This Tie Guan Yin Oolong, known also as Iron Buddha or Iron Goddess of Mercy, is a traditional Chinese tea based on Camellia Sinensis plant. Tea comes from the Wuyi Mountains and is medium oxidized, below 35%. Beautiful leaves are tightly curled in to the small beads, each with a tail. Liquor is yellowish-green which is very clear. With each subsequent steep colour gaining more intensity but remain very clear. Subtle fragrance of fresh, sweet flowers precedes the unique fruity taste characteristic for medium fermented Oolong tea. Delicate honey under taste is more noticeable with each sip.  

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Ingredients: 100% Oolong Tie Guan Yin.

As it is Oolong tea and have properties both of green tea and black tea, we recommend to experience your own method of brewing this tea. Because this particular Oolong is medium fermented we suggest to brew it at lower temperature than black tea, but higher than green tea. And it is a guidance only. Best practice is to find your own, favourite way of brewing.

Classic: 2 to 3 grams, 200 mills of water at over 90 C degrees, 3 to 5 mins depend on preferences. After you have finished brewing, remove the leaves out of the cup/teapot – if they remain in the water too long, they start releasing tannins. Tannin makes tea taste bitter, inhibits absorption of magnesium and iron which are necessary for the body to function properly.

Subsequent: 3 to 5 grams of tea, 80 to 100 mills of water over 90 C degrees, first brewing up to 35 second and each next about 15 - 20 sec longer.

All brewing tips is a guidance only. The best is experiment to find own way depend on preferences.

Tea bags: we do not provide Oolong tea with  teabags. As this is leaf tea  rolled into long curly leaves, or 'wrap-curled' into small beads each with a tail, it required a lot more space to uncurl and infuse tea soup than teabag can offer. Only one exclusion is Tie Guan Yin Oolong Black Oil Cut tea which is formed to tiny small beads with smaller tail.

But still remember: all our teabags are in 100% compostable. Make your own compost.