Ruby #18 Black Tea - 2oz Higher temperatures closer to 100°c

Higher temperatures closer to 100°c will produce more medicinal notes

Use roughly three to four grams of tea per 100 ml of water

heavy-bodied

and overwhelming notes of sweet cream

From the third steep onward it is fine to add up to thirty additional seconds per steep

Ruby #18 Black Tea - 2oz Higher temperatures closer to 100°cMany of the tea cultivars discovered and perfected in Taiwan have numbers for nicknames: JinXuan is called #12, Jade cultivar is known as #13. Ruby #18 is one of these; a cross between a wild Formosan tea plant and Assam, developed specifically to make phenomenal black tea. Grown near the famous Sun Moon Lake in Nantou, Taiwan, Ruby #18 is one of the most popular black teas in Taiwan and the rest of East Asia, no small feat considering the regions