丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Li Mahua
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May Day long holiday, even if you don't go out, it is a beautiful thing to stay at home and make tea and drink.
Left one bubble of cinnamon, right bubble of daffodils, not happy?
However, when it comes to making tea, a friend around me asks: "8 grams of rock tea, can you only brew half of it each time?" ”
Hearing this, Twist Did not rush to give him an answer, and first asked why he did not finish the bubble at once.
According to a friend, he is the only one in the family who loves to drink rock tea, the amount of 8 grams is a bit much, and it feels a bit luxurious to brew alone, thinking of dividing it into two times and drinking slowly...
As it turns out, it is not recommended to make tea alone, and it is not recommended to halve the amount of tea.
After all, the best proportion of tea for brewing Wuyi rock tea is there.
8 grams a bubble, one bubble at a time, the amount is just right.
Halving the amount of tea may not be able to brew the ideal tea taste.
Moreover, after some time of personal testing, the brewing rock tea only put half a bag, and it always felt that nowhere was "strong".
In the process of making tea, I have to face these 4 tea brewing dilemmas.
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First, the tea aroma and tea taste become lighter.
Bubble rock tea only put half a bag of tea, and the weight loss period to eat only half full similar, drinking tea process is difficult to enjoy.
Last week, I drank a cup of last year's yellow roses, and when making tea, I deliberately tried to put only half of the tea.
After cutting open the bubble bag, I weighed it in my heart and poured half a bag of tea into the lid bowl.
The remaining dry tea continued to remain in the bubble bag, and a tail clip was found to seal.
A look at dry tea, from the volume alone visually, is obviously less.
Smell the dried tea closely, slightly caramel and floral, the aroma is not very obvious.
After a brief look at the dry tea, enter the formal brewing process.
Boil a pot of pure water, quickly fill the wall with water, close the lid, and directly out of the water.
In just a few seconds, a large amount of tea has been poured into the fair cup.
After confirming the draining of the tea soup, remove the lid while it is hot and smell the fragrance.
Cover the incense, but did not smell half of the old taste, green taste, miscellaneous smell, etc., this bubble last year's yellow rose did not return to green, but the floral fragrance is still light.
While it is hot, the tea aroma is neither rich nor exuberant, nor bright spots.
When you drink it, the tea soup is still refreshing in the mouth, slightly sweet, but the soup is not mellow, and the overall tea taste is light. Moreover, it is very important that in the falling water fragrance in the tea soup, there is also no obvious floral fragrance.
For the varieties of tea, the soup is not mellow enough, and even the original rich tea aroma has become flat.
In the face of such a cup of tea soup with a weakened aroma and taste, it is really not interesting to drink!
Instead of saving tea, a cup of tea is divided into two drinks, but it is better to concentrate on drinking it at once.
After all, the original design of Wuyi Rock Tea independent brewing bags is to facilitate tea casting.
One packet at a time, the tea taste performance will be perfect!
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Second, the remaining half a bag of tea is easy to run out of gas.
The preservation of rock tea is indispensable to tight sealing.
When receiving rock tea wrapped in bubble bags on weekdays, you still need to pay close attention to it, is the seal of the bubble bag tightly sealed, or is there a gap or two?
Not to mention, just casually clamp the mouth of the bag and put aside half a bag of rock tea.
The remaining half a bag of tea, if you can't drink it in time, put it to the end of the gas to change the taste, but waste good tea.
I have seen someone leave a message, to the effect that the current price of rock tea is too expensive, and I am reluctant to drink it directly at one time. So when making tea, only half a bag of tea is put...
Doing so reminds Twist of the story she saw in magazines many years ago.
Zhang San received two boxes of apples, one of which was fresh, plump, watery and fresh fruit. The other box is not pulled, the epidermis is wrinkled, and it looks like it is about to be broken.
At this time, Zhang San's proposition was to eat the apples that were about to be stored in the basket first, so as not to waste.
But his family objected, on the grounds that if you first eat the crumpled apple basket in the back and turn your head, another box of fresh, watery apples will also become wrinkled and not fresh, so why not eat the front box fresh?
The story is short, but the reason is very interesting, which involves the choice and trade-off of consumption concepts.
The same goes for drinking rock tea.
If you want to ask, can you brew only half of the rock tea in the bag?
The answer is definitely yes, their own tea is their own decision, how to brew it?
However, from the perspective of drinking tea flavor enjoyment, twist flower is not recommended for everyone to put only half a bag of tea.
