Have a lot of work to do tonight, so I wanted an easy tea that I could re-steep repeatedly if need be. I knew this one could re-steep fine at least one time from my previous encounter, so I went with it.
This time however, the water didn’t quite reach boiling and I was impatient and poured the cup just slightly before the water (probably) would have started to boil. Hope that won’t end up having a negative effect—doesn’t seem to have. Also, I actually measured out the tea this time as well out of curiosity and ended up using 0.75 tsp for my 12 oz cup, instead of the recommended 1.5 tsp for 8 oz. The tea came out slightly less dark than last time (I did use a little more of the dry tea last time around), but still fully flavorful to my overly-active taste buds. I again chose to add sugar to cut some of the bitterness.
For the re-steep, I left the tea leaves in for an extra minute figuring it would add extra flavor, though the taste doesn’t seem nearly as strong this time around as I remember from my first time re-steeping this tea. Perhaps because I lowered the amount of tea in my original cup. Oh well, it’s still moderately satisfying and the flavor did seem to come through more as the tea cooled down.
Despite my probably better judgement telling me I shouldn’t, I attempted a second re-steep of this tea because I wasn’t quite finished with my work. Left it steeping much longer this time (like 10 minutes) in hopes of squeezing out every last drop of flavor. I was afraid I’d be drinking colored sugar water at this point, but I do still taste some of the tea flavor. Do hope my work is done by the time this runs out, however…
Updated cup count (12 oz) from 8g sampler size: 2 (+ 3 re-steeps of rapidly decreasing flavor). I’d say there’s enough tea left for another 3 cups, not counting re-steeps. We’ll see.
Sometimes even the teas you don’t expect to re-steep are good to re-steep :) Keep on experimenting :)