tea-sipper select Send Message

547 Followers / 499 Following

94
drank Tie Kuan Yin by Nature's Tea Leaf
4324 tasting notes

Additional notes: I’m trying this one again with much different parameters. I know when I tried this years ago I definitely let the water cool much longer. I wanted to try it the way I steep Teavivre’s oolongs. This one is still very tasty! It seems some green oolongs do very well with boiling water. All of the steeps were very full flavored and never bitter or astringent. A lovely standard oolong.
Two teaspoons (for mug)// just boiled // rinse // 1 min // 2 min // 3 min
2 comments
Edit
Lion
Delete

I have read that with green teas the reason for low temperatures is that you want to extract sweet amino acids in the tea without extracting the tannin, but with oolongs, their signature sweetness and flavor actually comes from polyphenols (tannin is one of them), which require a higher temperature to release, so you can still get pretty good results even at boiling temperatures.

The melting point of tannin is 175F, I’ve read.

tea-sipper
Delete

Interesting!

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

Comments

Lion
Delete

I have read that with green teas the reason for low temperatures is that you want to extract sweet amino acids in the tea without extracting the tannin, but with oolongs, their signature sweetness and flavor actually comes from polyphenols (tannin is one of them), which require a higher temperature to release, so you can still get pretty good results even at boiling temperatures.

The melting point of tannin is 175F, I’ve read.

tea-sipper
Delete

Interesting!

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

Profile

Bio

Hi! I love tea and trying new ones – it adds a bit of variety to my day! Books, music, TV & movies are my thing… and tea, of course.

Some of my favorite tea shops (still operating):
birdandblendtea.com
teavivre.com
52teas.com
svtea.com
whisperingpinestea.com
justea.com
harney.com
Dammann Freres
fusionteas.com
shop.Javateaco.com
Lupicia
Octaviatea.com
Davidstea.com
eco-cha.com
what-cha.com
singleoriginteas.com
teasenz.com
tealyra.com
Mandalatea.com
verdanttea.com

Favorite tea shops (RIP):
butikiteas.com
steapshoppe.com
steepcityteas.com
aquartertotea.com
dellaterrateas.com
zentealife.com
angrytearoom.com
theteamerchant.net
joysteaspoon.com
tealiciousllc.com
Rivertea
Specialteas

My icon photo is Richard Mayhew from the graphic novel ‘Neverwhere’ by Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey & Glenn Fabry.

Most of the teas listed in my cupboard are actually sample sizes. I don’t really have 2,000 ounces of tea around here! Many of my teas have only one teaspoon left… maybe two. But I like keeping them in my cupboard list for reference to what I could be sipping. Usually, I write tasting notes once for each tea. I’m still drinking them, just not writing tasting notes each time!

I’m always in search of: Hattialli, Qu Hao black, Jin Jun Mei, teas using marshmallow root.

My dislikes: hibiscus, ginger (unless in chai), turmeric, bee pollen, charcoal type flavors

My ratings:
95-100 – Super awesome deliciousness favorites – cupboard essential
80-95 – Also pretty delicious
65-80 – Pretty good
50-65 – Okay
1-50 – Probably won’t want to sip it again

I’m planning on being a Steepsterer as long as there IS a Steepster, so if you’re not hearing from me, that means something happened to my health… if you know what I mean. (Or as evidenced by the great computer hiatus of 2019, something happened to my computer… I have a dumb phone so can’t access internet on that. As of 12/20/21 my wifi might start getting unreliable.)

Happy sipping!

Location

USA

Following These People

See More

Moderator Tools

Mark as Spammer