I’ve been enjoying this one this afternoon. I haven’t had more than 1½ cup so far but I suspect it’s going to steep a good many times before it gives up.
I’ve been drinking it while cooking dinner, so I haven’t really paid that much attention to it so far. But it’s not the strongest pu-erh flavour as pu-erhs go, really. It’s quite mild one, this, and pretty sweet actually. There’s an interesting malty, honeyed sort note towards the end of the sip at this point.
That was the second steep. I have now made me a third cup and the flavour, even with the same steeping time as the first two, is more or less unchanged.
Amusingly, I discovered, checking my previous note on this, that I’m using the same unconventional timing system for steeping. It’s a children’s song involving elephants and each verse is just about 15 seconds… Yeah, my tea timer has run out of battery and I can’t seem to find one in the right size, annoyingly.
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I just use my microwave timer. This tea is on my list. One day I’ll order it. I cannot resist the hearts.
I don’t have a microwave. I’m definitely going to have to work something out with timers though. If I can find some with less insistent beeping it would be nice as apparently, according to the boyfriend, ’it’s annoying’. shrug It doesn’t really annoy me, I’m used to it both at home and at work and I know that it stops beeping after a minute, so I can ignore it pretty well while I pour and just turn it off afterwards if it hasn’t already. But under the New World Order it appears that I’ll have to try and find something that is much more easily missed… (I’ll severely oversteep him some Assam one day or something, then he’ll see the usefulness of insistant timers. :D )
I just use my microwave timer. This tea is on my list. One day I’ll order it. I cannot resist the hearts.
I don’t have a microwave. I’m definitely going to have to work something out with timers though. If I can find some with less insistent beeping it would be nice as apparently, according to the boyfriend, ’it’s annoying’. shrug It doesn’t really annoy me, I’m used to it both at home and at work and I know that it stops beeping after a minute, so I can ignore it pretty well while I pour and just turn it off afterwards if it hasn’t already. But under the New World Order it appears that I’ll have to try and find something that is much more easily missed… (I’ll severely oversteep him some Assam one day or something, then he’ll see the usefulness of insistant timers. :D )