Blog — green tea
Why tea shows different faces in sunny and rainy days? The weather really has an effect on the tea!
With the fresh enthusiasm, every day I pry out a piece of tea to brew, with friends we sit around a table and savor it. A day after half a month, it was raining outside. People in the house listen to the rain through the window, cook tea with a small fire, wait for the new boiling tea, and then pick up the cup to sip, it is really a kind of happiness in the world! Wait, it seems the taste isn’t right? We can't believe own tongue and brew another cup of tea, sip again: really not right. How...
"Bitterness and astringency", it is the nature of tea after all, or the failure of brewing?
When it comes to tea with sweet and mellow style, such taste can cater to human's natural preference for sweetness and this tea is always easy to get consistent approval or praise, "so sweet, good taste". But when our taste bud feel the bitter and astringent taste in tea, someone can't help frowning and doubt, "well? Is the tea bad? Or is it a fail brewing?" Such "bitterness", which does not bring immediate pleasure, can easily be attributed to the defect or imperfection of tea, especially in the case of limited cognition. Why there is bitterness in tea? First, look...
Why does everyone love Zisha pot? What mystery does Zisha pot have when using it to make tea?
In order to brew out the most charming flavor, people often say that different tea should be matched with different tea pot because of the different characteristics, which is also the reason why people who love tea all love Zisha pot. Why does Zisha pot suit to make tea so much? What features does it have after all to make it sit on the throne of tea pots all of a sudden? Zisha pot's four advantages we have to say Air permeability of Zisha teapot Purple sand(Zisha) has a very special structure -- double stomatal structure. This double stomatal structure...
When making tea, how many grams of tea leaves should be right ?
When we first start making tea, we always have a problem: how many grams of this tea should be just right? In this case, we usually take the tea master's suggestion as the standard. For example, there is a popular and easy rule to remember "three, four, seven, eight". With normal size Gaiwan and about 110 ml water for brewing, the amount of tea is 3 grams for green tea, 4 grams for black tea, 7 to 8 grams for all oolong tea such as rock tea, and 8 grams for black tea such as ripe tea. The suggestion of...
“Shang Tou Fa” , “Xia Tou Fa” and “Zhong Tou Fa”, Do you understand them? And Which teas are suitable for them?
In the daily introduction of green tea, you always can see such warm tips:
"Shang Tou Fa is recommended, lower water temperature, 85 ℃ is advisable, you can better experience the fresh sweet taste."
But often you just remember the tips at that moment, and get confused when brewing tea.
“Shang Tou Fa” or “Xia Tou Fa”?
Don’t worry, after reading this article and understand the reasons, you won’t hesitate when brewing green tea.
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