White tea question

[Ronin22]

Teadrinkers

I know white tea can be used for multiple infusions but how long is the max to wait? I've heard that the tea leaves should be used within a couple of hours from the original infusion. I'm wondering if I leave them in my gaiwan for 8-9 hours will they still be ok to use after I get home from work. Thanks

[ZhouJiaQuan]

They'll be fine, but the tea won't be very good.

[Ronin22]

Thanks Zhou, but do you mean as far as taste or benefits?

[Faruq]

What's an infusion, and what's a gaiwan?

[Indestructible]

If you don't want to let your tea leaves sit, brew a strong infusion, jar it and put it in the fridge. Later, mix it with water to your desired strength and warm or drink it iced. It may not be as good as fresh brewed but it's better than old, soggy leaves.

[ZhouJiaQuan]

Mainly I'm referring to the taste. I don't see a reason why any of the health benifits would suffer, but then again I'm not an expert on them, especially in white tea.

faruq,
Infusion = a steep
Gaiwan = that cup that jet li was poisned with in fearless/those chinese cups with lids.

[Faruq]

Thanks for the translation.

[Ronin22]

thanks guys

[monkeyfoot]

it tottally depends

if (by the sounds of it) you are just making a cup of tea for the sole purpose of just having a 'quick cuppa' then yea you can leave it till later, though it wont taste half as nice and a lot of the flavour will be gone.

If im having a quick drink then I will only have cheap tea. I will only ever touch some of my expensive oolongs etc if people are round or I know Im going to savour the moment.

craig