It turns out, it’s not a defect.

These are a few chunks of tea I was going to use in my storage experiments.

This experiment, which began on March 1, 2019, should fulfill two purposes. First and foremost, to verify that my hotboxes will not produce defects in the tea. The second purpose, of much lesser importance this early on, is to note differences between young raw puer stored at 36C and 40C.

This post details my personal heated storage system.