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
95–100 °C
Typically 98 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
10–15 g
Typically 12.5 g
Ratio
4–6 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 1300sFive minutes and no more. Over-steeping on the theory that a concentrate should be stronger is what makes a batch harsh and cloudy under the sugar.
Equipment
- Brewing saucepan
- Kettle
- Cold brew bottle
Vessel: A pan or kettle for the concentrate and a jug large enough for the finished volume. The jug wants to be cold and the dilution water cold with it.
Note: THESE ARE CONCENTRATE FIGURES. The sugar is dissolved into the concentrate while it is still hot — that ordering is the whole method — and the result is then let down with about twice to three times its volume of cold water and chilled. Sugar quantity is a household decision and lives in the drink record rather than here.
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) · Tea bag brewing · Hong Kong milk tea (sock-strained) · 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.