Pu Erh Tea Cake Preparation

Then twist and elevate several times. After appropriate storage and aging of the tea, the taste of pu erh should be mellow and smooth.

2011 Menghai Tea Factory "Pu Zhi Wei" Ripe Puerh Tea Cake

However, at the stage of producing the cakes it undergoes a procedure called ‘wet piling’.

Pu erh tea cake preparation. For best enjoyment, store in a cool, dry place that is temperature. Compressed pu erh tea is better than loose form pu erh tea due to its smaller size and easiness of storage and the quality. Beeng cha is compressed into a tuocha style brick and then aged two years.

Hold the tea in one hand and the knife in the other hand. The only winner of loose form pu erh tea is the convenience of preparation, and also it preserves the wholeness of tea leaves. Once you’ve determined the amount of leaves, proceed as follows:

The loose leafs are sometimes aged in bamboo. Of course, you can adapt this amount to change the strength of the tea as you would like it. You should not stick your tea needle directly into the top of the tea, instead use a sideways motion in the direction of the tea flakes.

While this tea is from yunnan, where pu erh tea is produced, the production process of moonlight white is less complex. Place a basket strainer over the cup and pour the tea. 3.3 vintage pu erh / dark teas.

However, while all other teas are fresh at their best, the quality and value of a dark tea grow with the years of maturing. Then stick the knife inside the tea with controlled force. Ripened (shou 熟) packaging weight:

Bring spring or filtered water to approximately 212°f. Pour excess boiling water into a tea cup to heat the cup then discard the water. Steep leaves for 5 minutes.

A deep garnet infusion with a dense, opaque liquor bears a mellow sweetness. When using a cake or a brick tea, make sure that you are not damaging the leaves when you are trying to make the tea. We discovered this tea garden on a trip to yunnan, china.

Summer 2009 this vintage tea consists of aged shu pu'er that is compressed into a cake and packed in traditional bamboo leaf bundles called a tong. Mannong village, yunnan province, china elevation: Menghai broad leaf harvest date:

Often times, those consisting of 1 bud and 1 leaf or 1 bud and 2 leaves are picked. The one i bought was stored in a tangerine peel. Before the sunrise, fresh leaves with dew are picked.

As with other tea categories, different types of dark tea or pu erh tea first of all arise from characteristics such as origin, terroir, (sub) variety, cultivation style and picking standard. Xiaguan tea factory is famous for tuocha, menghai tea factory, for tea cake, and kunming tea factory, for tea brick. For pu erh teas that aren't loose, but compressed, you can use a tea knife to break off a piece.

Sometimes pu erh tea can taste like fish which could mean that it was stored in unsanitary conditions. The infusion has a yellow color with a sweet and smooth taste. It is from mengku mountain.

This reserve pu'er tea is released only when it is ready. After rinsing the leaves once with hot water for a few seconds then discarding the water, as mentioned above to rid the tea of any. Young pu erh might be smooth, but it’s rarely mellow.

The liquor feels soft and silky in the mouth and the throat.

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