How to Brew Green Tea Properly 

I found this video after I made a cup of green tea with a teabag and boiling water. I then let it steep for 4 minutes as I do with black tea. Very bitter and not nice. I now know where I went wrong. Thank you Mr Mie Leaf, you are clearly an authority on tea making.

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using loose leaf green tea is such a game-changing! I start to drink green tea since I was a teen purely to lose weight lol. of course I started with the tea bag and it tastes horrid! very bitter and dark in colour. but I keep drinking for the perseverance of losing weight. then I try loose tea leaf and damn I feel like I have found a whole new world. it tastes very delicate and just how a green tea supposed to taste. I never watch how to brew green tea properly but I watch this just to gain knowledge. somehow after many years, I did it right without any guidance, I'm proud of myself! after a decade I still drink them and no more bitter taste! my friend hates it and she said she has to add sugar 😖

I was kept at my toes throughout the video - thanks for being so entertaining yet informative!

SO AWESOME!! LOVE HOW YOU GO INTO SO MUCH DETAIL!!

After watching you for a few years I rewatched this and I love how much you’ve evolved in your video techniques 😊

Thank you so much for this video! So helpful. Can’t wait to try this at home. Love green tea so it will be fun to see the difference. 💗

I've been drinking green tea since I was teenager. I am addicted to it. Can't start my day without my green tea. Thank you for your informative videos!

Bang on. Good green tea brewing is very much about finding the right temp for the individual tea leaf. Keep the good videos coming!

Get a water boiler where you can set the temp! Best money I ever spent to make my tea drinking more pleasant. Got modes for 40, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100 degrees. Its neat!

Seven years later and you're still helping us out. I'm practicing with an Azores green tea I picked up in Portugal. A wonderful game. :)

I just got my tea set and your videos are a really helpful starting point, thank you very much for making these!

Thank you for your informative videos about tea! I am becoming a fan of both your teas and your videos! Keep doing it!

This is so good! Such high quality content!

I love your love for green tea. Thanks for the info.

This video addressed many of the questions I was beginning to have and gave me enough information to do additional research. Thank you!

in last 6 months i starts drinking tea, and green tea is one of my favorite. but sometime i can't stand for its bitterness. thank you for guiding me to brew in 80 degrees, and use chinese way which only takes 10 seconds. now my green tea taste so good and even my friends really like it. the taste is not bitter at all. Don May you are the best on these!

Your videos are real eye-openers. Thank you so, so much!

I appreciate the very in depth break down! Thank you!

Very helpful, it has changed my tastebuds for green tea!

Hands down the most valuable video in that matter. Thank You!

Wow, thank you so much! A really good video as usual and you've perfectly answered my question ^_^ Thanks to you I now know how to brew green tea (important part of my day). Big thumbs up!

Unbelievable, this vid is great! Now I realized the differences in preparations and all the mistakes I was making! Thanks a bunch!

Very educational. Love your videos, thank you for the effort!

Excellent demonstration & rudimentary directions for novice tea drinkers. I will definitely switch from tea bags to loose tea.

Really enjoyed this video as it was well explained and I agree that this is a really important point to make with the heat of the water !

Oh my god..You brew that tea about a few seconds... I actually brewing my tea for 5 minutes or so... I shall start trying this, I suppose..

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Glad to see your based in London, i might actually be able to visit you guys! just getting into tea and i might buy from your online store as it all seems like very high quality stuff :) thanks for the videos

Thanks dude, you’re the best!

Very enjoyable to watch. I am by no means a tea expert - I drink my tea from regular "bags" or whatever they're called. But it would be nice to try tea made like this!

Thank u so much for sharing this..i brew greentea by wrongway! I will use this to brew my green tea..thanks!

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Man you are great at explaining these techniques. I can see you are very passionate about it. It comes through in your explanation. Truly wonderful tea videos.

I love your passion

Best channel about tea culture on YT.

