Brew assistant
Pick a tea and a brewing style. Everything below is transcribed from that tea's own authored parameters — nothing is scaled from another style, because a ratio and a steep time do not transfer between styles.
Or start from a family
Family ranges are orientation, not settings. They report the spread the authored records actually cover, which is wider than any single tea within them.
Black tea
85–100 °C · 1–5 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 77 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
Yellow tea
75–100 °C · 1.5–2.5 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 8 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
Green tea
45–100 °C · 1–5 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 61 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
Dark tea and pu-erh
95–100 °C · 1.5–2.5 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 32 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
Oolong
85–100 °C · 1–2.5 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 58 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
White tea
80–100 °C · 1.5–3 g/100 ml · western brewing (teapot or mug)
The spread across 16 authored teas in this family, not a setting for any one of them. Pick a tea for parameters you can brew to.
Methods TeaHQ describes but cannot give numbers for
1 of 15 brewing methods have no authored parameters on any tea. They are listed rather than hidden: the method exists and is described, the numbers are simply not written yet. Nothing here is estimated from a neighbouring style.
- Herbal infusion (tisane)
Herbal infusion is on that list for a second reason as well: the herbal catalogue is two records held in review, so there is nothing to brew even once parameters exist.