Brewing Guide
What makes a great cup of tea?
Quality tea ingredients
Quantity of tea per cup
Water temperature
Steeping time
Adorning your tea in beautiful teacups, teapots and other tea making vessels enhances the pleasure of your tea experience, which can be as unique as you.
The following is a guide for LOOSE LEAF TEA and we recommend that you experiment to find what suits your personal taste.
|
Tea |
Celsius Temperature |
Steeping Time in Minutes |
Other |
|
White |
80 |
1-3 |
|
|
Green |
80-85 |
1-3 minutes for robustness. 20 seconds for no bitterness. |
There is no bitterness at 20 seconds |
|
Oolong |
80-90 |
2-4 |
|
|
Black |
95-100 |
3-5 |
If you enjoy a strong cuppa, use more tea leaves rather than over- brewing your tea, to maintain delicate notes in flavour. |
|
Puerh |
95-100 |
2-4 |
|
|
Herbal |
95-100 |
3-5 |
Depending on ingredients |
|
Rooibos |
95-100 |
4-6 |
|
We recommend that you always use fresh, filtered water and do not leave it boiling once it reaches boiling point.
Using a kettle which brews water to a specific temperature is ideal…these are freely available. If you do not have one, just bring your kettle to the boil and leave it for approximately one minute for 90 degrees and two minutes for 80 degrees.
Also, if you have a clear kettle or are heating water in a pan, you can tell the approximate temperatures as follows:
No bubbles but some steam @ 77 degrees
Some bubbles on the bottom and steam rising @ 82 degrees
Small bubbles rising @ 88 degrees
Streams of bubbles rising from the bottom @ 93
Surface begins to erupt @ 100
Bubbling surface and lots of steam = boiling water!
