One day I’m going to make this properly. My first note for this was, what, two years ago? Well, I still have the same tin of tea, and I finally steeped it a minute longer like I said I was going to (I’m going to the midnight premiere of the next part of The Hobbit tonight, and this seemed really appropriate to drink beforehand), except now the tea is 2 years old and I have no idea whether it’s supposed to taste like this. The flavor is definitely stronger, and there’s basically no astringency to it. It’s like the floral Chinese-green-tea scent is a lot more vegetal than it normally is? So like a Japanese green kinda snuck in there and played around while I wasn’t looking.
I like it fine, and a lot better than I did last time I made it, so maybe the years aged it, I don’t know. I hope I didn’t, like, tea-poison myself.