If you ask me what the best drink cures the cold of winter, I'd say tea.
Three or five friends sat around the tumbling, steaming kettle, chatting hotly, while enjoying the tea blending in the winter to release a wisp of tea fragrance.
Pu'er tea is a characteristic tea in China, with rich taste and unique flavor, which has won the favor of a large number of tea friends.
Pu'er tea producing area
As a specialty tea in Yunnan, it is mainly produced in Lincang, Baoshan, Pu'er and Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, and is made of Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-dried green hair tea.
According to the different processes of the process is divided into raw tea, cooked tea two kinds, raw tea is dark green and oily, the cord is fat, the cooked tea is reddish brown, the cord is full, the golden bud is revealed; according to the different forms, it is divided into loose tea and tightly pressed tea.
Among them, Pu'er raw tea is loved by many people, not only has good health care effects, but also is a good choice for health care. Drinking raw tea can play a role in clearing heat and quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure and lipids, and preventing caries.
How is Pu'er raw and cooked tea defined?
Pu'er raw tea is made from Yunnan large-leaf sun-dried green hair tea, which is naturally fermented during storage.
Pu'er ripe tea is made by taking qingmao tea as raw material, fermenting under the method of artificial warming and humidification after fermentation and drying of Wodui.
How to distinguish raw and cooked Pu'er tea?
There are many ways to distinguish raw and cooked Pu'er tea, generally from the appearance, the color of raw Pu'er with a life of less than 10 years is dark green, and the color of cooked Pu'er is dark brown;
The second is to smell, raw Pu'er smells a faint fragrance, and cooked Pu'er smells of old fragrance, and finally soup color, raw Pu'er soup color is orange, cooked Pu'er is brownish red, dark maroon.
The shape of Pu-erh tea
Pu'er tea does not necessarily have to be cake-shaped, there are two major categories of Pu'er loose tea and Pu'er tight tea.
Pu'er tea is mostly "one cake and one cake", but there are also loose tea, tuo tea, brick tea and so on.
In fact, in the production of Pu'er tea, it is divided into two categories: Pu'er loose tea and Pu'er tight tea. Pu'er loose tea, the traditional categories are hairy tip, coarse leaves, has now developed into Pu'er green tea, Pu'er green tea, Pu'er black tea, Pu'er yellow tea, Pu'er white tea 6 categories.
How to store Pu-erh tea?
If you store tightly pressed tea, do not unpack, if it is loose tea, it is recommended to store in a purple sand jar, followed by the environment to be clean and hygienic, no miscellaneous taste, stable temperature and humidity, do not see the light. Simply put, it is "dry and ventilated without odor".
How long does Pu'er raw tea last to taste?
Pu'er tea is divided into raw tea and cooked tea, raw tea taste fierce, the taste is mostly bitter back to sweet, not often drunk people generally do not get used to drinking, so drink raw Pu must wake up tea. After buying it, it should be properly preserved, let it age, and then taste it after a few years of becoming smooth and mellow.
Does drinking Pu-erh tea affect sleep?
Drinking Pu'er tea has the effect of improving sleep, but different drinking methods can produce different effects. Pu-erh tea is best drunk an hour before going to bed, and when drinking Pu-erh tea before going to bed, be sure to remember to use the method of brewing instead of soaking. Brewing calms the nerves and allows people to fall asleep better, while soaking is the opposite.
How is Pu'er tea graded, and what is the difference between high and low grades?
Pu'er tea is divided into high, medium and low grades. High-grade loose tea is divided into: court, ceremonial tea, special grade, level one to five is the middle grade, and six to ten grades are low grade loose tea. Pu'er tea crushing is divided into high-grade, mid-range and low-grade tea crushed. When grading, there are more buds of high grade and more stems of low grade.
Isn't the higher the level, the better? No, the higher the level, the more it only means that the tea is very tender, and it has little to do with the quality.
What is a dry warehouse and a wet warehouse Pu'er, and what is the difference?
Pu'er tea is stored in a warehouse with a relative humidity of less than 80%, allowing it to slowly and naturally age, transforming into "chen xiang" quality, which is customary to call "dry warehouse Pu'er tea".
"Wet warehouse Pu'er tea" is to put Pu'er tea into a wet warehouse with a relative humidity of more than 80%, so that it can be transformed quickly, but mildew will occur in the process of transformation, called "wet warehouse Pu'er". Dry warehouse aging, in order to be more aged and fragrant, there are bad merchants with wet warehouse tea impersonated aged dry warehouse tea.
What is the difference between Pu'er new tea and old tea?
New tea: refers to tea that is 1-5 years after being made into wool.
Aged tea: Tea that has more than five years of dry storage time.
Appearance: It is difficult to see the difference between new tea and old tea, almost the same.
Taste: The biggest difference between new tea and old tea is the Wodui flavor, just made of new tea, after the Wodui this process will have a very strong Wodui fishy taste, the taste is not very good, similar to the seafood taste, after aging for two or three years, the Wodui flavor will gradually dissipate, turn into a unique fresh and sweet aroma of cooked tea.
Knowledge Development: A List of Pu'er Terms
Look at the shape: clear, uniform, firm, fat.
Look at the soup color: clear, bright, deep, light, bright, turbid, sediment.
Smell aroma: high fragrance, pure, flat, blunt, green, high fire, old.
Taste: sweet, thick, mellow, rich, mellow, mellow, mellow, peaceful, thin, astringent, green, bitter, cooked.
Look at the bottom of the leaf: hypertrophic, unfolding, bright, dark, scorched, domineering.
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