Strong Tea

time, temperature, quantity, particle size, and quality are all options

>>9274002
Uh, no. I mean you can use more tea or steep longer than normal to make it stronger...but there's no magical wand wave that makes tea stronger other than time and volume.

What a fucking stupid question.

>>9274002
Well, "Strength" will come from either water to tea ratio, or length of infusion, though some tea cannot be oversteeped, most of it tastes like absolute shit if you steep it too long, (tannins and the like).

But, I suspect that you are using "tea" in the sense that they swept the dust off the factory floor and put it in the bag. higher quality tea is plenty strong in reasonable amounts and proper infusion times

>>9274002
Tea leaves are tea leaves. Black is what you're using, oolong might be slighter stronger, but its debatable.
Use more for your water and/or steep longer if you want more tea saturation.

I think 3 family size per half-gallon is okay for me. You're using 4/half gallon. You can steep a lot longer too, as luzianne doesn't get very bitter, from my experience. So, just off boiling water + tea bags. Give it a good stir to make sure they sink. Let it go 15-30 minutes. Can oversteep if it doesn't bother you. Park in fridge overnight. Take tea bags out in morning.

>>9274048
>some tea cannot be oversteeped,

lipton tastes like shrimp if you oversteep it. luzianne is pretty safe. I steep mine for 9 minutes with luzianne. but lipton taste like a seafood restaurant once you start getting up over 10 minutes.

>>9274125
I'm talking more along of lines of something like Pu-erh. It's really hard to fuckup by oversteeping

>>9274002
>bags

Buy loose leaf. Much better price to quality ratio.

If you like strong black tea I suggest Assam.

>>9274002
You can use a forced-water brewing system that pumps the boiling hot water through the tea. It will extract the umm whatever faster.

>>9274002
>tea bags
>consuming the grinds and rat shit swept off the factory floor

>>9274002
RIP in pace your kidneys

Get loose leaf, nerfherder..

>>9274002
What if you put leaves in a Vitamix? Don't do that with Chinese-grown tea. Daily, it will be a bit too much lead, because leaded gasoline wasn't outlawed there until 2003 so it's in the soil.