Why, you ask, would a 50-ish housefrau more inclined to Enya and Eno be introducing herself to this German, frankly rather terrifying band? It is because of the now-long-gone-viral video of these three little kids doing an amazing cover of one of their songs.You can find that here.
I am particularly impressed by the four years old's drumming. I've been watching this video with great pleasure the last few months, and now a newer video of them doing the same song has come out, they are now almost teens and its almost as amazing. Of course seeing really little kids rock was slightly better, but this is still awesome. So this morning as I was thinking of which tea to brew I did a Wiki search on Rammstein, learned enough to be interested, decided on opening the small sample of W2T's Rougui and sat back and watched my first taste of the actual band the kids have been covering. I saw some things I rather wished I hadn't but too late now. The tea, however, gave me no such regrets.
The combination of the power-punching W2T Rougui and the videos I saw was, well, a combined novelty to say the least.
I don't know much about Rougui but it looks like a DaHongPao so I brewed it with a light hand of three grams in a small hohin vessel which holds 4 ounces of water at most. Temperature was around 207f.
It is a intense, mineral-rich roasted flavor with really spicy notes, even with the small amount of leaves I used, and is viscous and thick with a long-lasting mouth-feel. Super good morning tea.
I think I will have a third steeping now but perhaps while grooving to some Dean Martin, I don't think I can handle any more muscle-bound German versions of Iggy Pop right now.
I will say however, that Iggy Pop, or Rammstein, or even a children's band version of Rammstein songs fits with this tea far better than Dean f'ing Martin, so maybe I was lying about Dean f'ing Martin and will meet myself halfway and put on Tom Waits, 'The Black Rider'. Oh yeah, now that is a match.
