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Great session. Floral, sweet, smooth at first, later fruity, thick, bell peppery, brassy. Sharp tingly quality on the tongue as I’m drinking, then that same sharp tingly quality at the bottom of my throat as I swallow. Became unpleasant when I overbrewed an individual steeping and that effect became too strong. Felt like I had to tame those demons.

Got so many steepings out of this one that I lost count. After a 30-second rinse, steepings were 15 seconds then at most like 30 to 40 seconds by the end. Astringency and bitterness never really came up. Despite the consistently short brew times, flavors were never light.

Just such a fan of this one, thematically. The appropriateness of the name, the evil, murky feeling it conjured up, the care and/or luck needed to get each steeping right, and the music I was listening to at the time (Shinichi Atobe which is uhhh, experimental house maybe? It matched this session perfectly).

Oh, I’ll finally be drinking from something other than YS and w2t! Just got an order from CLT and also subscribed to OWT club. I know there’s so much more out there but it’s easier to just focus on a couple stores at a time, for me at least.

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 15 sec 7 g 3 OZ / 100 ML
ashmanra

What is OWT?

derk

Jumping in here – Old Ways Tea, the place you mentioned wanting to order some of their teas :)

derk

Mateusz, I’m looking forward to notes on the teas you get in the club box :)

Mateusz

Yup! I’ve heard nothing but good things about them. Shipped today, I’m excited.

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ashmanra

What is OWT?

derk

Jumping in here – Old Ways Tea, the place you mentioned wanting to order some of their teas :)

derk

Mateusz, I’m looking forward to notes on the teas you get in the club box :)

Mateusz

Yup! I’ve heard nothing but good things about them. Shipped today, I’m excited.

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Hello! My name is Mateusz, or Mat for short. Started brewing gong fu style in January 2021. This is mostly for logging purposes; don’t expect fancy reviews as I’m not great at picking up every note and hint and I’m not too picky anyway.

Happy to exchange tea samples! I haven’t been great at updating my cupboard but feel free to ask about the teas that I log on here.

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