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Welcome new members! What is your preferred brew/steep method? (self.tea)

submitted 1 year ago by aika to c/tea

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Hi! Please make yourself at home c:

As titled - what is your preferred brew or steep method?

What do you drink the most? Hot or cold?

I drink a lot of oolong and pu-erh teas brewing gong-fu style and I have yet to try coldbrew c:

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[–] aika 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yum! I see that it's shu, how does this one taste? Also, that mini shiboridashi-ish thing is pretty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was a fairly aged cooked (about 10 years, IIRC?) so it was very earthy and almost mushroomy in the aftertaste. One of the more mellow ones.

Personally I prefer raws, though. The cooked, however, are more forgiving and more suited to off-the-cuff brews like the one there: the raws require very precise timing to avoid that flood of bitters; I'd use a full-on tea set most times.