Yellow Tea Brewing

Brewing yellow tea at the office or on the road is easy with the right kit. Temperatures, ratios and gear that travel.

The usual yellow tea mistakes are simple: water hot enough to flatten its mellow, corn-silk note. Here is how to avoid each one.

Yellow tea: gongfu, Western or grandpa? This guide compares the three brewing methods and shows which fits the leaf.

For yellow tea use 2-3 g per 150 ml and steep 1-2 minutes. This guide gives exact ratios and times.

Yellow tea sits in a narrow band between green and white, and guessing wrong costs the quality that makes it worth drinking. Where the window is.

What that step produces is a mellow, corn silk sweetness that sits in a narrow band. Too much heat flattens it into plain hay.