How to distinguish the quality of black tea
In the purchase of black tea, we only see the price and packaging of tea, but do not know how to distinguish the quality of black tea, teach you some simple tips to distinguish the quality of black tea, mainly pay attention to grasping, eye, nose, taste Wait for four aspects.
1. To grasp the "righteousness" of high-quality black tea, the first is to touch the weight, elasticity and thickness of the black tea strips by hand. The cords of high-quality black tea are relatively tight, and those who are heavy are better, and those who are rough and light are inferior. The main purpose of touching the tea by hand is to understand the dryness of the black tea dry tea. Pick up a tea bar, dry tea is usually a thorny, easy to break, with your fingers rub hard to become powder. If it is a damp tea, there is no such feature. However, when you touch the tea, do not grab it to a large extent so as to prevent the perspiration of your hands from infiltrating into the tea and causing the tea to become damp.
2. Observe the hand grab a handful of dry tea on a white paper or white porcelain plate. Hold the plate in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to observe whether the black tea dry tea is uniform in appearance and the color is the same. Some need to See if you take gold. The ropes are tightly knotted and clean, with no broken or shredded tea, and the color is black and oily (some teas are also worthless), which are excellent; the cords are loose, the color is messy, broken tea, powdered tea, and even With tea seed, tea fruit, old branches, old leaves, pests and leaves, weeds, branches, metal objects, corpses and other inclusions, such tea as inferior tea or inferior tea. In addition, the broth color and the bottom of the leaves can be distinguished by brewing. The soup of red tea of ​​high quality is bright red, clear and bright, and the leaf bottom is fully unfolded and evenly balanced, with a soft and tender texture. The soup color of inferior tea and inferior tea is dark and turbid, and the chewy color is red. The characteristics of leaflessness and dullness of color are not shown.
3. Nose smell is to use the person's sense of smell to identify whether the black tea has smoke coke, acid phlegm, flavor, musty, sun-taste and other odors. The dry tea with high-quality black tea has a sweet smell. After the brewing, there will be a pleasant aroma of sweet alcohol, and the inferior tea and the inferior tea will not be obvious or mixed with odor. In fact, in the processing of black tea, if the processing conditions (such as temperature, humidity, etc.) and processing techniques (such as withering, fermentation, etc.) are not properly controlled, or because black tea products are stored improperly, there will be some unpleasant odors. However, some unpleasant odours are less likely to be found when sniffing dry tea. At this time, it is necessary to identify through brewing and find that teas with sour, tangy and musty taste are not too strong. Try to improve quality later by baking.
4. Mouth taste When the dry tea's appearance, dryness, color, aroma, etc. are all in line with the purchase criteria, you can take some tea and put it into the mouth for chewing and distinguishing, according to the taste to further understand the pros and cons of quality. In addition, it can also be evaluated by opening soup. The taste of high-quality black tea is mainly dominated by sweet alcohol, and the black tea of ​​small varieties has the taste of mellow sweetness, and the black tea of ​​the time is mainly fresh, strong, alcohol, and cool. These characteristics are not obvious in inferior tea, and the inferior tea tastes thick and astringent, and even smelly.
Through these four steps to identify the quality of black tea, to a certain extent, help consumers to buy better tea. How to distinguish the quality of black tea? Since different types of black tea have different characteristics and colors, they cannot be generalized and specific products should be specifically analyzed.