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
96–100 °C
Typically 98 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
2.5–3.8 g
Typically 3 g
Ratio
1–1.5 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 1180sLift the basket out at three minutes and put it on a saucer. Leaving it in is the single most common cause of a bitter mug, and it is a habit rather than an accident — there is usually nowhere to put it.
Equipment
- Mug infuser basket
- Travel infuser bottle
- Empty filter bag
- Tea ball infuser
- Tea dosing spoon
Vessel: A basket wide enough for the leaf to treble in volume. A narrow ball infuser holds the leaf compressed, wets only its outside, and is the main reason people conclude loose leaf is not worth the trouble.
Note: Full-boil water and a single hard steep, which is what these teas are built for. This is the same extraction as the western-teapot set on the same record in different crockery, and the parameters agree because the act is the same — the difference is that a mug loses heat faster, so the last third of a big mug is brewed cooler than the first.
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.
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) · Boiling and decoction · Tea bag brewing · Chai preparation
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.