Brewing Zhu Ye Qing Tea In Borosilicate Glass Teapots

Pre-brewing Preparations:

Tea ware: Electric instant tea kettle, borosilicate glass teapot, fairness cup, tea holder, tea spoon, water container, etc.

Water: Fill water in the electric instant tea kettle. Bring to boil.

Note:

1.  The temperature of hot water should be around 80°C for brewing the flat and single-leaf Zhu Ye Qing Tea.

2.  A large fairness cup can serve a “water-cooler."

3.  The green tea will float on the surface of water around 1 minute before sinking to the bottom after absorption.

4.  The single-leaf variety of green teas, such as Zhu Ye Qing Tea.

Mei Tan Cui Ya Tea, Zi Yang Yin Zhen Tea and Kai Hua Long Ding Tea, etc. is generally brewed in the "middle brewing" way.

The "water-cooler" fairness cup will cool down the water to around 80°C.

Brewing:

1.     Prepare the tea ware: Keep the Japanese tea sets ready for brewing.

2.     Warm the teapot: Pour hot water in the tea bowl.

3.     Drain the water Warm bowl covers with hot water for warming tea bowl, and then drain into the water container.

4.     Cool the water: Fill the fairness cup with hot water. Cool the temperature to 80°C.

5.     Adding tea leaves: Carefully spoon dried leaves of Zhu Ye Qing Tea into the teabowl.

6.     Moisturize the tea-leaves: Pour a little hot water to moisturize the tea.

7.     Pour water: Pour hot water from a height to fill bowls to 70%.

8.     Soak the leaves: Steep the tea for 1 minute.

Brewing Green Tea

Brewing Tai Ping Hou Kui in a Glass 
Pre-brewing Preparations

Tea ware: Electric instant tea kettle, glass teapot, tea holder, tea towel, tea spoon, water container, etc.

Water: Fill the right amount of water in the electric instant tea kettle. Bring to boil. Cool down to 85℃, ready for use.

Note:

1.     Take out Tai Ping Hou Kui Tea leaves with great care, or the fragile leaves will crumble.

2.     his better to use bigger porcelain teapots (kettles), above 10cm.

3.     Tai Ping Hou Kui Tea is generally brewed in the "bottom brewing" way.

Brewing:

1.  Prepare the tea set: Keep the tea ware ready for brewing.

2.  Warm the teapot: Warm pouring a little water.

3.  Drain the teapot: Drain the water into the water container, wipe water stains.

4.  Adding tea leaves: Carefully spoon dried leaves into the glass.

5.     Pour water: Fill the glass to 70% full with hot water.

6.     Soak the leaves: Steep the tea for 1 minute.

Sun-dried Green Tea

The sun-dried green tea is directly dried by sunlight—the oldest way of desiccation. Sun-dried green tea is mainly produced in Yunnan, Shaanxi and Sichuan. They are named after their respective places of production: Oian Qing in Yunnan, Shan Qing in Shaanxi and Chuan Qing in Sichuan. Mostly compressed as cake tea and Tuo tea (a bowl- shaped compressed mass of tea leaves), only a small amount is directly sold for consumption. Processing sun-dried green tea involves: deactivating the fresh leaves, roiling into striations and spreading over bamboo sheets in the sun. The most distinctive feature of this tea is its special sun-dried flavor.

Over the years, new processes have been introduced to better meet the market demand. For desiccation of some tea varieties, such as Wu Zi Xing Hao of Shaanxi and Kai Hua Long Ding of Zhejiang, roasting subsequent to baking or the contrary is applied to ensure a better fragrance and look. For some other tea varieties, such as E Meng Zhu Ye Qing of Sichuan, the tea buds and leaves are processed by steam deactivation and then are followed by the roasting and baking process. In some cases, the fresh green tea buds and leaves are deactivated in hot water and then are instantly scooped up for further processing.

Methods Of Putting Dried Tea

There are many ways of adding the dried tea.

The "top brewing" method: Warm the teapot, fill the teapot with hot water to around 70%, add the dried tea

The "middle brewing" method: Warm the teapot, add the dried tea leaves into the teapot, add small amount of hot water to moisturize the tea leaves, add hot water to 70% full.

The ‘bottom brewing" method: Warm the teapot, add the dried tea into teapot, thereafter, fill the teapot up to 70% with the hot water.

The "top" (Bi Luo Chun Tea and Meng Ding Gan Lu Tea) and msjjtte" (Xi Hu Long Jing Tea. Huang Shan Mao Feng Tea and An Ji Bei Cha Tea) way are usually adopted in brewing high-quality green IMIS, while the "bottom" way is adopted to brew staple green teas. However some high-quality green tea varieties, such as Tai Ping Hou Kou Tea and Uu An Gua Pian Tea adopt the "bottom" way.

Brewing Tea Ware

Transparent glass teapots, such as glass cups and glass kettles are convenient to watch the "dance of tea leaves" in the liquid. Other porcelain teapots, such as the covered bowl, porcelain cup and porcelain kettle, can also be used. Do not immediately cover pots or kettles to avoid scorching the tea.

Brewing Duration

Sleeping in hot water will make the dried tea leaves blossom. For a Single pot, brew the tea for around 1 minute. For a tea kettle and cups or novelty teapots, the first brew should be around 30 seconds, and subsequently for 5-10 seconds more than the previous tome Another way to brew tee is with an inner-pot-equipped teapot (3-piece sets). The brewed leaves can be taken out to prevent overlong brewing.

Amount Of Dried Tea

The amount of dried tea determines the strength of the tea liquid. If it is too much, the liquid will be too strong with a bitter and astringent taste; if it is too little, the liquid will be light and tasteless, without the true flavor. The amount of dried tea should be adjusted according to the volume and size of the teapots.

Principles governing the amount of dried tea:

1)      Single teapot—the ratio of tea to water is 1:50.

2)      Kettle for multiple cups and teapots—2-3g for each person

3)      The amount can be adjusted as per preference.

Temperature Of Water For Green Tea

For brewing green tea, the temperature of water is the variable. It depends on the tea varieties classified by appearances, processing techniques, production seasons, production areas and tea plants.

For example, the temperature of water is 60-65°C for tea powder. 70-75 °C for Bi Luo Chun Tea, around 80°C for most high quality and famous brands and some can even be 85-90 C. The general principle is that it should be around 80°C for most high quality and famous varieties. For staple ones, it can be a little higher, (85-90°C). But there are also exceptions. For example, for high quality Liu An Gua Pian Tea processed from single leaves, the temperature should be around 85°C to give a mellow and fragrant brew. If the temperature is too high the high-quality and famous-variety leaves will be scorched and the liquid will be a little yellowish-green, appearing deteriorated or aged. If the temperature is too low, there will be very little fragrance in China tea sets and the taste will be light. Furthermore, the dried leaves will float on the surface for a longer time. A strainer will be necessary to separate the dregs.

Six Key Factors For Brewing Green Tea

Usually, an excellent cup (pot) of green tea features high-quality, dried tea. well-prepared water, good tea ware and graceful actions However, the key factor is to brew the tea with one's heart because only the truest heart can make the best pot of green tea It may appev simple to brew a cup of green tea. but actually, it is quite difficult to simultaneously deal with the temperature of hot water, amount of dried tea. brewing duration, choice of tea ware, brewing times and water-refilling—crucial factors for brewing quality tea.