qi! So delicious!

This is one of my favourite of all Yang Qing Haos productions but probably too expensive for me to purchase… turns out it’s not as expensive as I thought and this one is definitely on my radar to purchase.

Peace 

2011 Yang Qing Hao Kuyun

 

I got this sample from Liquid Proust 3-4 years ago… I mentioned in previous posts that it was pretty good for the lower price range.  This 2012 Yang Qing Hao Kuyun goes for $235.00 for 500g or $0.47/g currently.

The dry leaves smell of sweet cardboard and leaves…

Rinsed leaves have cc a honey subtle smoke odour.

First infusion.. has a light clear sweet very watery sweetness as the leaves were pretty compressed. Almost floral candy faint breath.

Second infusion has a clear watery tiny bit sweet taste.  Very clear watery with faint distant smoke chalky taste.  Somewhat spacy high feeling.  Faint candy floral sweet breath. Light mild happy feeling.

Third infusion has a watery clear mild sweet taste all the way through. Wet mouth subtle smoke base with faint distant sweet aftertaste of sugar. Somewhat spacy high faint chest feeling and a happy high mild feeling. Candy sweet dips and fades on the breath.

Fourth infusion has a mild honey sweet taste with subtle smoke light chest feeling and happy mild uplifting.  Lingering mild honey smoke candy.  Slow chest beats.

5th has a mild honey sweet candy taste long sweet profile. Subtle heart beats and happy feeling wet soft mouthfeel. Long lingering candy breath.

6th has a wet mild sweet honey and candy taste. Chest feeling are mild happy uplifting mild feeling. Long sweet breath. 

7th infusion is left in a cup for a few days… it tastes very oily and sweet candy cherry dark cocoa almost medicinal woody.  Chest feeling and happy qi. 

8th is back into flash steepings here and it is light fruity very faint smoke that fades away and slight woody. Mainly sweet. Happy uplifting.

9th has a sweet fruity peach pear and woody faint faded smoke in far distance.  Happy up lift faint chesty now.

10th is a long minutes long steeping oops.. left to cool and is a sweet oily medicinal woody with long sweet profile faint distant smoke and peachy fruity sweet taste.

Long mug steeping of spent leaves… is an oily sweet bitter with long oily sweet fruity taste.  A nice sweet easy to drink tea for the price.

Peace

2011 Yang Qing Hao Tian Tsang

Ok I stated the notorious 2011 Yang Qing Hao line up with this 2011 Yang Qing Hao Tian Tsang that goes for $800.00 for 500g or $1.60/g…. I have been really looking forward to trying this 2011 years line up ….

Dry leaves are very tightly pressed have a sweet honey smoke reminds me of Menghai not Yiwu immediately…

First infusion is still watery from the tight compression … should be a longer session watery faint hard to grasp sweetness.

Second infusion has a faint smoke and tobacco leaf taste.  Mouthwatering feeling.  Sweet returning.  Vibrant sweet mild underneath. Still pretty mild but tastes are emerging seems like it’s going to be a really nice Menghai/ Bu Lang long shot for Ban Zhang…

Third infusion has a very light smoke with long sweet taste. Sort of buttery caramel tobacco leaf mild taste.  Cool breath relaxing ease of mind a happy focus. Long mild delicious sweet finish. Chest beats.

Fourth infusion is a smooth sweet taste throughout long mild slight complex in the way it gently evolves.  Mild taste smooth.  Chest beats and energon relaxing focus.

5th has a sweet almost tobacco leaf subtle smoke with long sweet almost caramel sort of taste.  Wet soft mouthfeel and strong chest beats and chest sensations.  Such a nice focused chill vibes.  Happy high focused with strong chest thumbs.

6th is left to cool and is a sweet wet smooth sweetness with faint hard to grasp smoke.  Big chest beats and expanding chest intensity.

7th has a sweet soft smoke long wet mouthwatering caramel sweetness.  Big chest feeling juicy long sweetness that lingers long on the breath as if it’s reaching with sweetness. Big relaxing sighs with strong chest feeling!

