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Water
In you are using tap water, it is necessary to
use a water filter that consists of activated
carbon filter. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able
to enjoy the authentic taste of tea. If using
commercial mineral water, it is important to
choose the natural mineral water. Never use
distilled water or reversed osmosis processed
water. These water lack of mineral content and
thus the taste of tea is too soft and a little
plain. Soft water is better than hard water.
Brewing tea with hard water makes it taste
bitter while soft water makes it taste gentle
and sweet. The softness of water is written on
the mineral water bottle as TDS: total dissolved
solid. You need to choose the water that TDS is
below 200mg/liter.
Brewing Temperature
Use boiling water. It is very important to boil
water so as to evaporate chlorine and other
kinds of contaminated substance in water. Do not
boil for more than a few minutes. Boiling too
long would rather concentrate the minerals and
the character of water may change to hard water.
Brewing Time
The suitable teapot for black tea is the red
clay teapot. The bone China ware also gives a
good effect. But still the effect of red clay is
far beyond bone china. Make sure rinse the tea
pot with boiling water for about 10-20 seconds
in order to warm it up. Brewing time is about 30
seconds. For 2nd brewing, please keeps the
brewing time less than a few seconds.
Quantity of Tea Leaf
Volume of water / 5 = Weight of tea leaf to be
used.
Remark
Once brewing is completed, make sure to pour out
the tea until the last drop. In addition, please
leave the lid opened while waiting for the next
brewing. This is important to maintain the taste
of subsequent brewing and also to avoid tea
leaves from being over cooked.
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