hi everybody welcome back to tea with
Phil and Zhen today I'm going to walk you
through how to brew a mystery along it's
our next installment in our intuitive
brewing series and then we're going to
give you the tools tips and hacks on
what you do when you're presented with a
tea that you're not entirely sure even
what it is well you've just got the tea
in front of you and you want to do your
best step brewing it let's get started
alright so let's get brewing I've got my
mystery along here so the most important
thing you need to determine when you're
dealing with the mystery tea is what a
what liquor color are we going to be
looking for so to do that we've got to
examine the dry leaf so I can see here
I've got a fairly green oolong and
you're basically looking at two
categories of wrong in this case you bet
your dreamy lungs or your lighter lungs
and your darker ones your lighter lungs
are going to render something like a
yellow gold liquor your dark oolong
something more in the orange and darker
orange tones the other thing I'm going
to have a quick peek at is the role of
the leaf this leaf is pretty tight
pretty nicely rolled so I'm going to
factor that in when I come up with my
ski time so let's give it a rinse and
get going all right and for the factors
like a steep time leaf amount check the
links up above oK we've covered those in
our intuitive brewing series definitely
go ahead and check those out so I'll
just give this a quick rinse
and then I will start on the first
infusion okay so I've already had a look
at the leaf to determine my liquor color
I've looked at how rolled it is for this
particular tea I'm targeting somewhere
around 30 maybe 45 seconds so I'll just
wait I'll let it infuse so as I get
close to this deep time I'm going to
have a little peak and it looks pretty
good it's in this sort of zone that I'm
looking for take our infusion out and
now we will simply taste assess and
adjust let's have a taste
nice aroma
I think I did a pretty good job at this
the flavor is there and I think I'm
going to just probably have a slightly
quicker infusion on the next one because
the leaf has started to unroll quite
nicely let's do it
this one will literally just be a few
seconds I can see that the liquor colors
already there
all right so to recap basically when
we're brewing what we're dealing with an
unknown oolong we need to assess the dry
leaf in order to establish what the
liquor color should be when we're
finished our infusion we also want to
look at how tightly rolled the lease is
and then simply get to it brew your tea
taste assess and adjust so get out there
get brewing get lots of experience
within long it's delicious and have fun
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