How to brew Green Tea correctly?

How to brew Green Tea correctly?

Green tea, what I would call the “baby” of the Tea family, often needs to be handled gently with patience!

How much should I put into my tea cup?

The amount of Green tea will really depends on the preference of the tea drinkers as well as the quality of the green tea itself. However, with professional tea brewing, we often follows general water and tea leaves ratio 1:50. However, my trick is make sure the tea leaves are covering the surface of the water, just very thin layer of it, and it’s usually not bad :)

The temperature: Again, it depends on the quality of your green tea. However, the general principle, you shouldn’t use 100C of boiled hot water to make Green Tea since it will damage the flavors of the tea as well as the leaves. 80C is what I often recommended to tea drinkers but no lower than 75C. Also, it’s very important to know that most of the time, the water will be added to the tea leaves, but with Green tea, there are actually three methods of brewing it and depends on the tea leaves. I will be showing what we called the Top Brewing Method this time: which is added water first, and then the tea leaves. This way, first of all, you can cools down the water if it’s too hot, and also allows the tea leaves falls in gently and have the water push out the flavors! Another trick, if you are not sure the temperature of the water, just put your fingers on the cup and if it can last for more than 5 - 6 sec, then it’s the perfect temperature! Again, never put the lid on after you made the tea, with the lid it will actually “cooking” the tea leaves.

Want more Green Tea? Green Tea is never the type of tea you can keep on drinking over and over, but then again, every time when you want to add water into the same tea leaves, you will need to add lower temperatures and never kept the tea leaves into the water that long. I often recommended for the first time, 25s, and then add another 10 - 15s based on your personal favors!

*You can go to my instagram (cssnakew) and watch this video clip on How to brew green tea :)

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