Feeling a bit under the weather today for reasons unrelated to tea, but I’ve had Giant Steps planned for today for weeks now. And I wanted to taste it no matter what. It just meant I used only 5 grams instead of my usual 8-10 g, and reduced the amount of tea liquor to tasting quantity. Two rinses on the boil, then did about 8 quick steeps using a gaiwan and about 70 ml water.
Soup came out yellow and lemony tasting, no bitterness in quick steeping. Got a good dry mouth afterward, but I can’t fairly rate astringency due to taking hydrochlorothiazide, amongst other meds, which is designed to remove water from the body, aka water pill. Thus I have artificially dry mouth anyway. I note a nice astringency in a puerh, but rating it on a scale would be unfair to a tea (T).
This will be the only time I will drink my Giant Steps cake, as I plan to save it for my son. A more humorous take on that plan, plus photos, are in my tea blog -——>
Flavors: Lemon
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A friend with lots of dry mouth issues from meds recommends brushing teeth with coconut oil mixed with baking soda or bentonite clay, with cinnamon and or dried peppermint or peppermint oil added for flavor. Might help? Or maybe oil pulling with coconut oil? Dry mouth is the PITS!
I think some of the natural food store’s toothpastes have those ingredients, I probably have one in the bathroom cabinet somewhere. The dry mouth doesn’t bother me much except when drinking astringent tea. I need the water removal so mostly I just feel normal, but it does bother me that the bulk of water being removed is expensive puerh broth. Sigh…
Hope this day finds you feeling better. Read the blog post – Love the Gator. Curious, do you ever get your son to try your tea? Even if he hates it now, it would make it absolutely priceless one day to have that memory attachment. I have two grown sons. One I have shared astronomy with. He will inherit the scopes. The other shares my tea. He doesn’t really get the value of some of the good stuff but I know he would value our sharing.
He actually likes tea, but prefers black tea “the darker, the better.”
I very much enjoyed your writing
A friend with lots of dry mouth issues from meds recommends brushing teeth with coconut oil mixed with baking soda or bentonite clay, with cinnamon and or dried peppermint or peppermint oil added for flavor. Might help? Or maybe oil pulling with coconut oil? Dry mouth is the PITS!
I think some of the natural food store’s toothpastes have those ingredients, I probably have one in the bathroom cabinet somewhere. The dry mouth doesn’t bother me much except when drinking astringent tea. I need the water removal so mostly I just feel normal, but it does bother me that the bulk of water being removed is expensive puerh broth. Sigh…
Hope this day finds you feeling better. Read the blog post – Love the Gator. Curious, do you ever get your son to try your tea? Even if he hates it now, it would make it absolutely priceless one day to have that memory attachment. I have two grown sons. One I have shared astronomy with. He will inherit the scopes. The other shares my tea. He doesn’t really get the value of some of the good stuff but I know he would value our sharing.
He actually likes tea, but prefers black tea “the darker, the better.”