Bought a young sheng cake on a recommendation and it is aggressive: bitter, drying, and it gives me a strange hollow feeling if I drink it before lunch. Everyone says it mellows with age. Are we talking one year, ten,…
I have been drinking the same roasted oolong for two months, 5g in a 120ml gaiwan, water just off the boil, short steeps. I moved flat and bought a new kettle at the same time, and now it tastes thin and slightly…
Japanese sencha, 4g to 250ml. The first steep at 75C for 60 seconds is lovely. The second steep at the same temperature comes out sharp and drying whether I go 30 seconds or 90. Straining faster does not seem to matter.…
120ml gaiwan, 6g of a mid grade shou puerh, flash rinse and short steeps. Infusions one to three are great, four is thin, five is water. Everyone talks about ten plus infusions. Am I over extracting early, using too…
I drink two or three sessions a day and share a kitchen with three other people, so everything lives in a box on a shelf and comes out and goes back. Budget is about $40 total. I mostly drink oolong and some black tea.…