TeaHQ
A reference for tea, built so that what it does not know is as visible as what it does. Find a tea by how it tastes, compare any two, and get brewing parameters transcribed from the tea's own record rather than from a rule of thumb.
Find a tea
Filter 261 teas by flavour, aroma, mouthfeel, intensity and five other facets. Every result explains why it matched, and every facet is recorded for every tea — so nothing is silently left out of a search.
Compare two teas
Any pair, across seven dimensions, with no verdict and no winner. 335 comparisons are written out in full, including the pairs people most often confuse.
Brew it properly
Temperature, leaf weight for your vessel, ratio and the full infusion schedule. Where parameters have not been authored for a style, the tool says so instead of scaling them from another.
Follow a journey
41 ordered paths through the catalogue. Each step is explained by a relationship somebody wrote down about those two specific teas — never generated from shared tags.
Start with a category
Six categories, all from the same plant. What separates them is a decision made in the hours after picking rather than where they grew.
- Black tea · 80
- Yellow tea · 8
- Green tea · 65
- Dark tea and pu-erh · 33
- Oolong · 58
- White tea · 17
What TeaHQ covers
Tea — the leaf of Camellia sinensis, in its six categories. 261 named teas with origin, production, sensory profile and brewing parameters.
Prepared drinks — masala chai, bubble tea and their relatives. These are recipes rather than origins, so they are modelled separately: a recipe has components, not a place.
Botanicals — chamomile, rooibos, peppermint and 147 others. Not tea, and catalogued for what they are, where they came from and what people do with them. Browse them.
What those pages do not carry is safety information — tolerability, interactions, pregnancy. That is a claim about bodies rather than about plants, it needs a different kind of evidence, and it stays unpublished behind a review that has not been signed.
How to read what is missing
There are no health pages here, no benefit claims, and no filter anywhere that asks what you want tea for. That is not an oversight and not a gap waiting to be filled — there is no field in the model that records what a tea does to a person, and the records that would support one are deliberately unpublished.
Caffeine figures are absent for most teas for a related reason: a number without its basis is decoration, and we will not infer one from a tea’s category.
Also here
- 133 guides — how processing works, why tea tastes bitter, how to buy and store it.
- A glossary of 29 terms — several included because the common definition is wrong rather than because the word is obscure.
- Every tea, grouped by family.
- All three tools, each with its limits stated on its own page.
- Sources and evidence — what counts as a source here and how far each one was checked.
TeaHQ is in private development and is not publicly indexed. The catalogue holds 261 teas and 1846 relationships between records, all validated on every build — and coverage is uneven in places that are documented rather than smoothed over.