In lieu of posting a new thread, I think this is a good place to bring up a Tieguanyin question I’ve been putting off a little while.
On the site, it says the following:
Adjust tealeaves to water ratio for infusing at 90°C for 2 minutes for the first infusion. Increase time by 15% for each subsequent infusion.
I’m not 100% certain what I should interpret from this – that is, I’m not sure how to “adjust the ratio” to infuse for that duration. My first assumption was that, in the conventional approach 2 minutes is 40% of the time usually given to tea (5 minutes), so I should add 60% more leaves. However, that doesn’t seem to make sense when logic is applied. What should I do to adapt to that bit of information? So far, I’ve mostly consumed this at a standard 1g to 100ml ratio, with occasional dips into 2g to 100ml. I am also (generally) gaiwan bound, as the teapot I have here is rather large (about 500ml) if that changes what I’m supposed to take away from all that.
Not yet done gungfu style either, so perhaps the information is a modification to that method?
Thanks,
M.
