It’s bunny day, so it seemed fitting to take out my tea pet.

Tea is Jinggu “Wild Tree Purple Moonlight White” from Yunnan Sourcing. I’ve only had white tea a handful of times, really enjoyed it. A little bitter, and felt like a lot of different flavors I couldn’t really identify. I just know I liked it! Made it to about 10 steeps before it started losing flavor, so even the smaller 25g sample I got should last me a good while.

  • Jake FarmEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I am by no means an expert, but I have found reducing the leaf to water ratio reduces the bitterness. Same with reducing brew time and temperature.

    • Lumu@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, I’m messing with the balance each time now to try and reduce bitterness without losing the flavor. The next time I tried with about 3/4th the amount of leaves. Doing 180F at 20 seconds to start with a gradual increase each steep seems like the right area so far!