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
5–7.5 g
Typically 6.3 g
Ratio
2–3 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 136000sTen hours. Large, dark, only lightly withered leaf is slow in cold water and a short steep gives a pale drink with very little in it.
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 wide-mouthed bottle or jar. The leaves are long and unbroken and pack badly into a narrow neck, which is the usual reason this tea is reported as weak.
Note: More leaf and more time than a Fujian white cold brew, because this is assamica-type leaf made by white-tea methods rather than a Fujian white cultivar. It carries more of what needs coaxing and less of the delicate fraction that a short cold steep protects, and it does not go harsh if it is left too long.
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: Gongfu brewing (gaiwan) · Western brewing (teapot or mug)
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.