This is my week for the weird and unique.
I used my press to brew this up with 5 oz of boiling water, steeping 45 seconds. The cake came apart easily and filled the water with camellia flowers. If you have had Teavivre’s dehydrated camellia flowers then you have some idea what this is made from. The processing changes the taste. The cloudy apricot brew tastes like a good horse smell combined with pinewood. I catch glimpses of apple or chamomile. It has a sharpness to it like a young sheng. Drying on the front of the tongue. The aftertaste is sweet and lingers.
The second cup at 1 minute is darker and more robust. The horse is more leathery and the pinewood is replaced by something more like a green oolong. The aftertaste is still sweet but more like biting into a plant.
Very hard to describe and very different. Halfway through the second cup I decided to add a small amount of sweetener. It did knock the young bite out of the cup but even sweet tooth me thought it was more of a distraction than a help. Overall I thought this was a fun cup.
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This does sound fun.
I wonder what a cold brew would taste like.
Ashmanra has mentioned cold brewing poo with great success. I have never attempted it. If I get brave enough to try – how do I go about it? Today I was steeping about 5 oz at a time. How much water do I use for the same amount of leaf for cold brewed? I think Ashmanra hot steeps hers a few times then finishes with cold brew but I may be wrong.
I am curious too. I have various sized steeping vessels but have only had success in SBT premade bags in my 2 quart.
Since puerh is so resteepable that I often do several steeps and I get interrupted in some way. I take the still good leaves and toss them in my filter top bottle with some Spring water. Into the frig it goes. (If you use fresh puerh you have to break it up.)
Iced puerh, especially in the Summertime, is very refreshing. Quells your appetite.
How much water is that, Bonnie?
Oh, I have a bottle that’s…um…18oz. And the top I use is a steepware (filters the leaves and fits many bottle brands). You can mix…a little ginger or oolong…pinch of laoshan black…or anything that doesn’t get bitter cold.
5 grams per 18 oz. Okay, got it. I will have to note that somewhere.
This does sound fun.
I wonder what a cold brew would taste like.
Ashmanra has mentioned cold brewing poo with great success. I have never attempted it. If I get brave enough to try – how do I go about it? Today I was steeping about 5 oz at a time. How much water do I use for the same amount of leaf for cold brewed? I think Ashmanra hot steeps hers a few times then finishes with cold brew but I may be wrong.
I am curious too. I have various sized steeping vessels but have only had success in SBT premade bags in my 2 quart.
Since puerh is so resteepable that I often do several steeps and I get interrupted in some way. I take the still good leaves and toss them in my filter top bottle with some Spring water. Into the frig it goes. (If you use fresh puerh you have to break it up.)
Iced puerh, especially in the Summertime, is very refreshing. Quells your appetite.
How much water is that, Bonnie?
Oh, I have a bottle that’s…um…18oz. And the top I use is a steepware (filters the leaves and fits many bottle brands). You can mix…a little ginger or oolong…pinch of laoshan black…or anything that doesn’t get bitter cold.
5 grams per 18 oz. Okay, got it. I will have to note that somewhere.