The root of waking up tea is nothing more than to remove miscellaneous tastes and barn flavors, so that tea leaves wake up from aging and return to their original true faces.
Pu'er tea, especially tea for more than 3 years, because of long-term storage, the humidity in the air is unstable, resulting in Pu'er tea storage process will absorb the smell in the storage environment, resulting in tea aroma changes, so it is necessary to wake up tea.
The Pu'er tea ripe tea due to fermentation, the naturally generated heap taste will affect the taste, after waking up the tea, the heap taste becomes lighter, the taste is better.
There are two ways to wake up tea: one is "dry wake-up", which refers to the awakening before brewing; the other is "wet wake-up", that is, wake-up during brewing.
When dry and awake, first separate the tea leaves and place them in a cool and ventilated place, so that the leaves can breathe naturally and dissipate the miscellaneous smells in the tea leaves.
If it is a tea cake, it is necessary to dissolve the tea, and when dissolving the tea, try to maintain the integrity of the leaves and follow the law of the leaves to solve. It is not possible to pry it at will, so that the tea leaves are finely crushed.
Wet awakening, on the basis of dry awakening, water and temperature to help the leaves stretch, so that the tea leaves fully awakened. It is conducive to releasing the best quality of tea leaves during formal brewing, and washing away the floating dust attached to the tea leaves in all aspects.
We all know the benefits of waking tea, so what is the taste of not waking up tea to drink?
The slight bitterness and astringency of the unenclamed tea will become obvious, and the smoke and astringency will be heavy. The tea soup has obvious barn taste and stale taste or other miscellaneous tastes, and the brightness and fullness are reduced, which greatly affects the taste and taste.
The light tea that is not awake appears to have a weak aroma, a thinner taste level, and a lighter tea atmosphere, and it is difficult to drink the original tea properties of a tea. Heavy will appear too dry between the throat after drinking tea, difficulty swallowing, throat tightening and even itching, pain and other feelings, which is what we usually call "lock throat".