Because this is not enough to taste tea.
Although from the point of view, this seems to be frugal, but to some extent it has fallen into a strange circle of never drinking the ideal tea taste!
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Third, you need to sit in the cup in advance, not resistant to bubbles.
Cover the bowl to brew rock tea, after the amount of tea is halved, and then refer to the usual "fast water" brewing method, you will face water and soil dissatisfaction.
Because the amount of tea is insufficient, if coupled with the short soaking time, the tea taste leaching is limited. The brewed tea soup will face the problem of light taste and insufficient drinking.
Therefore, when brewing tea, as the amount of tea is reduced, the tea brewing strategy also needs to change, and the cup sitting time should be advanced.
Even from the first punch, it is necessary to be about 5 seconds or 7 seconds late, and then pour out the tea soup. Brew the tea again, add time again, and suffocate appropriately.
The increase in steeping time can improve the lack of tea taste caused by the reduction of tea volume, and try to make up for the lack of tea taste and the situation that the taste is too light.
However, this "early sitting cup method" is not a cure for the complete release of tea flavor. This will cause the rock tea to become impatient to bubbles.
When brewing tea, the release of tea flavor is too concentrated in the first few punches, one drum, then decay, three exhaustion.
After brewing a few times, the taste of the tea will completely fade.
Originally, at least a dozen punches of tea taste could be brewed, and it is estimated that after halving the amount of tea, it is not easy to brew about 6 punches.
Drinking tea in this way, if it is only an ordinary ration, then forget it.
Brewing bullpen pit cinnamon, Tianxin rock cinnamon, Huiyuan old cong and other positive rock core good tea, insufficient tea, tea taste is not resistant to bubbles, it is a pity.
Such a good tea, since you have decided to bite your teeth and brew it, don't just make half a bag of tea.
Drink a one-time drink, cover the bowl with a standard 110 ml, put in a brew of 8 grams of rock tea, and enjoy the full tea flavor state even more!
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Fourth, the proportion of tea and water needs to be converted.
Brew tea to drink, no matter how many people drink tea, the optimal proportion of tea will not change.
It does not exist to say that when drinking tea alone, put less tea and only put half a packet. And there are many tea drinkers, just put more and directly fill the bowl with tea.
Less tea, light tea taste.
There is a lot of tea, and the tea flavor is strong.
No matter how you look at it, more or less, it is not a good thing.
When you are making tea, even if you can ensure that after unpacking, only half of the tea is put, and the remaining half of the tea will not run out of gas.
During the tea making process, in order to take care of the optimal proportion of tea, you have to find another tea set.
Brew rock tea, with a standard capacity of 110 ml of basic white porcelain lid bowl to brew rock tea, put 8 grams at a time, the proportion of tea is a perfect match.
If you drink tea yourself, think about saving some tea, and only put half a packet.
Well, the lid bowl has to be changed.
In this way, when the water injection line is close to the edge of the bowl, the proportion of tea is just right.
However, after replacing it with a small lid bowl with a capacity of 60-70 ml, it is inevitable that it will need to go through an adaptation period.
For tea lovers with wide palms and long fingers, it is too awkward to pick up such a small, mini lid bowl.
In order to take care of the usual tea brewing habits, brew rock tea, the convention of brewing one at a time is not easy to change to good.
Otherwise, pull the whole body.
After the amount of tea is changed, in the next tea brewing process, all aspects need to be adjusted!
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Drink rock tea, when drinking alone, you can drink a different mood.
Brewing tea alone and continuing to adhere to the practice of brewing one at a time is certainly not a waste.
Just make sure you have enough leisure time when you're alone. When drinking tea, you can slowly taste from the first flush to the last flush, until the tea taste is diluted, and what waste can be said?
Judging from the ritual sense of drinking tea, there are many steps that cannot be saved by making tea and drinking tea.
For example, drinking tea at home and not preparing bottled water, it is changed to tap water.
For example, drinking tea alone, feeling that it is too troublesome to use a lid bowl, it is replaced by a glass.
For example, when you feel that when you drink tea alone, the tea set is washed anyway, and you will no longer burn the pot warm cup...
The process of drinking tea is itself a tight link. Any change in the details will affect the final tea flavor.
Drinking rock tea, compared to "only put half a bag" type of provincial tea, it is more regrettable to drink the best tea taste.
In the small long holiday, in the process of making tea and drinking tea, there is no need to lose big because of small!
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