This tea is sweet and delicious. It does have a little fermentation flavor left but not much. It seems like it should have none but it has a little. There was virtually no bitterness to this tea. This is the best Puerh I have drank this week anyway. At only $30 it is a good value too. I only gave this tea six steeps because I have to watch my caffeine intake but it could easily gone for twelve or fifteen steeps. It had not begun to weaken by steep six. I still have the leaves and might go back to this later.
I steeped this six times in a 207ml Taiwan Clay Teapot with 10.2 g leaf and boiling water. I steeped it for 5 sec, 5 sec, 7 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, and 20 sec.
Flavors: Sweet
Preparation
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I used to think that but with such short steeps I think you continue to get caffeine. There was another post where scientists tested the theory that you could home decaffeinate tea that way. They determined you had to steep the tea for something like 6 minutes to get rid of eighty percent of the caffeine. So logically there was more caffeine in the tea to be extracted.
I have recently gotten into tea, and I absolutely love it. But, I am afraid about the caffeine as I am very sensitive to it ( If I drink just 1 glass of coffee I will be shaking for the rest of the day ) So, if I would like to do a tea session with a pu-erh tea like this with around 6 steepings, do you think it will effect me as much as one glass of coffee?
I thought after the first few steeps the caffeine is mostly over? I could be wrong…
I used to think that but with such short steeps I think you continue to get caffeine. There was another post where scientists tested the theory that you could home decaffeinate tea that way. They determined you had to steep the tea for something like 6 minutes to get rid of eighty percent of the caffeine. So logically there was more caffeine in the tea to be extracted.
I have recently gotten into tea, and I absolutely love it. But, I am afraid about the caffeine as I am very sensitive to it ( If I drink just 1 glass of coffee I will be shaking for the rest of the day ) So, if I would like to do a tea session with a pu-erh tea like this with around 6 steepings, do you think it will effect me as much as one glass of coffee?