A step-by-step guide to brewing in a 120 ml gaiwan: how much leaf, the water temperature for each Nepal Hills tea, short steep times, and how to hold and pour without burning your fingers.

Last updated: September 2026 Cold brewing and hot steeping pull different amounts of the same compounds out of identical tea leaves. Hot water extracts catechins and caffeine fast and fully, making a hot cup bolder and more astringent;...

Gongfu's repeated short infusions and Western tea's single longer steep pull the same caffeine and catechins from the leaf on different schedules. Here's what the extraction science actually shows, and which Nepal Hills teas hold up best across...

Last updated: August 2026 Cold brew oolong tea is best steeped for 8 to 12 hours in the fridge, with about 8 to 10g of whole leaf per 500ml of room-temperature water. There's no boiling and no bitterness,...

Last updated: August 2026 Cold brewing black tea means steeping loose leaf in cold water for 6–8 hours instead of hot water for minutes — it extracts far less tannin, producing a naturally smoother, sweeter cup with no...

Last updated: July 2026 To brew our white tea, use water at 80°C (not boiling) and steep for 2 to 3 minutes, with about 3g of leaf per 250ml. Both our white teas, Floral White and Fresh White,...

Last updated: July 2026 Oolong tea is best steeped at 85 to 90°C for 2 to 3 minutes, though the exact time depends on how oxidized the leaf is. Oolong is partly oxidized, somewhere between green and black...