Thank you to TeaTiff for this tea. I again did this pseudo gong fu cha in my 5oz finum cup, boiling as per the Teavivre site.
TIL that I really don’t like flavored milk oolongs. The milk flavor just tastes like spoiled milk to me. Awful.
But once I got beyond that, a few steeps in, this was decent. I liked the Mandala a lot better. That said, I’m really looking forward to the Gong Fu Tea milk oolong tomorrow.
I did a 5s rinse, and decided to try it since it smelled good. I actually liked it. Really creamy and milky. There was just a little bit of the flavor to it.
The first real steep at 25s was just AWFUL. EEEW. Terrible. I almost dumped it out and the leaves but I decided to drink it (it was only a few ounces) It tastes like sour, nasty milk to me. Just blech.
The second steep was 35s. It still tasted “off” to me, but a lot better than the first.
45s was much better , mostly the off flavor is gone. It tasted a lot more green to me, almost but not quite floral. I noted on this steep how beautiful the color was.
55s was a very nice steep. The off milk flavor is gone. This is still creamy, more floral and just a touch vegetal. I liked the green oolong flavor.
1:05 very nice. Ended very buttery. But nothing spectacular at the same time. Very weird.
1:15 This was my favorite infusion of them all. really creamy and buttery.
1:25 was similar but not as much flavor.
I tried one more steep but it was done by that point.
Yeah, this flavored one is not for me. I would probably have liked the unflavored version of this better, but I can tell it would not be one I would want to stock.
