This recipe is still under development and may change in the future. This recipe focuses on the energy, vibrancy and charisma of tea. While providing a rather reliable brew, it should invigorate its strengths and character, offering an intense and charming experience. The recipe benefits from the unique effect on tea provided by the interaction of the sodium and chloride ions. When the right balance is achieved, they seem to work in unison to enhance the sapidity and liveliness READ MORE
Sant’Anna™ Revisited №1: Shòu Jīn Tǐ 瘦金體 – PREVIEW
This recipe is still under development and may change in the future. This recipe focuses on balance and transparency, and should be suited for any tea. In my experiments, it produced a clear, reliable and vibrant brew, where volatile compounds were intense and easy to discern through retronasal olfaction, and taste was fully-expressed and transparent. The bones of tea (身骨), its tactile sensations, were intense. If you wish for the body of your brew to be even more present READ MORE
Comparing Two Balhyocha 발효차 from Hwagae-myeon 화개면, by La finestra sul tè
I am temporarily back in Italy, away from my tea and teaware. On the upside, I took the chance to visit a dear friend and mentor in tea: Nicoletta Tul, owner of La finestra sul tè in Padua – former Venetian Studio at the centre of the events of The Taming of The Shrew – and partake in her most recent orders from Táiwān and South Korea. The latter shipment consisted of an especially compelling and lively bunch of READ MORE
Water Recipe Calculator – v.18
This tool was designed to serve as a Swiss army knife for simplifying the common calculations required in the processes of remineralizing water and creating new recipes. Click on the following link to create a copy of the calculator spreadsheet on the main folder of your Google Drive. Water Recipe Calculator (v.18) – Google Sheets To start working on a recipe: Please input into the orange cells the desired concentration in milligrams per litre for each salt that you READ MORE
Water Remineralization Guide
This guide owes much to the blogs of Tea Secrets / Empirical Tea. Please refer to their posts for a comparison with a slightly different approach. NOTE THAT YOU ARE USING THIS GUIDE COMPLETELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF INCORRECT, IRRESPONSIBLE, OR INCOMPETENT USE OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED. IT IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE THAT ALL SALTS & COMPOUNDS THAT YOU ARE CONSUMING ARE PHARMA / FOOD GRADE CERTIFIED BY A TRUSTED READ MORE
Purified Water Remineralization for Tea Brewing
茶者水之神，水者茶之體。非真水莫顯其神，非精茶曷窺其體。Tea is the spirit in water, while water is the body that carries tea.Without pure water, the spirit will not show itself.Likewise, without excellent tea, its body will be obscured.1Zhāng Yuán 張源, Chá Lù 茶錄, Tea Notes, 1595 精茗蘊香，借水而發，無水不可與論茶也。The fragrance of tea can only be uncovered by water.We cannot talk about tea, without water.Xǔ Cìshū 許次紓, Chá Shū 茶疏, Memorial on Tea, 1597 七分水，三分茶Seven parts water, three parts tea.(70% of a cup of tea comes from the water, 30% READ MORE
An Attempt at Creating a Rosetta Stone of Primary Tea Biology
There has been a lot of debate on the topic of the limits of a taxonomical approach for understanding tea processing. With the goal of grasping what tea production is comprised of, is it more useful to think about it in terms of a series of succeeding independent steps, or as a continuum where each step blurs into the previous one and into the next? In the same way, the lexicon that encompasses the processing of tea is so READ MORE