I’ve been having this tea all day, and I am on the third steep of it now. I started out using even more leaf than usual (3 teaspoons to about half a liter or water… my leaf usage appears to be going up. It’s so expensive being me!) and I haven’t added fresh leaf to it since. I’ve doubled the steeping time (two minutes as opposed to just one) on this third cup, and the tea still has lots of life and flavour.
It’s still rather smoky and the sweet fruity note has been coming out as well, although not as much as it would have had I only used the customary two teaspoons of leaf.
It is in fact still so smoky that in combination with a lunch of left over indian food nearly freaking murdered me just now. cough hack
