This is a slightly sweet, slightly floral white tea. As it is pure bud it is probably high in caffeine so I will want to drink it only in the morning. A year ago I suspect I would not have liked this tea but my tastes are changing. I now like a lot of floral teas. The flavor used to bother me. This is an excellent tea. I got it at the Yunnan Sourcing 20% off sale a couple of weeks ago. At that point I had been going under the prevailing theory that white and green tea have less caffeine. Articles recently posted on Steepster suggest this may be false, ah well.
I brewed this once in a 16oz Teavana Perfect Tea Maker/Gravity Steeper with 3 tsp leaf and 185 degree water for 2 min.
Flavors: Floral
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All things the same the cooler the water the less caffeine(and other compounds you extract). Unfortunately two teas are never the same due to geographic differences in soil, sunshine, also differences in cultivar, age of bush/tree (caffeine is a natural pesticide for plants), season it is plucked, how often the bush/tree is plucked and finally the processing. Saying a certain category of tea has a certain caffeine is too much of a blanket statement. The only time such a statement can be used is with plantation tea of big box retailers because by definition retail are looking for a standardized consistency
This book is the only one I am aware of that did proper scientific experimentation to get exact mgs of caffeine and theanine but once again they referenced very specific teas from a agriculture product that is no long available for purchase but at the very least you can have a better understanding or reference point.
Best rule of thumb
Higher bud to leaf ratio, higher caffeine
Caffeine example eg; all buds > 1 bud to 1 leaf > 2 leaves to 1 bud, etc
also summer generally has most caffeine where as spring has most theanine VERY generally speaking
Neat, I did not know this Jiang Luo.
All things the same the cooler the water the less caffeine(and other compounds you extract). Unfortunately two teas are never the same due to geographic differences in soil, sunshine, also differences in cultivar, age of bush/tree (caffeine is a natural pesticide for plants), season it is plucked, how often the bush/tree is plucked and finally the processing. Saying a certain category of tea has a certain caffeine is too much of a blanket statement. The only time such a statement can be used is with plantation tea of big box retailers because by definition retail are looking for a standardized consistency
http://www.amazon.com/Tea-Terroirs-Varieties-Kevin-Gascoyne/dp/1770853197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424738928&sr=1-1
This book is the only one I am aware of that did proper scientific experimentation to get exact mgs of caffeine and theanine but once again they referenced very specific teas from a agriculture product that is no long available for purchase but at the very least you can have a better understanding or reference point.
Best rule of thumb
Higher bud to leaf ratio, higher caffeine
Caffeine example eg; all buds > 1 bud to 1 leaf > 2 leaves to 1 bud, etc
also summer generally has most caffeine where as spring has most theanine VERY generally speaking
Neat, I did not know this Jiang Luo.