Well put. As for me, the tea is better when brewed circumspectly, in smaller amounts. Better tea, and also an opportunity to breathe and focus on something. Also the good stuff is too costly for me to do otherwise. Brewing for a crowd of even two friends is typically a different situation.TIM wrote:Making a lot of tea and making the right amount of tea are two very different idea. [...] both serve very different needs.
This is great terminology.TIM wrote:the difference between "Cow"drinking and "Tasting" tea
Too often I'm the Cow drinker. Even though I'm brewing gongfu style 99% of the time. I'm careful during brewing, I'm smelling everything along the way, monitoring the tea and thinking about the process. But then I sit down to work and drink carelessly. When it gets out of hand this feeds back into the brewing process and I end up with a worse brew. The tea laughs at me.