丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Romantic feelings, everyone has.
The first time I felt romantic, perhaps from the lyrics, "The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you." ”
Since the song began to be sung that year, I think "romantic" is a good word.
I thought of Old Sue again.
In the fourth year of being relegated to Huangzhou, one night he was trying to go to bed, and when he saw the moonlight sprinkling into the room, he was happy to get up.
Thinking that there was no one who could play together, he went to The Chengtian Temple to look for Zhang Huaimin.
It just so happened that Zhang Huaimin did not sleep, and the two of them walked together in the courtyard... So there is a good story of "Ji Chengtian Temple Night Tour".
When you think of a person, you go happily, or see or not see, all according to your own will.
If there is really a "original heart" in the world, then this romantic feeling of the ancient literati and inkers can also be regarded as a kind of it.
Slowly growing old with you is romantic, and the two of you walking together is also a night tour, a dull day, there are too many, too many romantic feelings.
In fact, tea is also very romantic.
I make tea, she drinks tea, sits relatively at the tea table, and talks about a thing silently, either to scare people or to answer questions for tea friends.
Isn't that a romance?
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Making tea and drinking tea is a small romance in life.
However, if you find that when drinking tea, the soup taste is extremely bitter, and even there are many broken teas in the cup, and if you are not careful, you will drink it in your mouth.
Will it still feel romantic in this way?
Presumably, in my heart, I will definitely be greatly reduced.
In white tea, cake tea is a special existence, it is not as bulky as loose tea, it looks round and well-behaved.
After the white tea has been pressed, not only the appearance has changed, but the flavor has also been subtly transformed.
Compared with loose white tea, white tea cake is more mature, majestic, rich, and more suitable for newcomers to drink.
However, when brewing, it will encounter various problems, resulting in poor taste.
How to make white tea cakes more delicious? This is a question worth exploring.
Usually, what we brew has always been the white tea cake of Master S's family, or the white tea cake produced by Master Fang's faction.
These white tea cakes have a characteristic, that is, the process is good, the pressure is tight and proper, and it is not too tight.
Therefore, it is also very labor-saving when prying cakes.
The tea knife is inserted deeply from the side, and then gently pried upwards, and a thin flake of tea cake is obtained.
However, because of the difference in the pressing technology, the white tea cakes on the market are loose and tight.
When it comes to the prying process, the degree of difficulty also varies.
The tea cake that is loose and properly pried up is simple, convenient and easy to use, especially when skilled, it takes less than 1 minute to complete it in one go.
On the contrary, it is more difficult to encounter too tight white tea cakes.
First, it requires skill, and second, it is recommended to use sharper tea needles to pry out enough white tea cakes to be brewed once.
However, when prying, because it is dry and tight, it is inevitable that a large number of broken leaves will appear.
These special crushed tea powders, when brewed, will flow into the gongdao cup together with the tea soup, and continuously release the endoplasm.
It also contains a large number of tea polyphenols and caffeine substances, which not only affect the taste, but also can cause a burden on the body.
Therefore, when buying white tea cakes, we should pay special attention, and the loose and proper tea cakes are more worth starting.
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Whether the pressure is loose or tight, it is inevitable that broken leaves will appear when prying tea.
No way, who makes qualified white tea very dry?
In the face of these broken teas, we can choose one, and the special broken ends will be put aside first and collected uniformly.
They are not suitable for brewing with a lidded bowl because it will affect the taste.
The solution is to buy some tea bags online and make your own portable tea bags.
Take the right amount of tea leaves, not too much, otherwise the taste is easy to be too strong and too bitter.
Take it to the office, brew it in a glass, and if it is a crush of old white tea, it can also be used to boil tea to drink.
And those teas that are not too broken, but are still complete, can still be brewed with a lid bowl.
The first method, with the help of a tea filter.
If you want to make a white tea cake with crushed tea delicious, you need to use a tool that is often overlooked - tea filter.
Tea filter, as the name suggests, plays the role of filtering tea leaves.
Before making tea, put the tea strainer on the fair cup in advance and prepare it.
When the tea soup is poured into the fair cup, it can assume the responsibility of blocking and preventing the crushed tea from being poured into the fair cup along with the tea soup.
The brewed tea soup is still crystal clear and the soup is moist.
In addition, if this cup of tea soup cannot be drunk in time, it will not let the broken tea soak in it for a long time, and after a long time, too many bitter substances will be released and become unpleasant.
Now with the help of tea filtering, this problem can be solved very well.
But the words are also said, although the tea filter is convenient, it is actually a double-edged sword.
Because the tea filter will not only block the crushed tea, but also isolate a part of the pekoe, thus affecting the freshness in the soup.
Therefore, when we brew loose tea, or when the white tea cake with high integrity, we generally do not use tea filters.
If you have higher requirements for the taste of tea customers, you can choose the second way.
The second method is to practice making tea more.
We will find that some old tea customers do not use tea filters when they face broken tea.
Because they will adjust the details of brewing reasonably according to different situations.
For example, if there are more broken tea in the lid bowl, then the opening is controlled to be smaller, which can prevent too much broken tea from flowing out while not affecting the speed of the soup.
And those who take the opportunity to escape a small amount of broken tea, will not affect the taste of the tea soup too much, wait until the broken tea sinks to the bottom, and then divide the soup.
Of course, if you want to achieve this realm, you can practice it in not ten days and half a month, and you need to be skilled.
It can be seen that it is difficult to achieve 100% perfection at the same time for convenient and flavor-seeking.
You can only compromise and seek the most appropriate and suitable way for you.
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Finally, a question that many tea lovers are curious about: does the white tea cake need to be smouldered?
The answer is, no.
Although the cake tea is pressed, it looks like it is layered, and the substances are "locked" in the tea leaves.
But in fact, high-quality white tea cakes, fast out of the water is better.
When drinking the first tea soup, perhaps some friends will feel that the taste is too light, in fact, this is the white tea cake secretly storing power.
Don't want to give up the first tea soup, just like eating Western food to try appetizers before eating, it is best to accompany a cup of pre-dinner wine.
The taste buds are stimulated in order to enjoy the subsequent delicious dishes in a more sensitive state.
If it is greasy fat meat at the beginning, perhaps the stomach and intestines have long been so tired that they can't eat anything.
The same is true for drinking tea, if you start with a strong and bitter tea soup, the taste buds are covered with bitterness, and it is difficult to experience the sweet and fresh soup.
Therefore, drinking tea pays attention to step by step, and brewing tea pays attention to homeopathy.
Treat good tea, all quickly out of the water, are boiling water bubbles, no sitting cup smouldering, and strive to experience the original taste of it.
If the soup time is extended, the unnecessary substances that are brewed out are leached out in large quantities, thus affecting the flavor of the tea soup and becoming bitter.
It will only make people doubt the white tea in front of them, what about the freshness of the good? What about the good fragrant sweet work?
As everyone knows, it is their own brewing that has gone wrong and smouldered white tea.
《5》
In the new year, I am more convinced.
Move forward every day.
Whether it is an outward extension or an inward exploration.
Although I have written so many articles, I still can't completely solve all the problems of tea friends.
In the hearts of many people, there is a voice that cannot be hidden, but is always ignored.
This sound can only be heard by people who really pay attention to tea.
So, every day in this way of progress, we re-understand ourselves and change ourselves.
The road is a long way off, but we will continue to do so.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.