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Brewing - Weight and Temperature | Lesson 2.1
For the beginner in Chinese tea brewing, if intend to do it properly, you will need the basic following utensils:
- Scale
- Thermometer
- Chinese tea-ware for brewing
Off course, you can measure by sight, brew in a regular tea pot, and cool the water based by your own taste preference. But we are learning to brew Chinese tea properly, so the utensils would not go amiss and will come in handy further on. Practicing to brew with these utensils you will steep and measure the weight, temperature, and volume correctly.
You would be correct to mention that tea in China is more than a mere beverage, it is an art and poetry, not to be distracted by measuring temperature and volume. First, learn how to brew correctly, to Chinese Tradition to experience the real flavor of the tea before you start experimenting and expressing yourself. As Dali puts it, “At first you should learn to draw and paint as old masters, and do anything you want after that, everybody will respect you.”
Chinese tea brewing much stronger tea, the taste may seem odd at first, but after brewing tea in the traditional manner, I believe you will not be able to return to your original the way, there will not be enough flavor, especially in oolongs.
If you constantly use 7 grams of Pu-erh and oolong or 5 grams of other teas per 100 ml of water, your tea will be consistently tasty. Your sight measurement will be re-trained to these new weights, and you will be able to always brew tea sight. In other words, after learning the real flavor of tea, you will turn your brewing skills in line with correct practices, and they will be hard to disregard further on. You will always sense if you steeped it right and how completely delivered the flavor.