Tap water makes green tea bronze colored? What minerals would cause this?

what the shit? wrote:

The same exact temperature and same steep time.

Bottled water looks light yellow/green. tap water looks bronze/orange.

Are there some funky minerals in my tap water causing this?

dumb question possibly: same tea??

Different "Green" teas result in many different colors (pale yellow, to dark green, to brown depending on the type of green tea).

Mud

just drink it. you need your vitamins and minerals somehow

I can't imagine that the dried organics of a tea leaf would mix with minerals in the water to cause something like that.

Is this a new tea? Or a new water source?

Or is this just a troll thread....

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Mr Tea wrote:

dumb question possibly: same tea??

Same exact box of packaged tea bags.

Same exact water volume.

Same exact temperature (170 degrees).

Same exact steep time (3 minutes).

Tried it back and forth with the same result every time. Tap water = orange. Bottled water = light green.

Tap water looks clear to me.

Iron, maybe. I have high iron in my water, and it turns the water funky colors when mixed with certain other things.

And my guess is that it's not that the minerals are turning the green tea a different color, it's that the minerals (or what ever the hell is in my tap water) is speeding up the steeping process.

I've already tried to Google this with no results. NOT A DAMN THING. There may also be a strong possibility that I am going insane here.

what the shit? wrote:

And my guess is that it's not that the minerals are turning the green tea a different color, it's that the minerals (or what ever the hell is in my tap water) is speeding up the steeping process.

That's what I thought too. 3 minutes is a long steep time. But hard water can really mess up the flavor of coffee/tea too so who know's what's really going on.

Chlorine.

Some sort of Mercury-Lead Sulfate. Drink it if that sounds appealing to you.

The polyphenols are being oxidized, similar to black tea.