Dianhong Tea at Aliexpress
5g
Price: £11.92 ($18.37) for 150g cake.
Price per gram: 7.95p ($0.12)
Sweet: Very smooth, creamy and syrupy with lighter brews. Heavier brews yield an unfavourable metallic taste.
When brewed heavy I would rate this only 75/100.
Dry: Fishy. A yellow aroma…
Wet: Soft, yellow, creamy, light smoke. Not particularly inviting. Porridge sweetness.
5s – Dark brown. Sweet creamy, syrupy sip. Lightly brewed like this it is very pleasant. A cool breeze, milky, butteryness with a hint of cream.
20s – Darker brown. Soft cream on the sip. The body is soap-like. It is stimulating, but not overpowering. It is richly creamy and it swells to a medium strength body.
40s – Very dark brown. This tea is incredibly smooth and rounded with only a trace of an off wood note. Brewing this tea with more leaf and for longer steeps time, I find it gets heavy in a way where I feel it gives too much caffeine / metallic taste.
Flavors: Butter, Creamy, Honey, Soap
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sometimes metallic tastes can be good.
this tea to me has a pleasant metallic (copper) taste :
Thanks for your comment. The metallic reference was maybe a bit confusing. I’m now thinking of a tea which I would describe as having a metallic taste. The point I am making is that it is a negative flavour in my opinion.
not everybody likes a metallic taste in their teas ;)
sometimes metallic tastes can be good.
this tea to me has a pleasant metallic (copper) taste :
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Thanks for your comment. The metallic reference was maybe a bit confusing. I’m now thinking of a tea which I would describe as having a metallic taste. The point I am making is that it is a negative flavour in my opinion.
not everybody likes a metallic taste in their teas ;)