Proved to be too strong so, after about 1/2 mug, I added a half mug of a 12 oz (I think) mug of more distilled water at room temperature, tossed in the rest from the mug (8 oz) from which I was sipping, stirred, and repoured.
Damn, it's good!
With all the "for the heck of it" and "tossing" that I was doing, I wonder if I'll be able to duplicate it again?!
Unexpected pleasures... :)
repoured.
Very well done, thats about my style of tea preperation, rarely measured with a spoon. I estimate what I think I need, then add more. Aint it great? Part of the fun for me is getting drastically different results from the same tea leaves the next day. Then slowly honing in on what parameters work best for a batch of tea, by the time I get it figured out, I am out of that type of tea and have to start over on a new kind I've never had before, and on it goes. :-)
No, not to me, it isn't.
I like consistently good tasting stuff. Drastically different results from the same tea puts me out.
This is definitely a situation of YMMV because I do my experimenting up front and when I get that "Ahhh!" I use the same measurement, temp, and time until the tea's gone.
If I'm not able to figure out how to get the same great taste that I did yesterday, reliably repeatable results, I'm gonna be thoroughly pissed-off at myself.
I'm hoping it was just the water, but I don't see how it could have been.
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