Brewing data

First-party brewing parameters for every tea on the site — real grams, real temperatures, real steep schedules. This is the same data that powers the grams calculator and brewing timer, published as a plain table so people — and machines — can read it without running our app.

Leaf dose, water temperature, and gongfu steep schedule for each tea type on TeaForCalm.
Tea	Family	Caffeine	Leaf (g / 100 ml)	Water (°C)	First steep	Steeps
Black Tea	Black	high	4	95	8s	4+
Green Tea	Green	medium	3	80	15s	3+
Herbal Tea (Tisanes)	Herbal	none	3	100	—	—
Matcha	Green	high	3	80	—	—
Oolong Tea	Oolong	medium	5	90	15s	5+
Sheng Puerh (Raw)	Pu'er	medium	5	90	10s	4+
Shu Puerh	Pu'er	medium	5	95	10s	5+
White Tea	White	low	4	80	—	—

Western-style cups use a lower leaf dose and one or two longer steeps; the steep counts above are for gongfu brewing (small vessel, many short infusions). See each tea type and brewing guide for the full method, or the tools to brew along.

Last updated 2026-06-15.