How often do you steep?
I've been wondering this for some time now.
In my opinion, many teas get weak and not very interesting after roughly 5 steeps. Rarely, some sheng or shou will last longer than that. And I'm not even talking about the cheapest stuff you could find, I order from different vendors like meileaf, YS, Yoshi en, teasenz, Farmerleaf etc.
I don't think that it is my palete or the tea. I start to think that it's just me, and my expectations.
See, for some green tea I understand that you just drink it en masse with grandpa style or western.
But with specialty stuff and gong fu, I want an experience for these 100ml I drink each steep. Maybe I just expect too much bang.
What is your people's experience?
I should add that I have very hard water where I live. so I generally use 2/3 osmosis water that I have to manually get since my wife won't let me get a permanent installation, and 1/3 tap water. so for me it's not just, let's make another random pour that tastes like a little something, for me it's a decision to use a resource that I have to produce, when using water. my brain makes a calculation of everything, cost/result.😅