Wonderful class Professor Tea Leaf! Thks!

Keep up the good work! loving your work!

Thank you for teaching me how to make green tea i use to make the water boil and use right away

Love it how he goes to so much details. 👌👌👌

Very good camera and audio work makes well presented and helpful video.

Thanks for your detail explanation. It's worth listening.

Fascinating and informative! Thank you!

Really enjoying these videos I'm binge watching you guys right now

Very well explained. This is a nice tutorial for all including a beginner like me. I was just confused a little about the brewing time. I though he mentioned that the brewing time for western tea should be 2 min but I also thought I saw him brewing for 20 secs. I'm confused but I'll watch it again. I probably missed something.

stumbled on your channel. soo informative! love it. subscribed 😊

very informative. thank you

Wonderful video! I really enjoyed watching.

Thank you for your guides to tea brewing, I find yours to be the most effective and informative. Another, imo huge, parameter of tea brewing is the water itself. Compare filtered/bottled water to tap water... I did once and never brewed with tap water again. It ruins taste and even looks. I think water should be as neutral as possible to be a medium for our good tea.

Wow.... thank you so much ... I've a problem with my gums reseeding. I hope the green tea will help with the problem...

great videos, thanks for the info!

Very informative-----! Thank you, Don!

Sounds good, looking forward to seeing if their is a difference detected on your end.

It makes perfect sense. One way you are over cooking the tea. I’m excited to try this

Thank you so much agood video for various teas

This was excellent and really informative, thanks

Yours videos are awesome, very informative and interesting. I always loved tea, but today I went out and bought the kung fu tea set and tried it... OMG I LOOOVE the whole experience. Thank you, Lots of love from Dubai

Superb knowledge sir

Very nice. Subscribed. Cheers from Croatia!

Wonderful information, thank you so much!!

Elegant classy ! Beautiful. Please post more tea master classes! ❤

Thankyou so much for the help, I brew mine with hot water direct form the kettle and it comes out brown and bitter. Trust me this has been a blessing from God. I have very little to no stomach issues when I drink this. ill continue doing this as I am trusting the process. awesome video.

Wow amazing ,complicated, head scratching video . Well ok I did learn a lot so thank you 👍🏽

I see you already answer these questions in a video. That I am watching now, thanks. Cheers!

You entire series is excellent. Thank you for sharing you knowledge and experiences with us. I think you made a subtle but also important point toward the end of the video that perhaps you can clarify / expand? We know that people with sensitive GI tracts and inflammatory disorders will benefit from the many compounds in green tea, but apparently some do not tolerate tannins. This video implied toward the end that longer brew times and higher temperatures would be higher tannins, so might another benefit of lower temperature and lower time also be less tannins and thus more suitable for those desiring less tannin but still wanting the health benefits of green tea?

hi, I really appreciate your always accurate videos, is there a video on Japanese cast iron teapots, their use, strengths and weaknesses? thank you very much

Excelent video!

Greetings from Hungary!!! Great videos!!!

Thanks for the good video! I think this applies to most green teas, but there seems to be an exception - Longjing. I totally fell in love with Longjing after my trip to China and was astonished to realize that good quality Longjing doesn´t turn bitter if made with boiling water and long brewing time. What´s your take on that? You can get more brews if you use 80-degree water, but I enjoy the stronger taste and falling leaves that I get when I brew it with boiling water.

So interesting! Thank you :)

Thank you, I enjoyed your video.

great video as always.... In Don's world time seems to be flowing a little more slowly than it is usually XD ...that 20s were actually something around 40-45s :)

thank you for sharing tea knowledge,its really amazing

Nice explanation! I suscribe

Wonderful.thank you

Very interesting video and I have learnt to make tea properly!

Great Information. Thank you

I like the video, very informative. For a black tea drinker, my first time to do green tea. I used a lot of tea leaves; so I think I did it the Chines way, and it is a Chinese green tea as the seller told me ....

