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Thanks yyz for the hint to brew this slightly cooler than I would usually for a black tea to really bring out those delicious cocoa notes.. At 100C all I got was sweet potato and bread, but at 85-90C the aroma and taste of this tea changed to this amazingly malty, chocolatey goodness, seriously the aroma was so fantastic I wanted to fill my bathtub up with this tea and just soak in it!! Unfortunately it was a sip down which means another yunnan sourcing order is in my very near future… just as soon as the imposed budget will allow!

Mikumofu

Hahaha how many of us would take a tea bath if we were able?

yyz

I’m so glad you liked it this way. This is one of my favourite styles of tea:-)

beelicious

Mikumofu: so very very true!!!

yyz: Thank you soooooo much for the hint… it was good at the ‘wrong’ steeping parameters but its delicious at the ‘right’ :D

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Mikumofu

Hahaha how many of us would take a tea bath if we were able?

yyz

I’m so glad you liked it this way. This is one of my favourite styles of tea:-)

beelicious

Mikumofu: so very very true!!!

yyz: Thank you soooooo much for the hint… it was good at the ‘wrong’ steeping parameters but its delicious at the ‘right’ :D

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