How do you brew your Oolongs at the office?

Finum permanent filter works for me – especially the large size.

I usually just throw a bit of leaf into the bottom of a cup, then add water. I drink off of it until I’m down to about 1/3 or 1/4, then add more water. Oolongs tend to be very forgiving, and I’ve had very few issues brewing them this way. The leaves have the entire cup to expand in, and I just don’t bother taking them out.
One tip doing it this way: don’t use as much leaf as you normally would if you could do short steeps with a brewing basket (another good option: finum has nice ones). This way, you don’t have to worry about leaves cramming into each other or the brew getting toooo strong at the bottom.

It’s not my favorite way to do oolongs, but at work, it works! I can’t really devote time to tasting carefully at work, so it’s what I’ve ended up doing. I’ll save gongfu sessions for home, and enjoy the comfort of the cup in front of me in the meantime.

I’ve had a bit of bad luck with paper filters, since (with the not-super-awesome water at work) they end up giving “paper” flavor to my brew. I wanted to steep tea, not paper. :(

I use my ForLife filter basket (this one: http://amzn.com/B001JP1KPO) which fits on nearly any mug and is large enough to allow the leaves to expand quite a bit.

I too find paper filters make my tea taste like paper, so I avoid them. Brewing baskets are awesome!

I use a large tea ball in my extra large mug with Keurig water. Ideal? No, but at least I do not have to drink the bulk black tea from the cafeteria! gag

Have a Zojirushi water heater sitting on my desk at work. Have a Gong Fu teapot in my drawers which comes out during weekdays. I don’t do the whole Gong Fu thing but I do use the teapot to get great cups of Oolong tea. I’ll. Probably get cited sooner or later and I’m crossing my fingers. My western teapot also sees the light of day when I feel like drinking some good Darjeeling Tea at work.

I have an Oggi Tea Infuser, which I absolutely love. They are inexpensive and really a great infuser mug, so long as you drink teas that won’t bitter as they steep. As a huge oolong fan, (oolong is the best pick me up, I feel!) I really wanted a way to brew oolong at work. The cup is great because it doesn’t have a strainer that you have to take out to be able to drink, the strainer is a little disk that sits in the top of the mug and can easily be removed for cleaning. The fact that the entire mug is available for the tea to expand is awesome for brewing oolongs in. Maybe give one of those a shot?

I have an infuser cup and if I am sharing with someone I have a pot with an infuser basket in it.