How to Brew Loose Leaf Tea

hi I'm Besson resident tea expert here at wit art there's a common misconception that making loose-leaf tea is really arduous but actually with the right equipment it's incredibly simple and much better for the environment today I'm going to use our Chelsea teapot it's made of glass so you can really see what's going on inside as the tea steeps I'm gonna make our English Rose which is a black tea blend with rosebuds now depending what type of tea you want to make and you need to adjust the temperature of water and the amount of leaf that you use don't worry our packaging all has specific instructions on it in general you want to use freshly boiled water for black teas and pure tea and fruit and herbal infusions for white green and yellow teas use 80 degree water they're more delicate and using freshly boiled water will burn the leaf and make the flavor slightly bitter black tea is best with one spoon per person there's tea pots are quite big so I'm using two and I'm gonna use freshly boiled water again black tea and fruit and her'll infusions efest with freshly boiled water the higher temperature pulls out a lot of the color from the leaf and also flavors that work well with milk if you're drinking a black teeth so it pulls out polyphenols caffeine and catechins the average steeping time in Britain is 3.5 seconds this is just not long enough for the really complex lovely flavors of tea to come through so you do have to be patient with loose leaf we also do not want to squash tea leaves many people squash the bag against the side of the cup to make it infuse quicker but this is a terrible thing to do to tea as it pulls out all the tannins and the bitter flavor compounds that you just don't want in your tea one of the major benefits with loose leaf teas when you get a good quality blends it that you can steep it several times so black tea and fruit and herbal we recommend one or two steeps but green tea poor ulong tea are all fantastic for three or four now all that's left is to pour that you've got a beautiful infusion black tea just give a little bit longer if you want to add milk but otherwise this kind of color is perfect you can enjoy your tea if you'd like to learn more about loose leaf tea go to Witter code at UK or click in the link in the description

Channel: Whittard of Chelsea Official

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Length: 2min 35sec (155 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 14 2018