Fu Guang
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100ml thick walled gaiwan
~4g
~205°F
Leaf color: olive green chocolate brown
Dry aroma: perfumed crackerjacks
Steep color: wheat
Wet aroma: orchids! popped corn hulls, warm milk, seaweed
Tea aroma: orchids; when cooler, milk
Tea base: popped corn hulls
Steep taste: leafy greens
Steep texture: silken flint
Throatiness: enduring
Quenchless: firm, substantial
Chaqi: undeniably relaxing
100ml ruyi yixing
~6g
~205°F
Leaf color: olive green chocolate brown
Dry aroma: roasted grain, caramel popcorn, matured flowers, warm milk
Steep color: late autumn/early winter meadow
Wet aroma: hot sugared milk, grill burnt buttered corn, crab, garden of flowers in full blossom, steamed leafy greens
Tea aroma: flowers!
Tea base: vegetable stock
Steep texture: bright, flinty
Throatiness: enduring
Quenchless: brothlike (light, slightly oily), tongue curling, warms belly
Chaqi: enveloping, well-deserved sleepiness; like sunlight playing on a body of fresh water throughout the body behind closed lids
aka golden lily, milk or silk oolong, nai xiang
120ml shi piao yixing
~5g
~205°F
Leaf color: olive green chocolate brown
Dry aroma: dry roasted corn husk, orchid! afterthought suggestion of milk
Steep color: winter sunlight
Wet aroma: perfumed crackerjacks, fresh cut field grass & carnations, as if the sea were milk and seaweed flowered, green tea cookies dipped in nut milk, the later the infusion the longer the dip the more dairy the milk
Tea base: warm milk
Steep taste: spring vegetables steamed, complex leafy greens soup with a dollop of cream
Steep texture: light, wet
Throatiness: long & enduring, as if the tea were milk (late: bright almost metallic)
Quenchless: brothlike (light, slightly oily), then slippery
Chaqi: brightens eyes, relaxes shoulders
The tea lasts (final infusion at 30min). From initial infusion to final, the upfront flavor goes from being floral to milky and back to floral. All good, and the tea could probably be pushed to 2hrs and then overnight; however , the milky huigan of the last infusions tasting like a watered skim isn’t terribly motivating.