About Tea Geeks
Tea Geeks treats tea as structured data. Every tea in the catalogue has the same fields, so you can filter on any of them and compare like with like.
What is in it
345 teas from 125 regions, each described by nine core taste dimensions, eighteen flavour families, caffeine, brewing parameters for western, gongfu and cold methods, and notes on when and how to drink it. There are also 137 defined flavour words and 16 guides.
How to read the numbers
Taste scores run from 0 to 5 and describe a typical example of the tea, not a particular batch. Caffeine is a typical estimate for a 240 ml cup, with a low and high range. Brewing numbers are starting points. Leaf grade, water and your own palate will move them, and the catalogue figures are estimates rather than measurements.
The recommender
Mark teas as liked, disliked or curious, or set the sliders for the tastes you want. The explorer scores every tea against that profile and explains each suggestion in a line. It also slips in one tea outside your usual pattern. The whole calculation happens in your browser.