Bitterness of Pu-erh Tea

When I was in high school, I drank a lot of black coffee to refresh myself.

Since then the impression of coffee has been very poor, think coffee and bitter and hard to drink, drink more than the stomach also hurts.

After coming out to work, see many urban ladies will be holding a cup of coffee, the mind up to follow the trend, bought a more sweet latte, but still can but not accept.

In order to refresh, why not choose the sweet and refreshing Pu-erh raw tea?

Some people hear the saying that not bitter or astringent is not tea, and feel that tea is more bitter than coffee, so they hesitate to throw themselves into the embrace of tea.

This idea is wrong, although a good Puerh tea has a bitter and astringent taste at the entrance, it will soon be replaced by sweetness in the throat, and the comfortable and refreshing feeling in the mouth can last for a long time.

This is something that the simpler drinking experience of coffee cannot bring us.

Recently Gong Ming 2022 Pu'er spring tea has been received by many tea lovers, many new tea lovers received the new tea and could not wait to open it and drink it.

They found some bitterness and astringency, so they smothered the new tea two times before drinking it and felt it was much smoother, so they posted the experience of washing the new tea to reduce the bitterness in the product reviews.

I did not find this problem when I tried this year's new tea, the new tea entrance feeling is mellow and sweet ah.

And after smothering two bubbles of tea endoplasm has been consumed a lot, this time to taste up to feel appropriate, so people have to wonder if this tea friend's tea-throwing amount is too much.

It is said that before drinking Pu-erh tea, you need to wash the tea to clean off the dust on the surface of the tea leaves.

In the modern processing of Pu-erh tea, the possibility of contacting dust has been very small, as long as the Pu-erh tea produced by the compliance factory does not need to worry about the dust problem at all.

The purpose of washing the tea is to wake up the tea, to fully wake up the inner quality of the tea, so the taste of the first bubble will be relatively light, many tea lovers feel that there is no point in drinking it, so they will pour it away.

But if you want to drink it, that is also possible.

So according to this tea lover, the first bubble tastes very bitter and astringent, where exactly is the reason?

The bitterness and astringency in the Pu-erh tea soup come from the caffeine and tea polyphenol substances in the tea leaves.

Therefore, it is reasonable to say that no bitterness or astringency is not a tea, because no matter what kind of tea, there is more or less a certain amount of bitter and astringent flavor substances in its leaves.

Could the reason be that the quality of this year's new tea has dropped?

I took out the new tea and tasted it again, I think the new tea is more excellent than previous years, the tea maker's exquisite skills, the aroma of pure-erh tea leaves fully stimulated, tasted fresh and sweet, and the bitterness was quickly replaced by the sweetness.

The bitterness that is so fleeting should not be the bitterness that tea lovers are talking about.

Only poor producing areas of Pu-erh tea, its nutrient accumulation is not enough, resulting in insufficient flavor substances in the tea leaves, bitter substances are mostly.

When brewed, all that precipitates into the water is bitter substances, and the soup feels bland, so the bitterness and astringency will not melt on the tongue for a long time, so the tea can't afford the word "good".

This tea is to be sold, most tea sellers will tell you to wash the tea, the first tea can not be drunk.

Washing the tea itself is a common step in drinking tea, and many people will choose to pour away the first bubble of tea water when making tea.

This allows some bad businessmen to take advantage of the bad quality of the tea, soaking out the bitterness and astringency extraordinarily strong how to do it?

Pour out this bubble of bitter and astringent tea water is not finished? The name is: wash tea.

In this way, from the second bubble, the tea soup is not too bitter and astringent, but the discarded tea water also needs some flavorful substances, which makes the next tea water bland, soaking a few bubbles will completely lose flavor.

Poor quality PU-erh tea through the "tea washing" behavior to hide the bell, but the tea internal quality is not enough, not enough resistance to bubble, the tea will still be the original shape of the show.

Some tea lovers do not understand the principle, blindly catering to poor quality tea, pouring out the tea washing water, and adjusting the temperature of the tea, it is better to choose the best quality PU-erh tea.

Only the simplest brewing is needed to get a cup of good and fragrant tea.

Back to the question at the beginning of the article, why does new PU-erh tea taste bitter and astringent?

I think there are two possible reasons.

The first reason is that the amount of tea is too much.

The best tea to water ratio for brewing Pu-erh tea is 1:20, too much tea will make the bitter substances precipitate more, so it will become bitter to drink.

Before making tea, we take a scale to weigh out the amount of tea needed, for example, for a 120ml bowl, only 6g of Pu-erh tea is needed.

More tea and less water will be too bitter.

Less tea and more water will make the tea taste bland.

Only with the right amount of tea will we get a good cup of aromatic, mellow, and refreshing tea.

There is also a possibility that the soup is taking too long to come out.

Pu-erh tea is rich in substance, so if the time of soup is slow, it will let too many bitter substances precipitate into the tea soup.

This bitterness will overshadow the fresh flavor, so remember to make the tea with fast water.

From the time of water injection to the soup, control it within 7-8 seconds, so that all kinds of taste substances are evenly released, which not only ensures the level and thickness but also avoids bitterness and astringency.

Not bitter or astringent is not tea, and extremely bitter and astringent is still a big difference.

Do not be confused by some unscrupulous businessmen, in their smallpox words, the only thing they do not tell you is what is good tea.

We, as consumers, have limited ability to discern, so don't listen to those fancy words.

Use your mouth to taste each tea, drink comfortably is really good tea.

Drinking more naturally know what kind of Pu-erh tea is good tea.