4.7g, 90 mL ZZZ
wet leaf: YQH storage, light smoke, sweet, dark fruit, slight barnyard
1. sweet, slight cherry, effervescent alcohol tinge to taste and finish like the other YQHs recently. some woody and underlying bitterness though nowhere to the extent of the CWS and DJYS recently. light sugary quality like watermelon
2. herbal tea. some sweetness alongside oversteeped astringent bagged tea taste on rear of tongue. relatively strong bitterness here
3. similar in taste. bitter lingers on tongue.
4. sedative. woody. YQH dark marshmallow-y taste
took a long break in between to watch the snow outside since was super lethargic already. steeps 5-7 were mostly similar, and pewtering out. Outside of my earlier criticisms on taste (bitterness not resolving well, and fairly linear), I can’t drink this tea too often, because it is one of the most downing teas I own. There are some teas that are comforting and settling (e.g., aged BYHs and most older LBs), but this is not that. It feels forceful, like you are trapped doing nothing and unable to change that for some time. For an errand-free Saturday (yay for modern day grocery delivery), it is fine. For any other day (which is 99% of the time), it hardly fits the bill.
