tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106808.post110032039340686633..comments2017-05-24T19:38:04.164+08:00Comments on Tea Talk: Do you have the right water for brewing tea?TeaHubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02696889659717145623noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106808.post-63824928855740867882009-04-14T02:35:00.000+08:002009-04-14T02:35:00.000+08:00Thank you for the thoughtful comments. From our ex...Thank you for the thoughtful comments. From our experiences, minerals, PH levels do affect tastes even colors of teas. <BR/><BR/>Linda<BR/><A HREF="http://www.teahub.com" REL="nofollow">www.teahub.com</A>TeaHubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696889659717145623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106808.post-89874143300348443052009-04-12T16:52:00.000+08:002009-04-12T16:52:00.000+08:00How would one possibly choose water? Unless you me...How would one possibly choose water? Unless you mean using bottled water, which costs about 1000(!!!) as much, which I hope you do not recommend. The practice of bottling water is very damaging to our environment with all the transport it needs. But if you use just normal tap water you get what you get, it's not like you will go to another city to get their tap water and test if it's better. In reality this is not a choice, unless you run a tea restaurant maybe, then you can add limestone or salts or acids to your water to balance it if you have huge amounts of it, for day to day purposes this is just not feasible, you get the water you get. I have had most wonderful tea in places with chalk-rich water and in Nordic/Russian forest areas where the water is very acidic.<BR/>But yes keeping the oxygen in the water is important, that's why you don't use long boiled water. Another trick is to pour the water with a lot of force open the tap to it's strongest when you fill up your water container, this will make the air's oxygen get into the water, also this is why many cultures develop a custom of serving tea by pouring it from very high so it foams a little.Johanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918339750002699153noreply@blogger.com