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Yesterday's tea: pint of Chinese black tea blend for the road.

Today's tea: 1.5+ pints of a prestigious Chinese dark oolong called dahongpao, literal translation, big red robe. It's good, a very rich oolong. I wouldn't pay the $300+ pricetag for a pound of it though. Parents got it as a gift. Also forgot to mention, brewed it grandpa style.

@Revelation34 , typical Western brewing style is boil water, pour into vessel, brew 3-5 minutes, and strain.

Grandpa style, is you leave the leaf in your cup, and as you drink it, you top it off with hot water when it's empty, or when there's 1/2 or 1/3 of a cup left (in order to retain more tea flavor). Named after the favored way of old people, and the easygoing/lazy way to drink a lot of tea without care for consistency. Grandpa style works best for green tea and oolong, because black tea easily makes it too bitter when it's constantly extracting. Also, use less leaf than the typical (2 g per cup ala western), and add more when flavor is weakening.

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