About tea, Thailand tea, and TEA SIDE
About tea, Thailand tea, and TEA SIDE
If you want a tasty drink, everything that makes tea tasty will be right. If you want to hold a beautiful and heartfelt tea session, everything that you personally need for this will be right — from white socks to belly dancing with a tambourine. However, there are several generally accepted formats of tea ceremony.
Let’s talk about white tea. About what is white tea made of and its technology features. Geography, botany and history of white tea. The varieties of white tea, and what tea buds are, and how they differ from leaves. White tea vs green tea. Benefits and Caffeine. Storing white tea. How to brew tips.
A couple of years ago, a fellow tea connoisseur shared such a piece of “Chinese” wisdom with me: “If you want to sell tea, make a soft brew; if you want to buy tea, make a strong brew; if you want to treat your friends to a cup of tea, make a regular brew.”
About how storage conditions influence the development of sheng (raw) pu-erh tea taste. About traditional Hong Kong storage. About natural storage in different climates. And about what formation of taste preferences depends on.
According to some Chinese specialists’ opinions, one has to consider the following 6 properties of tea to understand shu pu-erh: depth of taste, smoothness, moisture, sweetness (sugariness), purity of taste, and quality of flavor.
Oolong tea is well suited for the tea ceremony. It has a bright organoleptic (taste and aromatic) properties, which change in the process of brewing, from steeping to steeping.
“Hong Tai Chang” cakes are ones of the exclusive representatives of the pu-erh tradition - a bright flourish in the history of pu-erh tea.
Well, what does the content of caffeine found in tea depend on? Is there caffeine in green tea?
James happened to visit Thailand on Songkran. But instead of pouring water on each other's back we had interesting tea-talks pouring water into a teapot.
Oolong tea is a combination of the material and technology. Both factors matter and affect the taste. Aging is also applicable here and true oolongs only gain taste and power with years.