I got my kettle today!!!!!! http://bonavitaworld.com/products/10l-digital-variable-temperature-gooseneck-kettle — This one! IM SO EXCITED TO PLAY WITH IT! It’s so beautiful, I love it.
Anyways, this tea!
Very roasty woody aroma, with a jumble of spices and a hint of cocoa or baking chocolate on steep one, with the second steep aroma bringing in deep floral that I want to say is violet? But I dont know my flowers, that’s just what I immediately thought of, so maybe that’s what it is. It brews up a pale mustard yellow, and a taste that makes me reminiscent for a moment of vanilla ice cream. Of course, there’s mostly roasty chocolate notes, with the wood and earth from the aroma, but I also get notes of rice, orange zest, florals, vanilla, cranberry, lime zest, coconut, cream, and grapefruit. This is some pretty complex tea. Also I’m on like steep 5, and I feel extremely tea drunk already. It’s very thick and creamy with a bit of astringency and some bitterness (which may or may not be my inexperience brewing dancong showing its face), further notes of asian pear. It has an amazing bittersweetness thing going on, I’m also getting a hint of sour candy, like sour keys.
I didn’t really notice any other flavours past steep 6 or 7. The creaminess steeps out shortly after, then slowly the roasty chocolate, earth and wood which dominated the taste begin to fade, though never are completely gone, leaving a nice, mostly fruity (apple/pear), lightly astringent, still very nice and drinkable tea. I absolutely love this one.
No rating because this is my third ever dancong.
I did a 7-8 second rinse (woulda been shorter but I’m not used to the new kettle, it pours slow) and then I used 100C water for the first steep, 99 for the second and 98 from there on out. I’d estimate I did about 5g of leaf in my 120ml gaiwan, but I don’t have a scale so I don’t know. It was filled about 2/3 of the way to the top
Flavors: Apple, Candy, Chocolate, Cocoa, Coconut, Cranberry, Cream, Floral, Grapefruit, Lime, Orange Zest, Pear, Rice, Roasted, Toast, Vanilla, Violet, Wood
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congrats on a lovely looking kettle!
Thank you :)))
How are you enjoying this kettle? Is it fulfilling all your new kettle dreams and then some? What are its pluses and minuses?
It’s amazing I had a really cheap kettle before so this is like a huge upgrade, I love the temperature settings, it’s pretty quiet, it’s so beautiful to look at, uh if there’s any downsides, it pours a little bit slow? Not really a problem because it’s an accurate pouring mechanism, but yes it is fulfilling all my kettle dreams so far :)
also the countup timer it has seems really pointless – you have to push a button to get it to start counting up (I assumed it’d start counting once you took the kettle off the base) and once you put the kettle back on, it stops, so you have to leave the kettle somewhere else and I don’t usually have anywhere else I can put it.. So I don’t use that
congrats on a lovely looking kettle!
Thank you :)))
How are you enjoying this kettle? Is it fulfilling all your new kettle dreams and then some? What are its pluses and minuses?
It’s amazing I had a really cheap kettle before so this is like a huge upgrade, I love the temperature settings, it’s pretty quiet, it’s so beautiful to look at, uh if there’s any downsides, it pours a little bit slow? Not really a problem because it’s an accurate pouring mechanism, but yes it is fulfilling all my kettle dreams so far :)
also the countup timer it has seems really pointless – you have to push a button to get it to start counting up (I assumed it’d start counting once you took the kettle off the base) and once you put the kettle back on, it stops, so you have to leave the kettle somewhere else and I don’t usually have anywhere else I can put it.. So I don’t use that