Choosing better quality tea and black tea has a long history in China. For thousands of years, black tea has been the "life drink" of the ethnic minorities in northwest China. There is a local saying that "it is better not to drink tea for a day than not to eat for three days". Known as "slimming tea" in Japan and "beauty tea" in South Korea, it is a "healthy drink" for China people in modern times and is loved by people all over the world.
Anhua black tea with good quality is compact, round and straight in appearance, tender in leaves and deep in color. The fragrance is mellow, with pine smoke fragrance, orange soup color and yellow brown leaves.
Xin 'anhua black tea is rich in flavor, full of domineering, and sweet after astringency; The aged Anhua black tea is mellow, and the soup color is bright and mellow. The same pot of tea is soaked for dozens of times, and the soup color remains unchanged.
Choose the right tea-making utensils. Nowadays, tea sets usually refer to teapots, teacups, tea bowls, small handles and other tea drinking utensils.
In addition to the above-mentioned commonly used tea-making appliances, there are also some matching tea sets, such as tea boats for putting teapots; A tea towel soaked in water; Tea knife for cutting tea; Tea trays and saucers for holding teacups.
Anhua black tea is generally brewed with purple sand utensils and Jingdezhen porcelain. If not, you can use other containers instead.
Pay attention to the quality of water. The ancients chose water for making tea, paying attention to liveliness, sweetness, clearness and lightness. Generally, tea is made with natural water, such as mountain spring water, rivers and lakes, well water, rain water and snow water. Tap water is purified natural water. Chlorine in tap water has a strong smell. You can store the water in a pot for 24 hours, and then boil it with fire to make tea. Now the pure water sold in the market does not contain any impurities, and makes the pH value of water neutral. Making tea with this water is not only clear and transparent, but also crystal clear, pure in aroma and taste, pure and refreshing.
Pay attention to the amount of tea. The amount of tea used each time mainly depends on the type of tea and the size of the tea set. Secondly, it is also closely related to consumers' drinking habits and age levels.
When drinking Anhua black tea, the amount of tea per cup is 5- 10g. If it is brewed with a teapot, the proportion should be properly controlled according to the capacity of the teapot, and the input is half or more than half of the teapot. Wash the tea leaves with hot water first to remove the dust and air conditioning of the tea leaves, so that the boiled tea will taste sweet.
Pay attention to the water temperature of brewing black tea to make tea and boil water, and it is advisable to just boil it with foam. Using this water to make tea, the fragrance of tea soup is good. Anhua black tea is brewed with boiling water of 100 degree, because the amount of tea used each time is large and the tea leaves are coarse and old. Sometimes in order to maintain and improve the water temperature, it is necessary to heat the tea set with boiling water before brewing, and pour the boiling water out of the pot after brewing. The pressed tea consumed by ethnic minorities requires higher water temperature, while brick tea is crushed and boiled. Because the aromatic substances in black tea can only volatilize when the water temperature is high, if the water temperature of tea is not "in place", it is impossible to make a cup of fragrant and delicious black tea.
Pay attention to the length of brewing time. The brewing time is based on the concentration of tea soup suitable for the taste of the drinker. Generally speaking, the brewing time is short, generally about 2 minutes, and the number of times of brewing black tea can reach 5-7 times. With the increase of brewing times, the brewing time should be appropriately extended. When brewing, it is best to pour a small amount of boiling water first, immerse the tea leaves, and then pour them to 70% to 80%, so that they can be drunk while hot. When you finish drinking about one-third of the tea soup in the cup, add boiling water for the second time, and brew it for the third time when you continue to drink one-third of the tea soup, so that the concentration of the tea soup before and after can be more uniform. Because Anhua black tea is mostly drunk in a small teapot, it takes a lot of tea and a short brewing time. The first bubble will be poured out within 1 min, and the brewing time will gradually increase from the second bubble to 15-30 seconds, so that the concentration of tea soup before and after is relatively uniform.
Quality characteristics of tea set In terms of color, fragrance, taste and shape, Anhua black tea should be drunk while it is hot. Generally, when the temperature of tea soup is around 50℃, such soup temperature is the best time to taste. It can also make full use of the effective components in tea, give full play to the efficacy of tea and improve the value of drinking tea.
If a cup of black tea is not drunk in time after brewing, the aroma of tea will be lost for a long time, and the soup color and taste of tea will lose its flavor as time goes on. Therefore, Anhua black tea is best brewed and drunk now.
When to drink black tea, it is best to drink black tea at night to warm the stomach and help digestion. Drinking tea at about 8: 30 in the evening is beneficial to the repair and recovery of human immune system, cell regeneration and health. However, many people think that drinking tea at night will affect sleep, so you can drink black tea, because black tea is moist and pure, even if you drink it at night, it will not affect sleep quality. After three meals, the body will accumulate some fatty things in the digestive system. Drinking black tea after meals helps to decompose accumulated fat, which warms the stomach and helps digestion. It is more authentic to choose Hunan Anhua black tea for drinking black tea.