Your video indeed resonates with my experience brewing tea. After "communicated" with my shu pu'er, I discarded all of the brewing recipe I found in the internet. Mine just prefer lower temperature (almost as low as green tea) to shine.
Wait, why do you only steep the leaves about five times??? I get a shou from Meil Leaf called Nug Potion, and I swear it could last me for days! I've used a batch from noon til five am... and the body feel is still strong! I've even had sheng puerhs that last me a day and a half as well!
This video was very helpful. I'd been sticking to the standard recommendations of 10s, 20s, and so on, getting very pale early infusions with my more compressed cakes, and thinking, "Shouldn't I be doing a longer early infusion to open the tea up more?" Thank you for confirming that I should be listening to myself and to the tea instead.
