Review on 🍵 Top-Quality Davidson's Tea: Gunpowder Green, 1-Pound Bag for Bulk Purchase by Randy Perry

I'm a terribly picky tea drinker and unfortunately I have to be. So ordering tea by post is a real risk, despite the many 5-star ratings. It tastes like strong tea that has been washed and then pre-brewed. What is washing? You want to wash your tea when it's dirty. Or full of insects. Aka, just collected and then dried. Completely natural and unprocessed. Place the tea leaves in a bowl of water, rinse and drain. Traditional brewing or pre-brewing If you're looking to lower the caffeine content of your tea in a quick and dirty way, consider doing a quick pre-brew. Pour hot water over the tea and leave for 10-30 seconds. Then drain the water and brew as usual. The caffeine wears off faster than the taste. Most of time. You lose the most aggressive tea flavors and the tea element that causes a sore throat. It makes cheap tea seem closer to high-end tea, just missing some of the most interesting vibrant flavors. Use at least 50% more leaves as the usual amount tastes weak. High-quality teas are naturally less pungent and won't irritate the throat, but have a strong, vibrant flavor. Pre-brewing quality tea is a profanation. There have been many companies that "clean" their tea. Just David's tea and now Davidson. Every tea I've tried at David's Tea has been like this tea (I went to a tasting - totally lost track of how many teas I've tasted). Of course I have I don't know how many teas of my own. With a little experimentation, I found that I could reproduce the flavor with a very aggressive rinse/pre-brew using the strongest, hardest teas. In fact, you NEED strong, bold (and yes, cheap) teas or the flavor will be lost. Why not with a strong but excellent tea? Because you can sell it to tea lovers for an even higher price. And the price of these "special" teas? Through the roof What am I thinking? It's probably cheap strong tea, heavily washed/pre-brewed, after that the price skyrocketed. Smoothing the taste of tea is trivial. But inexperienced tea lovers don't know that. These companies target beginners and their wallets. They compare their product to high-end teas based on smoothness rather than flavor. Because the flavor is blurry and all the bright top notes are missing. You know an inexperienced tea drinker won't pay $200 a pound for quality tea, so it's a safe comparison. The first reaction from inexperienced drinkers is "how smooth" instead of "Half the flavor notes are missing, I can't even tell it's oolong. Why is he so smooth? It's too cheap to be this naturally smooth. Oh no. "Recommendation: go to an upscale tea shop that sells a lot of Asian teas and try it. Ask the shopkeepers for David and Davidson tea - bring a sample if you have one. Ask them to mimic the taste Or try two bags of Lipton at home instead of one PS Tea leaves make an excellent compost.