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Tea brewing guides
Twelve guides that answer the question you actually typed: how hot, how long, how much leaf. Every number below comes from the same database that drives the Teafinity app — 176 teas, Western and Gong Fu schedules, in °C and °F.
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Brew it by type
- 80 °C · 90–120 s How Long to Steep Green Tea Most green tea wants 80 °C and 90 seconds — but gyokuro wants 60 °C and Moroccan mint wants a rolling boil. Here is the whole spread. Read
- 90–100 °C · 2:30–5:00 How Long to Steep Black Tea Breakfast blends take four minutes off boiling water. Darjeeling and Keemun collapse if you treat them the same way. Read
- 85 °C · 5 min · 6 steeps How to Brew White Tea The most under-steeped tea in the cupboard. Silver Needle needs five minutes at 85 °C, and it will give you six honest infusions. Read
- 85–93 °C · 60–150 s How to Brew Oolong Tea Rolled or roasted changes everything. Western timings, Gong Fu ladders, and why Dan Cong is over in five seconds. Read
- 90–100 °C · 10–60 s Pu-erh Brewing Guide (Sheng & Shou) Rinse, then flash-steep. Ripe pu-erh takes boiling water; raw pu-erh does not. Fifteen-plus infusions from one measure of leaf. Read
Technique
- 100 ml · 5–9 g How to Use a Gaiwan The lid, the grip, the pour — and the burn you are trying to avoid. A 100 ml gaiwan, 5–9 g of leaf, and ten seconds at a time. Read
- 1:83 vs 1:14 Gong Fu vs Western Brewing Same leaf, two completely different cups. What changes when you go from 3 g in 250 ml to 7 g in 100 ml — and which teas earn it. Read
- 10 g/L · 6–12 h Cold Brew Tea: Ratio, Time & Which Leaves Work 10 g per litre, 8 hours in the fridge, no bitterness at all. Why cold water refuses to extract the compounds that ruin iced tea. Read
Water, temperature & storage
- 70 °C / 160 °F Matcha Water Temperature 70 °C, 2 g, 70 ml, whisked — not steeped. The exact numbers for usucha, koicha and the iced version. Read
- 50–150 mg/L TDS Water Quality for Tea: What Actually Matters Hardness, chlorine and that grey film on your Darjeeling. What to change first if your tea tastes flat at the correct temperature. Read
- Opaque · airtight · cool How to Store Tea So It Still Tastes Like Tea Air, light, heat, moisture, odour — five enemies, one answer. Plus the two categories that are supposed to age. Read
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Teafinity times every one of these steeps for you
Pick any tea in these guides and the app loads its exact schedule, counts the infusions, rings even in your pocket, and logs the session — free on iPhone and Android.
