Steepwell Tea Noteshttps://steepwellteanotes.com/Tea notes kept at home in Ghent since 2021: water hardness, steeping temperatures, weighing and blending small batches, and how leaf keeps through a Flemish winter.enStoring leaf through a damp Flemish winterhttps://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/storing-leaf-through-a-damp-winter/https://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/storing-leaf-through-a-damp-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.Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTBlending by weight on a scale that reads to a hundredthhttps://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/blending-by-weight-on-a-kitchen-scale/https://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/blending-by-weight-on-a-kitchen-scale/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.Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMTKeeping an honest log of steep times and temperatureshttps://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/temperature-and-the-second-steep/https://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/temperature-and-the-second-steep/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.Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:00:00 GMTWhat the water out of my tap does to green teahttps://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/what-the-tap-water-here-does-to-green-tea/https://steepwellteanotes.com/journal/what-the-tap-water-here-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.Sun, 21 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT