silver needle

Earlier in a chat about tea, a few people brought up how you can throw yourself off your game by changing to the preparation of a different amount of tea from your usual amount.

Undeterred, I tried my hand at making small servings of silver needle.

For each of 2 infusions, I used about 100 ml of water.

In the first infusion, I used a rounded teaspoon of leaf and steeped for 7 minutes in 180* water.

For the second infusion, I added an additional teaspoon of leaf.

The second infusion was definitely more to my liking, although both were a little subtle. I'm going to have to experiment with this one more to see if I can get the feel for it.