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like the channel today I'm going to show you how to brew tie guan yin in a gaiwan a yixing
teapot and a western style teapot so let's get started here's what you need to brew tie guan
yin in a gaiwan a gaiwan of course a sharing pot and a tea cup a filter is nice to have
if you don't like any leaves in your cup but I'll skip it today I always warm up the vessel
before brewing then toss the leaf in today's main character is Tie Guan Yin the greenish
leaves give off a beautiful orchid fragrance and makes a refreshing and crisp sip it's a great
morning tea for me we'll fill the gaiwan until it's about 1/3 full of tie guan yin so that a
once the tea expands the gaiwan will be nearly full of leaf mmm I can smell the aroma of the
leaves already with tieguanyin we'll definitely be using boiling water first I'll give the gaiwan a
short rinse this will encourage those tightly rolled balls to lose up and prepare them for
our first infusion once the rinse water is out we'll dive right back in the first infusion is
going to take a little bit longer as we still need to give the tea some time to continue to
unravel and loosen up the rinse helps with this but it will still take some time all right once
the infusion is ready we'll pour it out and enjoy again we're using liquor color as our
guide as to when this infusion is ready to come out the more you do this the more you
will develop an instinct or an intuition about when the tea is ready to be honest aroma plays
in too the size of a gaiwan I chose gives more than a cup each brew so feel free to add more
cups for whoever else you are having tea with and I do hope you are making tea with your friends and
family regularly that's what tea is about the second infusion will be a lot faster because we
used the proper tea amount in the gaiwan and the tea is now starting to unroll more fully
this infusion is understandably a lot faster but you can see the liquor color is still consistent
move on with the infusions we add about 5 to 10 seconds for each successive infusion this
steep time and infusion thing somehow triggered my nerdy side and voila here is a chart for you
if you go with my recommended leave amount in the vessel and use this time curve your brew will be
fine in total this leaf yielded us a delicious infusions and you can see in a gaiwan the leaf
has expanded almost a filling the gaiwan to the brim let's move on to brewing in a lot of people's
favorite vessel for tie guan yin ok maybe it's just my favorite vessel the yixing teapot these
are more than just adorable little teapots - they provide a fantastic heat retention and slightly
enhance the flavor profile of the tea so you will need an yixing teapot the cup and a sharing pot
again we'll first to warm up the vessels and rinse our tea and of course we're always using freshly
boiled water with tea tie guan yin we're aiming to have the teapot just about full of leaf once
it expands so I'll use the same one third for technique that I use for the gaiwan of course
it can be a little harder to tell in the dark interior of a teapot but it will find a way
to get close to our optimum leaf amount we're not making delicated pastries here so there is
definitely margin for some error don't worry about it too much just get as close as you can when I am
brewing in a teapot I feel it to the ring it will overflow a little bit when we place the lid on and
we'll give it little splash on the outside this gets the whole teapot nice and hot so the water
inside it can retain its temperature similar to gaiwan brewing the second and the third infusions
are going to be much quicker than the first and we'll pretty much be flashing infusing until we
notice the leaf starts to slow down we ended up getting eight infusions for this great tea
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for brewing in western teapot we use the stylish cold brew vessel that was gifted
to us just a humor us and pretend this is a teapot if you're using this method for your
travel mug brewing you are on the right track and if you won't need the cups just swing away
when the tea is cool enough let's toss the leaf into the teapot or the travel mug and
add boiling water so we rinse the tea in both gaiwan and yi xing tea pot brewing but we won't
be rinsing the tea leaf here the primary reason for rinsing the leaf before is to loosen the
leaf up because they are whole leaves not cut up pieces like tea bags if you prefer not to
rinse the tea when doing gongfu brewing your first infusion will be longer considering the
kung-fu brewing leaf and water ratio that will go out slightly more bitterness and astringency
so we recommend a rinse for those methods for the western teacup brewing the leaf will
obviously be sitting there the whole time so we are tuning our leaf amount to minimize bitterness
and astringency not to mention our conceptual teapot is a bit tricky to do the rinsing and
again liquor color is our friend telling us when that he is ready time to enjoy some tea
and that my friend is how to brew a gaiwan a yi xing teapot or western style teapot we
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