Hi! Please make yourself at home c:

As titled - what is your preferred brew or steep method?

What do you drink the most? Hot or cold?

I drink a lot of oolong and pu-erh teas brewing gong-fu style and I have yet to try coldbrew c:

  • @INeedMana
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    11 year ago

    Huh. None of the comments seem to do it like I do.
    Recently I came to conclusion that shorter steeping times get out more taste variances (I mean like between Pai Mu Tan and White Peony for example)

    • 1 teaspoon per 400ml mug into a strainer. 1.5 if the tea is very loose like some white teas with big leaves or needles. 3/4 for oolongs rolled into balls
    • temperature depending on the tea
      • 70°C - green tea, raw pu-erh
      • 80°C - oolong, some white teas
      • 90°C - some white teas, black teas, cooked pu-erhs, rooibos
    • infusion times depend on the tea but the general rule I have is
      1. brew - 30sec
      2. brew - depends. Some teas 30sec, some teas 35sec. Depends on the tea itself, not the kind of tea
      3. brew - 35sec
      4. brew - 45sec
      5. brew - 60sec
      6. some teas will be spent after 5. If not, 60sec again. Sometimes you can squeeze the last bits of flavor with 3mins of brewing

    With 400ml mug I don’t always manage to go through all the brews in one day. Tea started yesterday is ok, leaves from the day before yesterday I discard