How to distinguish good from bad black tea? How to distinguish good tea from bad tea

It can be distinguished from the four aspects of color, aroma, taste and shape.

1. Grabbing: You can distinguish the shape, weight, thickness, tightness and tightness of black tea by the touch of grasping; Don't grab too much black tea to avoid sweat from your palms seeping into the tea and getting wet.

Excellent quality: high-quality black tea, the shape is cord-shaped, relatively heavy and strong; No excessive powder, broken leaves, or looseness.

Poor quality: Poor quality black tea is mostly inferior, loose, coarse, light, powdered or broken leaves. Such black tea is generally not a famous black tea, and it may or may not be fake.

2. View: The advantages and disadvantages of black tea can be distinguished by the shape, color, dryness and humidity, whether there are broken leaves, etc.; You can pick one up and put it on white paper to ** its shape:

Excellent quality: If the appearance of black tea is complete, clean, uniform in size, consistent in color, and with golden hairs and tea leaves that are easy to break or can be crushed, then it is high-quality black tea.

Poor quality: if the appearance of the black tea is mostly mutilated, accompanied by too many powdered broken leaves; It is of different sizes and is adulterated with other substances (e.g., weeds, old branches, tea fruits, etc.); The resurgency tea leaves are very tough and not easy to break; are regarded as inferior black tea.

3. Smell the aroma: you can take the black tea to smell the fragrance, whether there are other peculiar smells (such as: rancid, musty, etc.) in addition to the natural fragrance; to determine the quality of black tea;

The quality of black tea after brewing - excellent: after brewing, the soup color is crystal clear, red and bright, the brewed tea leaves are complete, no gaps, and the texture is soft and delicate, accompanied by a sweet and mellow smell; All are high-quality black teas.

The quality of black tea after brewing - inferior: the brewed black tea, the soup color is turbid, and it is accompanied by many fine powdery substances, and the taste and fragrance are not obvious, and accompanied by peculiar smell, which is regarded as inferior black tea; If the others are fine, but there is a peculiar smell, it may be caused by improper storage.

4. Tasting: If the first three points are passed, you can take a little dry tea and chew it in your mouth to distinguish it, and further understand the quality of black tea according to your taste buds;

Excellent quality: high-quality small black tea has a sweet and mellow main taste; Kung Fu black tea has a fresh, strong and mellow flavor.

Inferior quality: Inferior black tea does not have the mellow taste mentioned above; Inferior black tea is bitter, strong and astringent, pungent with peculiar smell, etc.

Black tea is one of the six major tea categories in China, with a ruddy color and is loved by people for its red soup, red leaves, and sweet taste. But many tea lovers who love black tea want to know, how to distinguish the quality of this black tea? Is the more expensive the better?

Old tea customers should know that black tea can be distinguished from the following steps:

1. Look at the appearance

The shape, weight, thickness, tightness, and tightness of black tea can be distinguished by the touch of grasping; But don't grab too much black tea to avoid the sweat of your palms from seeping into the tea and getting wet.

Let's judge from the appearance:

High-quality black tea: the shape is cord-shaped, relatively heavy, strong, complete, clean, uniform in size, consistent in color, and with golden hairs, then it is high-quality black tea.

Poor quality black tea: Poor quality black tea is loose, loose, coarse, light, powdered or broken leaves. And adulterated with other substances (weeds, old branches, tea fruits, etc.) are regarded as inferior black tea, and most of them are inferior.

2. Taste the taste

High-quality black tea: sweet, mellow as the main taste.

Poor quality black tea: bitter, strong and astringent, pungent with peculiar smell, etc. are all poor quality black tea.

3. Smell the aroma

You can take black tea to smell it, smell its fragrance, whether there is anything other than natural'In addition to the fragrance, there are no other peculiar smells (such as: rancid, musty, etc.); to determine the quality of black tea;

4. Look at the color of the soup

High-quality black tea: After brewing, the soup color is crystal clear, red and bright.

Poor quality black tea: the soup is turbid in color, accompanied by many fine powdery substances, and its taste and aroma are not obvious, and accompanied by peculiar smell.

So from the diagram, we can intuitively see that the left side is better than the right side

5. Look at the bottom of the leaf

High-quality black tea: the brewed tea leaves are complete, without gaps, and the texture is soft, delicate and accompanied by a sweet and mellow smell; All are high-quality black teas.

Inferior quality black tea: the bottom of the leaf is mixed with old stems, dark and not.

Tips

Presumably, everyone already knows how to distinguish the quality of black tea, as long as you remember these steps, you can know at a glance that black tea is good or bad.

Some tea lovers will ask, is the more expensive black tea the better? Although tea determines its best according to its own value, most of the quality of expensive tea is excellent, but it is not inevitable that some merchants will deceive consumers to sell inferior tea. The most important thing is that drinking tea is originally to taste its unique taste, which can also be said to be a kind of cultivation, and the six major types of tea have different properties and different effects on the human body, so it is best to find the tea that suits you and you like, and we drink tea to taste tea.

Identifying the quality of black tea starts from five aspects: the shape, color, aroma, taste, and bottom of the leaf of the tea

Characteristics of high-quality black tea: (1) Appearance: tight and thin, even.

2) Color: black and oily, the tip of the bud is golden yellow. (3) Aroma:

The small black tea has the fragrance of pine smoke; Gongfu black tea has a sugar aroma; Sichuan red has the fragrance of orange sugar. (4) Soup color: The soup color is red and bright, and there is a bright gold ring on the edge of the bowl, and there is a phenomenon of "cold turbidity" after cooling.

5) Taste: The tea soup tastes mellow and sweet. (6) Leaf bottom:

The buds and leaves are neat and even, soft and thick, and the color is bright and bright red.

Characteristics of inferior black tea: (1) Appearance: uneven size, rough appearance, and many impurities.

2) Color: the leaf color is dark, the bud tip is black, or the tea is blue-gray and silvery-white; The coarse old leaves are withered red in color. (3) Aroma:

The aroma is weak, cloudy, short-lived, or odorous. (4) Soup color: The soup color is dark or light and dark and turbid.

5) Taste: light or coarse astringency. (6) Leaf bottom:

The bottom of the leaf is green, dark and not.

1. Tea shape. To distinguish the quality of black tea, you can look at the shape of the tea, the black tea strips of good quality are tightly knotted, there is no broken tea or less broken tea, and the color is black and oily. Poor quality black tea is coarse and loose, the color is messy, there are many broken teas and powdered teas, and even there are inclusions.

2. Tea fragrance. To distinguish the quality of black tea, you can look at the aroma of tea, and the aroma of good quality black tea is rich and various, and the sense of hierarchy is rich. Poor quality black tea has a relatively thin aroma after brewing, with obvious miscellaneous flavors and almost no sense of layering.

3. Tea soup. You can look at the tea soup to distinguish the quality of black tea, and the tea soup is clear and translucent after brewing, which can give people a sense of crystal clearness. After brewing the poor quality black tea, the tea soup is muddy and dull, and there is a layer of tea oil floating on the surface.

To identify the quality of black tea, it is necessary to look at the integrity of the leaves, the color and smell.