# How to Brew White Tea (Silver Needle)

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## Recipe Product Mapping

- Required tea: [Teapigs Silver Tips White Tea, 15 Tea Bags 37.5g](https://teas.co.uk/product/teapigs-silver-tips-white-tea-15-tea-bags-37-5g/) | role: primary | reason: Primary tea mapped as required for this recipe. | confidence: high

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## Summary

How to brew Teapigs Silver Tips white tea: the coolest water of any tea, around 75C, and drunk plain.

## Description

White tea is the most delicate of all the teas from the tea plant, picked young as unopened silver buds and barely processed, and it wants the coolest water of any of them. Where green tea takes 80C, Silver Tips white tea is better at around 75C; even a little too hot and the delicate buds scald and the cup turns harsh.

Source: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the How to Brew White Tea (Silver Needle) recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/white-tea/how-to-brew-white-tea-silver-needle/The easiest way to hit that temperature without a thermometer is to boil the kettle and let it stand for three minutes before pouring. Brew it for three or four minutes and drink it as it is, with nothing added; milk, lemon or sugar would all bury the soft, faintly honeyed flavour that is the whole point of it.

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