Sipdown no. 28 of 2018 (no. 384 total).
Lately, I’ve been making sure I always have a pitcher of cold tea in the fridge. The kids, especially no. 2, really like tea but can’t tolerate the heat until it’s lukewarm. They really prefer to drink it cold, and since I need all the help I can get to clear out my out of control and increasingly aging tea collection, I’ve been enlisting their help.
This is going to sound more OCD than it is, but my system for selecting the next cold tea candidate is to pick one, generally a black tea or maybe an oolong, that I have enough of to make a full pitcher, and that is currently the lowest on my Steepster rating scale. This on the theory that I’ll be saving the ones I liked better to drink hot (at least until I catch up to those as well).
Most of this tin went to cold tea as it wasn’t particularly impressive to me hot. In fact, I’m bumping it down to the merely good category from very good in this final note.
It was a perfectly fine iced tea. No. 2 drank it in quantity. I’ve now put the very last bit in the fridge to steep, but since I only had enough for half the spoons, I had to mix it with a couple of other teas to get a full pitcher’s worth. I included the last little bit of the Premium Steap Black (India) Single Estate Assam Sessa FTGFOP1 and some of the Rishi 2nd Flush Darjeeling Muscatel from this morning. We’ll see what that does.
Your process doesn’t sound OCD like at all. It sounds very smart.
Thank you. :-)