The taste of tea
Aug. 23rd, 2017 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Perhaps there is some systematic reason I am failing to make such tasty tea. I could be using the wrong kind of tea; generally I favor Assam. I do not usually add milk or sugar but perhaps either or both are important for the taste I have in mind. Maybe I need harder water or even the correct kind of metal teapot rather than brewing in a ceramic mug. My memory could even be faulty: I may be pursuing a ghost though would be happy to try a range of tea loaf to render it again corporeal. Whichever is so, for the meantime the puzzle continues to linger unresolved.
The Taste of Tea(2004) but I have in mind the more generic topic of the taste of black tea. I have a memory of sometimes drinking really tasty tea. I have occasionally tasted a strong hint of this particular desirable flavor in good tea loaf (and its Celtic cousins). However, despite some effort in my own tea-making over recent years, I appear to not be recapturing it at all, let alone reproducing it reliably.
Perhaps there is some systematic reason I am failing to make such tasty tea. I could be using the wrong kind of tea; generally I favor Assam. I do not usually add milk or sugar but perhaps either or both are important for the taste I have in mind. Maybe I need harder water or even the correct kind of metal teapot rather than brewing in a ceramic mug. My memory could even be faulty: I may be pursuing a ghost though would be happy to try a range of tea loaf to render it again corporeal. Whichever is so, for the meantime the puzzle continues to linger unresolved.
