How To Choose And Identify Black Tea

There are many varieties of black tea on the market, and the quality is also uneven, but the corresponding identification standards for each are similar. In order to ensure that we can buy good black tea with guaranteed quality, let's take a look at the selection skills of black tea.

With Your Hand

Feel the weight, density and thickness of the tea sticks. The tea sticks of high-quality black tea are usually firm and dense, so they have a sense of weight. On the contrary, if the tea cords are thick and light, it is relatively poor. of. At the same time, you can also know the dryness of the black tea by touching it with your hand. If it is tingling when you touch it, and it is easy to break, it means that the dryness of the tea leaves is acceptable. However, if the tea leaves are not easy to break, it means that the tea leaves are moist, and it is not recommended to buy them.

With Your Eyes

Take a large spoonful of tea leaves, put it on a plate, shake the plate with both hands to spread the tea leaves evenly, and then observe that the color of high-quality black tea is oily black, complete and clean, no broken tea or less broken tea, while the color of inferior black tea is messy , broken tea and powder, and even other sundries.

At the same time, take an appropriate amount of tea leaves to brew in a transparent glass cup, and observe the color of the soup and the bottom of the leaves after brewing. The color of the high-quality black tea is red, clear, the bottom of the leaves is complete and uniform, and the texture is soft; but the color of the poor-quality soup is darker and turbid, The bottom of the leaves is uneven and the color is dull.

With Your Nose

High-quality black tea has its sweet fragrance when it is dry, and will have a natural fragrance once brewing, while low-quality black tea is not obvious or mixed with peculiar smell.

With Your Tongue

When the appearance and quality of dry tea meet the purchasing standards, you can take some tea leaves and chew them in your mouth. The taste of high-quality black tea is mainly sweet and alcohol, while the taste of low-quality black tea is thick and astringent, bitter, and even peculiar.

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