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According to the personal fancy, people can choose either porcelain or purple clay tea set to brew tie guan yin tea. Since the light ferment tie guan yin tea has been popular recently, which values tea’s fragrance more, we advice you to choose the porcelain tea set (tureen or tea pot). Because they are propitious to emit the aroma of tie guan yin tea. Why not the purple clay tea set? That because of its low density, the holes of the pot will absorb some tea fragrance, and the smelling you get will be less. Certainly, it would be ok for the people who love collecting pots to use the purple clay tea set to brew the tie guan yin tea, only need to “share” some tie guan yin with the pot.

Now take tureen for example to show how to brew tie guan yin tea:

1. Take a right amount of tea leaves (usually 7g for one pack) and put them into the tureen, then brew them with boiling water.

2. Scrape the foam with the lid.

3. Pour dragon well tea rapidly into a fair mug (The fair mug ensures that every guest can drink the oolong tea with same concentration, same aroma and same color. So it is fair to everybody.). Put a trap valve on the fair mug for filtering the pulverized tea leaves. Since the this step is to wash the tea but not to drink, we’d better rush the tea in and out quickly.

4. Wash the trap valve and tureen with the first tea water in the fair mug.

5. When finished washing, brew the second tea with boiling water, then cover the lid.

6. Keep the leaves in water for only 15 seconds then pour tea water into the fair mug. According to personal fancies to adjust the time, overtime if you feel it is wishy-washy and shorten the span if you feel it taste strong.

7. Pour the tea of the fair mug into the tureens to have a taste.

8. Savouring the charm of tie guan yin, then uncover the lid to brew the next tea