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
8.8–13.8 g
Typically 11.3 g
Ratio
3.5–5.5 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 1240sFour minutes for the concentrate and no longer. Steeping harder on the theory that a concentrate should be stronger is what makes a batch bitter under the sugar rather than sweet.
Equipment
- Brewing saucepan
- Kettle
- Cold brew bottle
Vessel: A pan for the concentrate and a cold jug for the finished volume. The dilution water should be cold and the jug should be cold with it.
Note: THESE ARE CONCENTRATE FIGURES, and slightly lighter and shorter than the catalogue’s existing sweet-tea set, because whole orthodox leaf extracts more slowly and more cleanly than the cut leaf that fills the bags this drink is usually made with. Sugar is dissolved into the hot concentrate — that ordering is the method — and the whole is then let down with two to three times its volume of cold water. Sugar quantity is a household decision and belongs to the drink record.
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) · Mug infuser brewing · Tea bag brewing · Sun 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.