Today’s random steeping isn’t so random. In fact, for once, I know exactly what I am drinking.
I actually went out to buy chinese bud tea. Looking at the $15 price made me think twice though. Instead, I picked up 1 KG of raw Ontario Grade 1 honey.
I figured that this would go a lot further than 40g of buds.
For the third steeping of David’s Long Jing, I cranked up the heat to full, and dumped the hot water in 4g of tea.
The brew came out yellow, and I mixed in a tablespoon of honey. If you put in too much honey, it will sour your tea. So what I do is add a couple teaspoons of sugar. You get sweetness plus the florals of honey. Unfortunately this particular honey didn’t overwhelm me with floweriness. Tasting the honey, I get a caramel like flavour with delicious sweetness, it moves to hurting the throat. On the other hand, it does provide quite a bit of taste in the cup.
