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
90–96 °C
Typically 93 °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 1150sBrewed hot at roughly double strength and poured straight onto a full glass of ice, which melts into it and brings it back to drinking strength while dropping the temperature in seconds.
Equipment
- Glass teapot
Vessel: A glass filled with ice to the top before the tea is poured, not a glass with ice added afterwards. The whole method depends on the dilution and the chilling happening at the same moment; ice added to warm tea gives a diluted warm tea.
Note: Flash chilling rather than cold brewing, and the difference matters for this material: these are low-astringency Taiwanese blacks whose aroma is the reason to drink them, and a hot extraction captures the aromatic fraction that cold water leaves in the leaf. Chilling fast is what stops that aroma dulling as the cup cools slowly. Brewed at single strength and iced, it is thin — the doubled leaf is not a preference, it is arithmetic about the melt.
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.