Caffeine reduction in tea

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cbrace
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Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:09 pm

You might look for certain seasonal varieties. I've read the tea with the highest caffeine content is late spring and summer harvests. Autumn tea is said to have naturally less caffeine, but certainly not none. I've had some autumn Darjeelings that are wonderful. There are some winter harvest teas, which might have even less caffeine than autumn teas. See for example Taiwan Sourcing,
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Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:02 pm

Slurp wrote:
Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:48 am
Youzi wrote:
Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:04 am
Webley wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:39 pm
Is it possible to maybe reduce the amount of caffeine in tea by doing pre rinses before brewing. I have a caffeine sensitivity and would be interested if anyone had tried this.
You can just use less leaves. Then the caffein will be instantly less too.
So will the flavour.
Ofc use less water too and longer steeps more temp. Gong fu. Get what you want, however you can. :D
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Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:55 pm

So do you think that brewing tea gong fu style has more or less caffeine than western style? I know leaf amount has a profound effect on it.
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Webley wrote:
Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:55 pm
So do you think that brewing tea gong fu style has more or less caffeine than western style? I know leaf amount has a profound effect on it.
If Western has more leaves, then Western if gong fu has more leaves, then gong fu.
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Webley wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:39 pm
Is it possible to maybe reduce the amount of caffeine in tea by doing pre rinses before brewing. I have a caffeine sensitivity and would be interested if anyone had tried this.
@Webley - Which type of tea?

I ask because some cultivars and terroirs are more stimulating than others, and I believe not all of the stimulating factors are from caffeine. Avoiding these will help a great deal.

Lastly, I have wanted to try to remove caffeine from tea using liquified carbon dioxide but have too many projects to take on another.
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