Charts for any wall
Some sheets are for a pupil or for a player. These are not. They are the ones a household reaches for regardless of what anyone is studying: a brew ratio, a size conversion, a status code, the phase of the Moon.
It is the widest set in the catalogue and the least uniform, and that is deliberate. What the sheets share is a kind of question rather than a subject — something you half know, need exactly, and would rather not unlock a phone to find.
They end up in kitchens, hallways and home offices: wherever the question tends to get asked out loud.
POST-FERMENTED TEAS
six teas changed by microbes rather than oxygen
ESPRESSO
the nine requirements of a certified Italian espresso, with their tolerances
MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
MINIMUM MATURATION
how long each spirit must sit in the barrel before it may bear its name — fifteen legal minimums on one scale
SPIRIT HOMELANDS
where the law lets Scotch, bourbon, cognac and tequila be made — seven spirits, three scales of place: a country, a part of one, a drawn zone
SPIRIT RAW MATERIALS
what the law lets whisky, rum, brandy and tequila be distilled from — ten spirits, seven raw materials, two regulations
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings