1.25 tsp for 250mL water 100C, steeped 4 minutes, drunk bare.
Dry leaf: lots of long and wiry brown leaves, small dark copper leaves, a few flecks of dull green. Aroma: toast , earth.
Wet leaf: brown, bright copper, dark green. Aroma: Ceylon copper.
Liquor: very dark reddish brown.
A four-minute steep yields a sweeter taste and stronger flowers-and-bread aroma than four minutes 30 seconds, though there’s still plenty of pucker and heft. This blend packs a good caffeine hit. It was first blended for an editors’ conference. I’m sipping while deep in revisions, and it’s plucking me out of the doldrums. I expect this would make a good studying tea, too.
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Definitely making note here—my heavy-duty curriculum writing season is barreling toward me like a freight train! By dinnertime yesterday, I decided that I have NO more ideas. Ever.
EDITORS’ BLEND WILL SAVE YOU! (superhero SFX) ! So might Harney & Sons’ Russian Country, if you like smoky tea. Russian Country packs a punch, really good caffeine lift.
I have always wanted to like lapsang souchong, in theory. In practice, it’s always been just a hair too strong. Is the Russian Country version just a whiff or is it a middle-aged guy blowing his cigar my direction?