How To Blend Tea For Hard Water / Soft Water. How Do I Choose Teas For Local Tea Blends? TEA Q&A
Channel: Gadsden Tea
Date: 2017-03-06

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How do I blend tea for hard or soft water? 
How did I choose the teas for my "Local Blended Teas"? 

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My "Local Tea Blends" are teas that I make specially for the water of a particular local area - hard water, soft water, etc. 

Hard water extracts flavour from tea differently to soft water. Soft water is more acidic, and it brings the flavour out quickly. Hard water brings the flavour out slowly. 

That does not necessarily mean that soft water makes a better cup of tea! If you use poor quality tea, soft water can make for a really bitter, rough-tasting brew. 

What it means is that soft water needs a smooth, "flavoury" tea and hard water needs a rich, full-flavoured malty blend. 

In practice, that means that soft water blends should be Ceylon-based, and hard-water blends should be Assam/Kenya-based. 
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