8th … I re-visit the leaves the next day and dive right into the flash steepings… it’s is quite sweet very smooth rich velvet with a returning sweetnesss within a long initial-to-breath sweetness.  Mouthwatering and oily wet mouthfeel.  Yummy high quality Bulang/ Ban Zhang here!

9th pot clogged a bit… smooth sweet oily mouthwatering with faint smoke… big chest beats and happy high energy surge long sweet profile mild but noticeable classy smoke.

10th a sweet honey thick oily long taste from initial to breath smoke is glassy but chest beats mild silty mouthfeel on tongue now.

11th has a oily wet long sweet profile becoming more silty and slight rougher smoke.  

12th is left to cool and has an almost mesquite bbq smoke taste- sweet mesquite!  A smooth oily wet mouthfeel as it cools down.  

13th has a sweet vibrant still almost peachy sweetness that is long with silty smoke.  Long sweet fruity on breath!  

14th has a wet oily mouthfeel with silty smoke underneath mainly sweet. Smokey sweetness.  Big chesty feels still with sleepy relaxing and big energy focus.

15th is sweet silty oily long sweet with silty smoke. Oily chalky feel big qi builds in chest and mind upward.

I put the rest of the still somewhat compressed leaves into a long mug steeping… it is quite oily and nicely sweet throughout with a long oily rich sweet taste.  Very rich oily viscus sweet taste. Some bitterness and smoke. Big chest qi feeling and happy energy surge and high.

Very high quality Bulang me thinks! Me like E!

Peace

Sneak Up!!! 2010 Yang Qing Hao Shen Yun Tian Cheng

This 2010 Yang Qing Hao Shen Yun Tian Cheng goes for $1020.00 for 500g cake or $2.04/g  is another of the really expensive … it claims to be high quality Bo He Tang on the site and I can concur to the best of my abilities that this could be early Bo He Tang on the wild side!

Dry leaves are a woody papery dry sweet almost tobaccco faint leaf odour.

Rinsed leaves have a warming spice sweet woody odour.

First infusion has a warming spicy woody almost honey or brown sugar with a metalic malty sweet taste.  Sticky full mouthfeel with some bitterness in the mouth.  

Second infusion has a sour sweet almost fruity orange blossom not really with a brassy malty sweet taste.  Slight bitter and sour more than sweet. Oily texture with thicker chalky feeling.  Very nice sweet floral almost purfume finish.

Third infusion is left to cool and is a malty sweet with a sweet floral malty honey finish.  Sticky a bit thicker mouthfeeling with deep honey lingering on the breath minutes later.

Fourth infusion is a sweet creamy honey sweet taste.  Long creamy sweet with honey layer. Oily chalky sweet honey is nice with a light chest beats and swelling chest and mild happy focusing.  

5th has a sweet pear and honey onset with an oily thicker chalky feeling.  Swelling chest.  Creamy chalky sweet with deeper honey layer.  Happy mild high feeling.

6th has a sweet almost sour honey taste with oily mouthfeel and menthol finish.  Mild happy feeling.  

7th has a sour plum sour slight bitter/ astringent with a woody creamy sweet and honey flavour underneath. Mild happy feeling.

8th is a honey sweet taste with long honey finish.  Mild chest and happy feelings.

9th has an apple and spice and woody taste with honey base.  Happy relaxing mild qi with mild chest sensation.  Nice honey long base taste.

10th has a cookie and honey sweet taste tastes of almond and honey is very delicious.  Chest is fluttery and I feel an anxious energy lingering.

11th has a brassy sweet honey taste with an anxious energy in the chest.  Powerful slow build up in the chest and mind. Trapped build up of chest energy feels like anxiety maybe.

12th I put the spent leaves into a long thermos steeping… it is honey berries sweet with cooling almost menthol berries.  Silty sweet berries long taste and finish.  Still some chest feelings and energy.  

Has nuances/ character of wild tea/ Yesheng such as long lingering taste and energy that can feel anxious.  There is a uniquely amazing quality about the Qi of this tea- it is quite relaxing enjoyable and unassuming until it isn’t and the Qi all of a sudden hijacks you… and you experience this spectacular surge of almost anxious energy in the chest…. It’s an experience for sure!

Peace