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.
Water temperature
4–10 °C
Typically 6 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
3–5 g
Typically 3.8 g
Ratio
1.2–2 g /100 ml
No rinse
Infusion schedule
This style is authored as a single infusion. A second steep from the same leaf will be thinner rather than merely weaker.
- Infusion 125200sSeven hours. Pan-fired leaf is less permeable than steamed leaf and takes longer to give what it has.
Equipment
- Glass teapot
- Cold brew bottle
- Plastic teaware — Most cold-brew bottles and travel brewers are heat-tolerant plastic: light and unbreakable, and a surface that takes up aroma from smoky, roasted and heavily scented teas.
Vessel: A sealed jug or bottle. Scented teas want a tightly closed vessel more than plain ones do, because the aromatics that make them worth drinking cold are exactly the ones that escape.
Note: Less leaf and more time than the Japanese variant, which is the opposite of what a scaling rule would predict and is a consequence of the fixing: pan-firing seals the leaf surface in a way steaming does not, so extraction is slower and a heavy dose does not speed it up, it only makes the eventual result heavy. Jasmine and other scented greens are the standouts of the group — floral aromatics survive cold extraction unusually well and are not competing with the astringency heat would have brought.
What this does not tell you
These parameters are a synthesis of common practice rather than recorded practice for this specific tea.
How many infusions this tea will give beyond the schedule below is not recorded.
No caffeine estimate is authored for this tea, so the assistant cannot tell you how strong the cup will be in that sense.
Leaf weight is a weight. A teaspoon is not — a fluffy white tea and a tightly rolled oolong differ several-fold by volume, so scales beat spoons here.
Other authored styles for this tea: Western brewing (teapot or mug) · Grandpa style · Gongfu brewing (gaiwan)
Methods TeaHQ describes but cannot give numbers for
1 of 28 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.