I think I finally got the parameters right for this one. I used about 3.5g leaf in a 100mL gaiwan with 185f water. The smell of the dry leaves was so floral that I knew there had to be some way to get that in the flavor. This worked pretty well, with early steeps being intensely floral, and the flavor getting more nasal and “green” as I went. Like steeped out flower stems or something. I don’t know if this is what it would actually taste like, but the descriptor of chlorophyll came to mind.
Flavors: Floral, Green, Mineral
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I always get a chlorophyll idea in my head, and also how I imagine more darker chlorophyll to taste in some purple leaf oolong, a weird sharper note
To me it’s like a plant taste…but not floral or vegetal – just green. Like how I imagine it’d taste if I just started chewing on a green leaf. Maybe not as bitter as that would be, but a bit of a sharp flavor for sure.
I always get a chlorophyll idea in my head, and also how I imagine more darker chlorophyll to taste in some purple leaf oolong, a weird sharper note
To me it’s like a plant taste…but not floral or vegetal – just green. Like how I imagine it’d taste if I just started chewing on a green leaf. Maybe not as bitter as that would be, but a bit of a sharp flavor for sure.