This ti,e I decided to see how far I could take the tea. I brewed it in my new 50ml teapot by Bero from Puerh.sk. I gave the leaves eighteen steeps. It was pretty much played out at eighteen steeps. I suspect if I had the patience for 10 minute steeps I would have gotten two more out of it. This was initially on the sweet side until it opened up and then a bittersweet note took over. This didn’t last long and the sweet note took over again. I guess you could call the sweet note in later steeps fruity but by the eighteenth steep this note was pretty much gone. It was still sweet just not as flavorful. Eighteen steeps is really a lot for any puerh and these were not ancient tree leaves. It is still an incredible puerh that I recommend people buy a sample of to taste for themselves.
I steeped this eighteen times in a 50ml Tetapot with 4.4g leaf and boiling water. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 20 sec, 25 sec, 30 sec, 45 sec, 1 min, 1.5 min, 2 min, 2.5 min, 3 min, 3.5 min, 4 min, 4.5 min, and 5 minutes.
