Just bought 14g of this to try out. Not impressed.
I can taste the toasty buttery notes but the bitterness is just too strong to really enjoy it. I brewed it at 80C for 1min 30secs with my perfect mug strainer/infuser, so I don’t see why it should be bitter. Possibly has something to do with all the tea dust left in my cup.
Edit: retried it in cooler water and short steeps aaaaaand…. green tea just doesn’t like me, does it? All I get is a fleeting glimpse of the taste described, and then bitter bitter bitter destroying everything. I try going colder and colder and shorter and shorter with the steeps but just nononono.
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Did you use more than 3/4 tsp for a cup? That, or using a finum filter (not available from DT) should fix the bitterness issue. I would not be surprised if the tea dust was the culprit, tbh.
I think overleafing may have been a problem! My mugs are very large so I probably overestimate the amount I need. I don’t have any more left of my sample but I was having problems with other green teas as well, but I made some adjustments and its going better now. I should pick up another 15g or so to give it another shot like I did with the others.
Awesome! Yeah, I find greens can be tough to get the hang of because they’re so picky, and one problem is that some greens by crappy tea vendors are virtually impossible to steep correctly (age, broken leaf, etc. etc.). It should be possible to brew all greens up to a delicious, astringency-free cup, but it’s very easy to fail!
Did you use more than 3/4 tsp for a cup? That, or using a finum filter (not available from DT) should fix the bitterness issue. I would not be surprised if the tea dust was the culprit, tbh.
I think overleafing may have been a problem! My mugs are very large so I probably overestimate the amount I need. I don’t have any more left of my sample but I was having problems with other green teas as well, but I made some adjustments and its going better now. I should pick up another 15g or so to give it another shot like I did with the others.
Awesome! Yeah, I find greens can be tough to get the hang of because they’re so picky, and one problem is that some greens by crappy tea vendors are virtually impossible to steep correctly (age, broken leaf, etc. etc.). It should be possible to brew all greens up to a delicious, astringency-free cup, but it’s very easy to fail!