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Lewis Perin

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

>I tried two steeps of each of four fully-withered second flush darjeelings.
>None of these have the strong grassy odor that has become typical of modern
>first flush darjeeling teas, they were all selected for being dark and mellow.
>
>I took 30g of each with 250mL of boiling water, steeped for 2.5 minutes.
>I then followed the same procedure again for a second steep. Almost
>certainly the second steep should have been for at least a minute longer.
>This was performed single-blind.
>[...the details...]

Thanks for posting this. But *30g*?! Thats a lot of leaf. Are you
sure thats how much you used?

/Lew
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