tie guan yin tea Q&As
1.Why does the tie guan yin tea taste bitter occasionally?
Answer: a. the tea buds haven’t been cleared totally
b. tea leaves were too young when they were picked.
2. Why does the tieguanyin tea taste with green-flavor occasionally?
Answer: tea leaves haven’t been green-eliminated fully in processing.
3.Why does tieguanyin tea taste astrictive occasionally?
Answer: in the tea processing, water in tea peduncles hadn’t been eliminated totally (volume of unoxidized tea polyphenol is over high).
4.What it is about aftertaste?
Answer: aftertaste refers to the mellow degree of tea. High grade tieguanyin tea gives sweet and rich aftertaste which is decided by raw material, processing technique and climate.
5.Why does tieguanyin tea taste sour?
Answer: a. fully baked tea leaves taste a bit sour
b. superior tieguanyin tea leaves have been light baked and green-eliminated taste a bit sour.
6. Why do tieguanyin leaves smell aromatic when drinking tea?
Answer: the main element that forms aroma of tieguanyin leaves is amino acid. Nice tieguanyin tea leaves contain high volume of amino acid so the aroma is naturally rich.
7.Why are the tea dregs green or black or yellow and rough?
Answer: a. green: tea dregs of leaves that had been green-eliminated and fully baked are green;
b. black: water is on the high side in leaves during the part of water-removing processing;
c. yellow: it processes slowly in light-baked part or primary processing;
d. rough: tea leaves were old when they were picked.
e. tea dregs of leaves picked from new trees are normally green.
8. What it is the tieguanyin tea water is red or green or oil-colored?
Answer: a. red: in tea processing, tea leaves hadn’t been green-eliminated so the red leaves hadn’t been cleared while the rough processing kept much long;
b. green: tea leaves made by confrontational method (technique between traditional tieguanyin tea and green tea) are normally green;
c. oil-color: pure color that only tieguanyin tea has (leaves made by traditional method).
9. What’s the difference between tieguanyin tea separately costs rmb 300yuan and 500 yuan?
Answer: different levels of tie guan yin tea are mainly different in tea dregs, leaf shapes, color, taste and aroma. Nice tieguanyin tea tastes good so costs much.
10. Why are the dry leaves in uneven colors of black, green and red?
Answer: the picked leaves are one bud with two or three leaves, different in ripening degree. In the same processing, the tea leaves were in different ferment degrees.
11. How long is the normal time of ferment?
Answer: ferment time is exact the primary processing time that is general 2 to 4 hours.
12. How to differentiate alpine tea and low mountain tea? What features do they have separately?
Answer: a. taking the elevation of 600 metres as the boundary, tea growing high above that is alpine tea while that growing below is low mountain tea;
b. it’s difficult to differentiate alpine tea and low mountain tea by appearance. The difference shows when tieguanyin tea is brewed: alpine tea is with heavy and lasting aroma while tea dregs are plump and thick; low mountain tea is with ethereal aroma with light aftertaste and thin tea dregs.
13. Why does tieguanyin tea taste soft and sometimes taste hard?
Answer: a. it depends on tenderness of tea leaves. Old tea leaves give harder taste than tender ones;
b. tea in different seasons. Spring tea water tastes soft, summer and heat tea tastes hard while autumn tea between spring tea and summer tea;
c. it also depends on the correctness of spinning processing.
14. What is “green leaf with red edge”?
It’s the difference between traditional and confrontational processing crafts. Tea leaves made by traditional tie guan yin processing method or Taiwan Oolong tea processing method are normally green with red edges while leaves made by confrontational method are not.
Why are some tieguanyin tea leaves with peduncles? Is that good or bad?
Primary tea is with more peduncles, it’ll turn into defecated tea through remachining by eliminating peduncles. Tea with peduncles smells more fragrant but not easy to store while defecated tea doesn’t smell as fragrant as that with peduncles but is easy to brew and store.
Which one is better of the tieguanyin spring tea and autumn tea?
Spring tea is good at tea water while autumn tea is perfect in aroma. As a whole, tieguanyin autumn tea is better in overall quality.
How to select nice tieguanyin tea?
Look when it’s dry: better in emerald color and even, heavy shapes; judge when it’s wet: fragrant and lasting aroma, smooth and YIN-flavored in taste, oil-colored and clear in tea water, plump, even and soft in tea dregs.
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