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When people say strong they mean with lots of milk? I thought it was the concentration of the brew. I like a longer steep is what I meant.
This is the classic problem with coffee, where people think "strong" means less milk, rather than more caffeine.
No strong usually means a more concentrated brew
Cheers, yeah. I sometimes put three bags in the teapot 🤫
I've found that a longer steep doesn't really make a better cup though. If I want stronger, I add more tea and stay at the 4-5 minute range. Past maybe five minutes, it's getting tannins at such a high level that it's just bitterness. Which, if you like your tea very bitter, that's a good thing! I prefer the more subtle flavors over the tannic bite, though.
I was raised on very low quality stuff and have since moved on to Yorkshire gold - but I can't quite shake the desire for a bit of roughness.
Ahhhh, gotcha. I'm sorta the same way with coffee sometimes. Grew up with basic folgers rotgut, so I get that hankering for the way coffee tasted as a young'n rather than it tasting the way I usually prefer it. So I'll just dump too much into a percolator, keep the heat on it until it's near scorched, and let it eat a hole in my belly lol
I don't think I implied otherwise?
The guy I was responding to said C4 or D1, but strong, implying they were similar
C4 is strong with a splash of milk, D1 is incredibly weak with no milk so it seems as though they preferred C4 and not D1