Tagged: water hardness

What Your Tap Water Does to a Cup of Assam

Two households can brew the same tin of Assam, the same weight of leaf, the same boil, and still end up with two different cups. The variable is the calcium and magnesium already in the water, not the tea, before the kettle ever gets involved.

Briskness

Briskness is a live, bright character in the liquor. What the word means, the formula behind it, and what raises or dulls it.