Tea Steeping Time

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How long should you brew tea for? Starting with the right amount of tea, the right type of water, the right water temperature, you want to make sure you're brewing it with the right brewing time. For rooibos or other herbal teas that does not have caffeine, the longer you brew it the better it actually will taste. To get the flavor stronger, for rooibos or for ginger, peppermint and such instead of brewing the typical three to five minutes. Brew it for seven, ten, sometime I brew my rooibos for twenty minutes. It doesn't bring out any astringency cause there are no bitterness to rooibos. Ginger is the same thing, can't get it bitter. If you're getting good quality ginger, should not be bitter. But when you're brewing green tea or white tea, be careful to keep it monitored at three to five minutes because what you don't want to do is over brew it and overcook the leaves. There are some others who like their tea better and they'll brew it for ten/fifteen minutes which is okay. But if you want the nice, sweet flavor of teas and the great nuances that come with high quality tea, keeping your drink three to five minutes is best, so that when you want more tea, just add more hot water and you get another cup of tea. Now you ask me what do I do for strong tea? Add more tea leaves, but keep the brewing time the same. Oolong tea, it's always recommended to brew time to shorten it for a few seconds to a minute. The reason why is you want to do many, many infusions. Oolong is tightly packed, so you want, what you want to do is brew for short infusions so that it slowly opens. These are very, very tightly packed pellets, when it slowly opens till like maybe your tenth or fifth brew, it fully opens and you get another cup. You don't want to brew it one time and then throw out the tea leaves, cause I always say, give your first cup to your friends and drink the second cup cause second cup is always the better cup when it comes to oolong tea. Now black tea, for stronger flavor tea, you can go for a little longer, from three to five minutes, you can run it for about five to seven minutes. But for stronger flavor black, I also don't recommend letting it sit for ten/fifteen minutes, to always sit it for about three to five minutes, okay.

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