Drank the last of this one the other day and actually got a measure on the amount of water I used, which is not typical. I used the last four remaining grams from my order and added 53 ml of water for the first steep.
One of the things about the first steep with Japanese greens is that the leaves always absorb SO much water that you get back much less than you put in. I probably got around 20 or 30 ml of liquor to actually drink from this steep.
The leaves were expanded with the water they’d absorbed in the next steep, so I only had room for 29 ml of water, though I probably got most of that back. All in all, I’m glad I decided to measure this with the last of these leaves, as it gives me a better idea of what kind of ratio gives me the flavor concentration I look for instead of relying on the size of the vessel to do that for me.
