Index, 2023 onward
Cups
Everything that has been written up properly, most recent first. The earliest entry here dates from 21 May 2023; the loose pages before that were shopping lists with tasting remarks in the margin.
Water · Method · Blending · Storage
19 Aug 2025
Storing leaf through a damp Flemish winter
A ground floor flat that sits near seventy percent humidity from November to February, the jar of spring green that went flat in it, and what actually keeps air and damp out.
Storage · 8 minutes · last amended 23 Feb 2026
26 Nov 2024
Blending by weight on a scale that reads to a hundredth
Spoons made my blends irreproducible. Building sixty gram batches by percentage, the way a cheap precision scale misbehaves, and the batch I overdosed with dried peel.
Blending · 9 minutes · last amended 15 Apr 2025
11 Feb 2024
Keeping an honest log of steep times and temperatures
My kettle reads one thing and the cup is another. Measured cooling curves in a nineteen degree kitchen, and why my second steeps were always disappointing.
Method · 8 minutes · last amended 4 Jul 2024
21 May 2023
What the water out of my tap does to green tea
Ghent water is harder than I realised. Six weeks of brewing the same leaf with tap, filtered and very low mineral water, and which differences turned out to be real.
Water · 7 minutes · last amended 8 Oct 2023
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