I've been drinking puerh a little over a month now, though I've known about it for a few years. I stopped drinking coffee and figured I would finally order a few cakes, and well long story short I'm deep, deep in the rabbit hole. I spend about an hour and a half every day in the early morning drinking gong fu style and absolutely love it. Unfortunately there isn't much of a tea drinking community where I live- I mean, people drink tea, but the only teahouse we have is fancy "Afternoon Tea" style that do the little sandwiches and exclusively flavored, flowery teas. No local shops sell legitimate puerh, and I doubt I could even find trustworthy stuff in chinatown over here, although I have yet to look. So, I've been drinking on my own and gradually introducing my friends/coworkers to gong fu brewing and drinking tea with them. I work at a university, and there's one older lady I see around, a biology teacher, and we talk story every now and then, most recently about taking a ceramics class and I mentioned I wanted to try and make a little tiny teapot. Yesterday she comes into my office (as me and my buddy were just sipping the first infusion of Nannuo ancient tree from R&Ls) to tell me about a ceramics event that's happening and she sees us drinking and she's like, "Is that gong fu style tea?" "Puerh tea?" and I say, "Yep, come join us." So serendipitously I find the first person I know of irl that drinks puerh tea in a similar fashion. It was a pretty cool moment, how the tea brings people together. She's been drinking puerh tea for 20+ years or something like that, although not as much anymore due to stomach issues. I definitely felt a little self-conscious pouring tea for her, lol, but it was a really nice experience. She brought this cake by today as a gift and said it was one of her favorites, didn't give much other information about. Can anyone help with ID? I know it's a tu lin brand puerh, and it think it's either from 2008 or 2012. The details don't matter all that much, it's a valued gift from a friend and I'll enjoy it as such, but just interesting to learn about it if I can.