I have a suggestion for a video. The different types of clay for Yixing zisha teapots.

I am delighted to have found this channel! I found it by accident when I was looking at whether or not I might be able to make iced tea using green tea, and if so, whether it should be hot (let's say 80 degrees C) or cold brewed. This heatwave we're having just made me think about having my green tea cold instead of hot. Your thoughts on this would be most appreciated - and maybe that's a subject for a video one day? (You may already have done it - I have yet to go through your back catalogue, but I've subscribed so I will keep an eye on the channel in the months to come.)

I've been drinking 3 quarts of iced green tea a day for a few years. I cold brew it at least 6 hours in the refrigerator, never with hot water. Cold brewing doubles the catechins and halves the tannins and caffeine. No bitterness, no Sweetener needed.

In Greece we have Madras, a great tea company. They have all kinds of tea (green, black, white, pu-er, oolong, etc.). But what is special about them is that they flavor tea naturally (orange, apple, litchi, lemon, etc.) without adding any chemicals to it. Unique!

Such a nice and useful video. Thanks very much. I usually made fruit green tea such as orange green tea, lemon green tea. Can you tell me which is the best brewing time if I use the green tea for making fruit green tea?

Thank you so much 😊

Very informative video. I subscribed!

Very nice video, you convinced me to subscribe. Well done sir!

I hope that one day you will make a video on the perfect Morocco tea :) gunpowder is such a bitter tea and Moroccans tend to use boiling water which does not help. As per the subject of this video a different water temperature could make a huge difference! thank you!

Thanks for the class! :) I love bitter green tea, I wait small bubbles and brew for 10 min+ Do u know what tempeture is the best to have the most Vitamin C? As it loses with heat.. The more bitter the more polyphenols? Thanks!

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much! 🍵

Hello! Loved this video (and more from your channel). It answered most of the questions I had about green tea brewing. Just had one question - so when I have leaf tea, I enjoy it so much I tend to top up the water in the pot and brew it several times till it gets almost clear. Throwing away the tea leaves seem to be a waste, but then my Chinese friend said it may be bad for health to drink tea that has been brewed multiple times. How many brews do you normally make with one portion? Thanks!!

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Hi. Thanks. My recommendation so all teas like green teas are like matcha (pure match not matcha powder, not match blended w/ other stuff, though this method still won't be able to match pure match in terms of medicinal benefits), if one is not too picky with taste is to just brew the leaf (if it's tea bag, open the back pour it into the cup) as long as possible (the longer the more potent but the more bitter though) and just add some sweetener like pure honey if you like or Stevia (to avoid being a diabetic later in life- which could cause blindness and other complications), eat the leaves with the spoon first (it's bitter but it's not that bad) and then drink the brew. I use measuring tools all the time including a stop watch. I hope someday, there'll be a high tech cup and bowl that has a temp indicator (analog maybe) and a USB heater to maintain 80 C, 90C for white tea at 1 to 1.5 minutes) that also has a built-in graduation and built-in weighing scale in the cup (could be analog as well), a wind up timer built in too, and it looks like a traditional japanese bowl design. God bless, Proverbs 31

Love the videos, they have all taught me a lot and am excited every time I receive my order. One question, at my work we are told not to pour hot water over tea leafs because it can burn the tea. This surely isn't true? We use Canton tea company, teas like dragonwell green, gunpowder.. etc. Temperature of the water ranging from 69degrees - 95 degrees depending on the tea. Can you tell me if this is myth?

I always add honey to green tea. And I love green tea!

Brilliant video... keep it up

thanks, you are very thorough in your explanation . what I have learned is 80 c for 20 seconds is the ideal for aroma extraction. Is this applicable for tea ball infusion ? Should I then infuse it longer with tea ball (put it back in) to extract thus benefit from catechin, and the time now is depending on our liking.

Good info! Subscribed!

Great video 👏👏👏 I miss Imperial Green and Dragon Pearl tea

Great video