I made a pot of this to go with a cinnamon breakfast bagel this morning. My husband has been asking for black and puerh tea “just in case” it helps against Covid19, and I was getting tired of the same very mild ones all the time. I made this hoping it would pass muster enough, but instead of just passing (he usually wants oolong, white, or green) he said he thought it was really good. He was drinking it sans additions, too. So hooray!
Naturally I showed him some other black teas and rattled the tins, and then let me hear the lack of rattle of this tin. The leaves are too fluffy and light to make a sound! We made two steeps and mixed them together for one big pot. It was gone before we knew it. Good stuff.
This doesn’t have the roughness of some Assams that my poor tummy can’t handle.
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I just finished my first pouch of Mokalbari Assam. It was really good!
Neat! I am so pleased that my husband liked it and is getting used to black tea without milk and sugar. I wouldn’t have guessed he would like this one so much.
“too fluffy and light to make a sound” Nice. Also, that description made me tired. Where is my pillow made of these tea leaves.
I was saving leaves for a tea pillow once upon a time! I need to really do it and make that pillow!
By the way, I am suuuuuuuper jealous of your tea pillow now! Ha ha!
NO I didn’t mean I actually had a tea pillow! This tea just made it sound like a great idea. Oh gosh. haha
tea-sipper: They are a real thing, you know! Years ago I suggestion to save your leaves and dry them thoroughly and keep them until you have enough for a pillow! I did it for a while, mostly with large Ceylon leaves, but stopped saving them because the weather wasn’t good for drying leaves outside and I didn’t want them all soread out in the house,
Hmm.. I did NOT know tea pillows were real. :D
Here is one site recommending oolong, but I think most teas you enjoy can be used…although I don’t know if I would enjoy a shu puerh pillow!
https://www.teafromtaiwan.com/Tea_Pillows
Oh interesting, and the site says the tea pillow will crumble in a month or two, so that means continually collecting more tea to make the next tea pillow. Oh boy. :D
I just finished my first pouch of Mokalbari Assam. It was really good!
Neat! I am so pleased that my husband liked it and is getting used to black tea without milk and sugar. I wouldn’t have guessed he would like this one so much.
“too fluffy and light to make a sound” Nice. Also, that description made me tired. Where is my pillow made of these tea leaves.
I was saving leaves for a tea pillow once upon a time! I need to really do it and make that pillow!
By the way, I am suuuuuuuper jealous of your tea pillow now! Ha ha!
NO I didn’t mean I actually had a tea pillow! This tea just made it sound like a great idea. Oh gosh. haha
tea-sipper: They are a real thing, you know! Years ago I suggestion to save your leaves and dry them thoroughly and keep them until you have enough for a pillow! I did it for a while, mostly with large Ceylon leaves, but stopped saving them because the weather wasn’t good for drying leaves outside and I didn’t want them all soread out in the house,
Hmm.. I did NOT know tea pillows were real. :D
Here is one site recommending oolong, but I think most teas you enjoy can be used…although I don’t know if I would enjoy a shu puerh pillow!
https://www.teafromtaiwan.com/Tea_Pillows
Oh interesting, and the site says the tea pillow will crumble in a month or two, so that means continually collecting more tea to make the next tea pillow. Oh boy. :D