Why “tee” and not “tea”?

Yes, we know how tea is spelled in English. The double e is on purpose.

Exact + Tee

In German — and in Dutch, and close cousins like Danish te — the word for tea is Tee. Put it after exact and you get Exactee: the exact tea. It is also how many tea drinkers in Berlin, where this site was born, would write it without thinking. (This site is also available auf Deutsch.)

Two e’s, two decimals

We like the double e as a small visual joke about precision. Exact temperatures, exact grams, exact seconds. One e would have been fine; two feels measured.

A little linguistics

Almost every language’s word for tea comes from one of two Chinese pronunciations: te, from the Min dialects around the port of Xiamen, travelled by sea with Dutch traders and became tea, Tee, thé and té; cha, from Mandarin and Cantonese, travelled overland and became chai, çay and chá. “Tee” sits right on the sea route.

The honest history of this domain

exactee.com is an old domain with a past. Over the years it has belonged to a small golf company that sold a tee-height tool, then briefly to a T-shirt shop, and later it was used by unrelated spam sites before it expired. We registered it fresh in 2026 and have nothing to do with any of its previous owners. If you landed here looking for golf tees, T-shirts or anything else that used to live at this address — sorry, it’s all tea now.

What we do

Exactee publishes brewing guides and a small calculator. No accounts, no tracking cookies, no paywall. Start with the brew guides.