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
50–60 °C
Typically 55 °C
Leaf for 250 ml
7.5–12.5 g
Typically 10 g
Ratio
3–5 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 1120sYes, this really is around 50-60 °C. Hotter water destroys the character the shading was for.
Equipment
- Porcelain teapot
- Tea strainer
- Western teapot
- Glass teapot
- Dobin
- Glazed stoneware teapot
- Enamel-lined cast iron teapot
- Plunger tea press
- Quick-brew infuser press
- Tea dosing spoon
- Standardised tasting set
- Tea cosy
- Teapot warmer
- Silver teapot — Non-porous and instantly heat-conducting, so it takes up nothing between teas and also loses heat to the room faster than ceramic.
- Stainless steel teapot — Single-walled steel sheds heat quickly and gets too hot to hold; double-walled is the opposite on both counts, which is why insulated pots are built that way.
- Double-walled glass — The cup half of the same trick: an air gap keeps the outside holdable and the inside hot.
Vessel: Small kyusu; the volume of liquor is deliberately tiny.
What this does not tell you
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: Kyusu brewing (Japanese style) · Cold brew tea · Gongfu brewing (gaiwan) · Low-temperature brewing (gyokuro style) · Ice steeping (kōridashi)
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.