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
2–10 °C
Typically 5 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
1.8–3.3 g
Typically 2.5 g
Ratio
0.7–1.3 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 121600sSix hours cold. Scented leaf gives its aroma up to cold water readily — the volatile fraction sits on the surface of the leaf rather than inside it — so this needs less time than an unscented green of the same grade.
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 bottle, kept in the refrigerator and drunk from cold. Nothing about the vessel is special; the point is that it seals, because the aroma is what is being kept.
Note: Written because the tea's own record says it is sold chilled in cans and bottles as much as it is brewed, which makes cold preparation the ordinary case for this tea rather than an alternative to the hot one. Cold water also suits it for a second reason: it takes the jasmine and leaves most of the base tea's grassy bitterness behind, and the base here is chosen for its capacity to carry scent rather than for its own character.
What this does not tell you
These parameters are a synthesis of common practice rather than recorded practice for this specific tea.
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) · 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.