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That is a rabbit hole. My personal advice if someone likes to care: Get a "professional" tea cupping/tasting set. No taste altering filter methods required. M
by 5tefan 6y ago
That is a rabbit hole.
My personal advice if someone likes to care:
Get a "professional" tea cupping/tasting set. No taste altering filter methods required. My best tea related purchase ever.
Quality loose leaf tea from all over the world to develop your taste buds. Please consider that 2g/100ml is too much tea. Don't fall for hyped teas. Find tea shops willing to prepare a sample.
I got this one from a very accomplished tea master during a class he gave:
Low dosage and boiling water and long steeping. Take sips inbetween. Drink it hot or let is sit for an hour. The taste profile changes with temperature. Good teas will taste good. Bad teas will taste bad. This procedure is simple but unforgiving.
- tsimionescu 6y ago> Low dosage and boiling water and long steeping. Take sips inbetween. Drink it hot or let is sit for an hour. The taste profile changes with temperature. Good teas will taste good. Bad teas will taste bad. This procedure is simple but unforgiving. I've usually preferred, and seem recommended, the opposite: high quantities of tea, medium temperature water, multiple short steeping. For good teas, the taste changes with every steeping, with the best aroma often being the second or third. For some teas, the first stepping is un drinkable (especially Pu Erh). Especially for more delicate green teas, pouring boiling water over them will make them bitter, so I would never recommend that. If your tea is ever bitter, even the tiniest bit, that is the fault of your brewing method: either your water was too hot, or the ratio between tea, water, and steep time was too much.
- 5tefan 6y agoA rabbit hole. As I said. Some specialty teas could use a gentle steep. You are right. I like my method. Easy to use. Bitterness is not inherent to tea. I don't accept this in teas.
- tsimionescu 6y agoAgreed, it's all a matter of preference, and likely depends on tea as well. But have you really been able to brew green tea with boiling water without having it become bitter? I've tried with a few teas and never succeeded.
- 5tefan 6y agoI have few green teas left. Preference shifted to black teas and dark, roasted oolong teas. Still have Hubei Cui Lu and one green from Anji region. Another yellow tea. Neither has bitterness. I did have bitter green teas as well. Not much going on for them. Even if carefully prepared. Eventually drank them.