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Breaking Out the Bunny for This Tea Session
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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.
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.
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!