Steady Fire is an awakening Dian Hong from Big Snow Mountain, with a warming and activating quality. Dian Hong means that it’s a red tea from the Yunnan region in China, in this case form Mengku.
This tea is perfect to start your day focused and energized: she’ll get you moving rather than have you settle down for meditation.
The aroma of blackcurrant and oak provides for a flavor of malt and chestnut carried through each sip. This full-bodied tea feels like syrup on the tongue and has a mineral finish. The taste lingers for up to half an hour, as does the warming feeling in the stomach.
Steady Fire is perfect for the early riser who’s getting ready for a day of work, or as a wonderful pick-me-up on a cold and rainy day.
Brewing
Steady Fire is the ideal tea to drink ‘leaves-in-a-bowl’-style. Add some leaves to a tea bowl, pour hot water over them and drink your tea. Once emptied, just pour hot water over the leaves again and continue enjoying your tea. She’ll provide many yummy infusions without renewing the leaves.
A sidehandle pot will make the leaves last even longer, while a gong fu session will reveal everything this wonderful tea has to give. Use short, quick infusions for a longer tea session.
You don’t want to steep her too long, as she’ll turn bitter and the energy will turn jittery rather than warming. Short steepings keep her smooth and steady, for a focused and upbeat morning.
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