Sencha Hockey

So I got a lovely sampler from Hibiki-An which included Sencha Superior. (No picture - suck it up... it looks like green tea).

I'm on steep number five of this tea and am liking it more and more. The first steep I used about 1g per oz of water and that was a little weak. So instead of using 8oz of water, I started using 6oz for the re-steeps and this took care of the thin taste I was getting from it initially.

It's got a good muscatel smell but any muscatel flavor has only started coming out in later steeps. It's not the smoothest tea and I thought the somewhat bitter tail that seems to build up was going to make me dislike this tea, but nope. I'm surprisingly starting to like that lightly bitter end.

So, I think I'm just going to hang out this evening at home, sipping on my sencha superior and try to figure out if I want Dallas or Detroit to win the Western Conference final. I just can't convince myself that I want Dallas to win, but I know I don't want Detroit to. I still want San Jose to win, but as Dallas knocked them out last round, I don't think that will happen.

I'm kind of thinking I want Philly to win it all. They have ex-Duck Joffrey Lupul on their team and since the Ducks were booted in the first round (dagnabit!) he's the closest I can get to cheering for the Ducks.

Joffery Lupul is purty, even with the sketchy playoff beard

Of course, it would be cool if Pittsburgh won the Cup - they kind of deserve it.

And there is officially something wrong that I want an Eastern Conference team to win the Stanley Cup. Shame on me.