I’ve been steeping the same bunch of leaves for over a day now, and they are still bursting with flavour at the 2 min steep mark. I’m in the good tea place.
So glad I reordered more; I was starting to forget how obsessed I was/am with it. It’s also neat to note a slight difference in harvests. My new packet is from this year’s harvest, and, for the moment, it’s coming across as less buttery but more potent (fresh?) and creamy. This may also be accounted for in an adjustment of steeping parameters though (steeping it at 85C instead of 90C).
Steep Count: +8
(2017 spring harvest)
Flavors: Butter, Cream, Rice
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8 steeps! wow! and gah!
Good to know that one must have both the time and the enthusiasm for this number of rounds of this lovely tea.
I promise a lot of those steeps came from sheer laziness; I didn’t feel like dumping and cleaning my strainer, and it still tasted consistent. It also helps that I was steeping it by the cup, not the pot, so each steep was but a chug away- I’m on informal, intimate terms with this tea at this point…
It was still going strong this morning but I finally decided to move onto a different oolong. I probably could’ve gotten to +12 if I was more committed. XD
hahha, that sounds plenty committed to me. I go by the cup too. By the travel mug often because I may be even lazier than you, so I boil the variable kettle once and manage to do three steeps and fill three thermal containers to keep me going for a while and warm up my drinking cup as needed.
8 steeps! wow! and gah!
Good to know that one must have both the time and the enthusiasm for this number of rounds of this lovely tea.
I promise a lot of those steeps came from sheer laziness; I didn’t feel like dumping and cleaning my strainer, and it still tasted consistent. It also helps that I was steeping it by the cup, not the pot, so each steep was but a chug away- I’m on informal, intimate terms with this tea at this point…
It was still going strong this morning but I finally decided to move onto a different oolong. I probably could’ve gotten to +12 if I was more committed. XD
hahha, that sounds plenty committed to me. I go by the cup too. By the travel mug often because I may be even lazier than you, so I boil the variable kettle once and manage to do three steeps and fill three thermal containers to keep me going for a while and warm up my drinking cup as needed.