Opened Steepster this morning (it’s 6 pm now), that I will write impressions of morning session. But we need to go shopping (tomorrow is “bad” bank holiday — shops are closed down); we had to visit the cemetery, so I rather, after week @home, went outside. I needed it pretty much badly, because I was so tired with staying home. But of course, all measures had to be taken, so facemask, disinfections, one-use gloves and so on. But pretty good morning!
Ah well, the tea. In the morning, I have used 80°C water, 3 grams, western. Nothing wrong with that, quite fast steep — 2 minutes. It was quite fruity, not sure about mango or papaya as previous raters said, but it was fresh as it could be (harvest in July 2015!), and quite enjoyable. Some earthy nose though, dry forest floor and quite… not amazing.
In the afternoon (I had two 90 minutes lectures from 1 pm) I prepared it again, with same parameters, but only (and recommended) 75°C water. It was much more earthy, sand-aroma like, drying, smoky…
It was like totally different tea, much worse and older, almost no of that nice tropical flavours.
No rating, no recommend → yes/no, as it was just totally different. For now, I will give it around average rating though. Thank you though White Antlers
Flavors: Earth, Forest Floor, Mango, Sand, Tropical
