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200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 30 sec 3 g 14 oz / 414 ml

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  • “Sipdown 76 This is a super safe, tasty black tea. Nothing extraordinary, but a nice lingering sweetness and stone fruit/milk chocolate flavor. Not bad, but not something I necessarily need to get...” Read full tasting note
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  • “2021 sipdown no. 116 Thanks to Cameron for this tea! :) This tea smells fairly strongly of honey, but in a delightful way. There’s also a typical breakfast tea scent, but the taste is so breakfast...” Read full tasting note

From Mountain Stream Teas

We named this tea for its potential power of ‘converting’ those who know and love the classic ‘Lipton’ black tea flavor to higher-quality stuff. Or at least we hope it can! Made with an Assamica cultivar imported into Taiwan by the Japanese 100 years ago, the tea is instantly recognizable as similar to the vast majority of black tea bags. BUT, it is made into a high-quality tea. A black tea that is ball rolled, it has the familiar strong malty kick of tea bags but without the bitterness or astringency. Instantly familiar, and instantly recognizable as of being higher quality, this tea has no pretensions of being anything other than a great, solid, assamica black tea.

If you do choose to try to ‘convert’ a heavy teabag drinker to some higher quality loose leaf, agrochemical-free stuff using this tea please let us know how it goes. If there is a special occasion or event and you want to try it out, let us know and we most likely can give you some tea at cost. Good luck :)

One of the only teas on the site to which it is fine, and even encouraged, to add milk and sugar:)

Other teas from this garden: Wild Cultivar Oolong (Eastern Camellia Formosensis), 2016 Luye Red

Elevation: 300m

Status: Certified Organic

Cultivar: Assamica

Oxidization: 95%

Season: November 2019

Method: Hand picked, processed on site, very small batch

Region: Luye, Taidong

Recommend Brewing Style:

Gong Fu Style: 3-5g per 100ml, ~100C water, 30, 45, 60 then add 5-10 seconds steeps in gaiwan. Lasts 4-5 steeps.

Western Style: 3g per 100ml, ~100c water for 3 minutes. Lasts 2-3 steeps.

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This is a super safe, tasty black tea. Nothing extraordinary, but a nice lingering sweetness and stone fruit/milk chocolate flavor. Not bad, but not something I necessarily need to get again.

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2021 sipdown no. 116

Thanks to Cameron for this tea! :)

This tea smells fairly strongly of honey, but in a delightful way. There’s also a typical breakfast tea scent, but the taste is so breakfast tea luxury. It’s hard to describe!

There’s not a stitch of astringency, which I love. There’s a typical Assam flavour, but with a lightness to it and not as much maltiness as I might expect. Like a Taiwanese high mountain mixed with an Assam.

Edit: As this cools, as incredible sweetness comes out. Just another reason to love this tea!

This is a must order for me.

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 2 min, 30 sec 3 g 14 OZ / 414 ML

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