Steeping Green and White tea

I believe it should work by the cold steeping method, but why not try both ways to see which you prefer? Toci

Thank you - I am doing that. It clearly takes longer to steep than green tea, which usually leaves a fairly good drink after only an hour or two.

When drunk hot, it tends to be made a little more weakly than typical greens, I think. It's supposed to be subtle, and I think that subtlety is going to be lost when icing it. But it would be interesting to try, indeed.

Cold steeping gives you a very different result than hot steeping and it's not always predictable.

--scott

You're right. I've had a chance to try it now, and, for my taste, it's a little too subtle.

However, steeping it with green tea gives a very pleasantly enhanced experience. What I've done is have one 2g teabag of white tea along with one of green in 2 litres of water overnight. That's about half the strength you'd make either in hot steeping, but you drink about twice the volume when it's cold.

I'm not sure if I'm getting everything from the leaves this way, so I'm trying something else as well. When I've completed the steeping, I'm putting the leaves in the freezer. When I've got a few frozen, then I'll see what they produce from a steeping. My logic is that freezing them will break open the cells without oxidizing the contents, so it might be possible to produce another, maybe stronger, maybe just different, brew.

I'll keep you posted.

Well, I've tried this. I put two of the frozen white tea bags in to steep and I got another brew! Not strong, but quite good enough to enjoy. So it's a nice economical way of extending the precious stuff a bit further.

In all its forms bud,leaf,mix the class of white teas is cheap and plentiful compared to other more rare and expensive teas from China.

Jim

...talking to himself which I do occasionally...

I'm sure you can spend more on pretty well anything, but, to me, white tea is expensive already!

The rare and expensive Chinese teas are, mainly, white teas, as far as I can tell, or are you suggesting that some black, green or oolong teas are more expensive than white ones?

Yes. Tea prices are basically supply and demand especially with Chinese. They do grade some teas and add a premium for that so you can buy Dragonwell cheap or expensive. White tea isnt graded but spring bud is more expensive than fall leaf. Comparatively white teas are cheap so that is a bargain.

Jim

You've lost me there. Comparatively to what are white teas cheap?

Asked and answered.

Jim

If you don't know, fair enough, but your previous post didn't include an answer to that question. At least not one that made any sense to me.

Some white teas are expensive and some are cheap. In New York, you can probably buy Shou Mei (Sow Mee) for a penny a gram. (I haven't checked lately.) At the top end, I've never heard of any white tea as expensive as some rare oolongs and Pu'ers.

/Lew

Isn't it odd! I'd expect oolongs always to be cheaper than white - but there you are!

Compare YinZhen to more expensive green teas like LiuAnGuaPian,Tai Ping Hou Kui, oolongs like any Dan Cong, rock teas like Rou Gui. You'll find many red teas like a premium grade QiHong which arent that much cheaper.

Jim

PS My previous Lapsang Souch> Peter Brooks snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes:

Wow, never thought of BBQ sauce with tea... a big light bulb went on above my head reading that. A really dark and smoky tea (like a number I have been given as gifts that I will never drink) would be really good in cooking. I never even think of them since I don't drink them. I've done some stuff with green tea and oolong in cooking but that is a great idea!

I stayed out of the which tea is more expensive but I'd throw quite a few of my greens in the ring against most white teas... and some of my most expensive white teas I would just throw.

- Dominic