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 99 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
3–5 g
Typically 3.8 g
Ratio
1.2–2 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 1180sThree minutes, longer than a bag usually gets. This material is chosen to stand up to milk and sugar, and pulled early it tastes thin rather than delicate.
Equipment
- Empty filter bag
- Pyramid teabag
- Hot water boiler — The office and household case for a held-hot boiler is exactly this one — a bag, a mug and no waiting.
Vessel: A mug, and squeeze the bag against the side before removing it. With this grade that adds body rather than the harshness the same action adds to a fine tea.
Note: The strongest teabag set in the catalogue and it is meant to be drunk with milk. A chai base is small-particle black tea selected for colour and grip, and judged as a plain cup it is aggressive; judged as the tea half of a milk drink it is doing exactly what it was blended for. Boiling water throughout — nothing here is protected by restraint.
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: Chai preparation · Mug infuser brewing
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.