I received this tea as a sample add-in to an order of puerh samples.
The dry leaves appeared to be very heavily roasted, which was confirmed with my first whiff of the pot. Very roasted! I was therefore pleasantly surprised that my first sip was more fruity than roasted. The roast was there underneath, and was dominant in the finish. Still, a pretty good balance. The second steep (1m) had a better balance of fruit and roast in the nose, but not much fruit in the taste. Third steep was similar. All of the steeps were interesting, which I like, but in the end I’m just not into a tea that is this heavily roasted.
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if you happen to have more, try gongfu. DHP is really tasty with short steeps
I’ll do that. This was my usual oolong semi-gong-fu method: 60 sec steeps rather than my 3 minute western method.
Ok. and for roasted Yancha i use 212F ;)
I don’t like to go over 200 F because I really hate bitter.
Good Yancha never gets bitter. But you do what you feel comfortable for you. Try 200F.
if you happen to have more, try gongfu. DHP is really tasty with short steeps
I’ll do that. This was my usual oolong semi-gong-fu method: 60 sec steeps rather than my 3 minute western method.
Ok. and for roasted Yancha i use 212F ;)
I don’t like to go over 200 F because I really hate bitter.
Good Yancha never gets bitter. But you do what you feel comfortable for you. Try 200F.