Hoping this reprieve is on its way to PA, brutal hot for early April.artmom wrote:As it is rainy, dark, and gloomy here this morning (after record heat for two days) I thought I'd treat myself to some Mariage Freres Marco Polo! Usually, I save it for my four o'clock "cuppa," but it worked for my "elevenses" today!
My target is 5 for most teas, if I go beyond 5 I begin to get a bit bored regardless how good the tea might be. Sometimes I will set it aside, move on and then return to it later if I am getting more than 5 steeps.
So, the desire for variety take precedence over the need for more steeps of one tea.
But for Japanese greens, they seem to always fall right into the 5 steep area for me, sometimes more and virtually never less.
For this reason, I tend to brew more in the TC donned "semi Gong Fu method instead of the full throttle versions.
Yes, very well said.Seeker wrote:Also - since this is so subjective - perhaps we could all answer this way...
How many do each of us typically coax out of a tea on average, all things taken equally. I come back to... 3.
Began the TD with Gyokuro Suimei from Den's followed by matcha with Mrs. Chip.
Tonight will probably be a pau d'arco tisane.
