So I did something I NEVER do. And I feel guilty, but not really.
I added milk to this tea.
I know most of you are thinking that adding milk is not really a mortal sin. But it kinda is for me. I drink almost all of my tea straight. Except for cold shaken matcha where I add a little bit of sugar. Chai only has milk if it is steeped in milk. And so on.
So I brewed this up this morning and there just wasn’t that magic that was there the first time. There was really not much citrus, there was no creaminess, and definitely no sparkle. It was still good enough to drink but it was not amazing like I remembered it to be.
So mostly because I was too lazy to carry the old tea leaves to the garbage I made a second steep, which is also unusual for me………what is up with me today?!?
And I added some milk…
It was definitely creamier with the milk. Still not much citrus. Better this steep then the first one. Not sure what I did to it for the first steep. Maybe the water was too hot, or too cool, who knows. Just an off tea day today I guess…
Sounds a lot like my tea habits too, although I tend to add milk to some of DAVIDs’ flavoured blacks. Never French ones, though. And second steeps? Very rare.
But it’s always good to experiment, especially when a tea just isn’t what it was before.