STeaP #50 - Happy Birthday, Joe!
Today we are trying Firefly from The Simple Leaf and Darjeeling Makaibari Estate from Choice Organic Teas, both at 5 minutes with boiling water. It’s also Joe’s 30th birthday celebration! Are you having fun yet?
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Your videos are quirky, but actually fairly informative. I discovered you from your video clip on Adagio’s website regarding their Earl Grey Bravo.
I have one suggestion that would be helpful for newbie’s, like me. You give the time and temperature, but you do not give the give the amouunt of tea or the amount of water. This would be helpful. I would prefer the tea in grams, rather than teaspoons, and the water in milliliters, but I can easily convert from ounces or cups.
Actually, I have a second suggestion. It would be helpful to see the actual brewing process, rather than having it off camera. You’d be surprised how much a newbie can learn from watching what may be obvious to the more experienced.
Now I have a question: On the Earl Grey Bravo clip, you brewed something like 6 cups and then poured out 2 cups at 3, 5, and 7 minutes. Is this a valid test of brewing time? The water keeps decrfeasing but the tea remains constant. If you started with 6 cups of water and 12 grams of tea, the 3-minute brew was at 2g/cup.
The 5-minute brew is somewhat more complicated. At first, I thought it was at 3g/cup (12/4), but the first 3 minutes was still at 2g/cup and only the last 2 minutes at 3g/cup, so the average should be 2.4g/cup ((3*2 + 2*3) / 5)?
If I did that right, then the 7-minute brew would be at 3/4g/cup on average ((3*2 + 2*3 + 2*6) / 7.
What do you think?
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