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
75–85 °C
Typically 80 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
6.3–10 g
Typically 7.5 g
Ratio
2.5–4 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 1120sBrewed into the pot and poured straight over a full glass of ice, which chills it within seconds.
Equipment
- Glass teapot
Vessel: Ice in the serving vessel before brewing starts, filled to about half. Chilling afterwards in the refrigerator gives a duller and hazier drink from the same leaf.
Note: Cooler water than the catalogue’s general flash-chill set, for the same reason green tea is brewed cool hot: heat pulls the bitter fraction out disproportionately, and cold does not hide it — it sharpens it, because chilling suppresses sweetness perception more than it suppresses bitterness. The doubled leaf compensates for the ice and nothing else.
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) · Cold brew tea
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.