Ten Questions and Ten Answers About White Tea: Read This Article and You'll Understand Instantly

As Fuding white tea becomes more and more well-known, many tea lovers still have plenty of questions about drinking white tea. Here we have summarized the questions tea lovers ask most often, and asked local professional masters to answer them, hoping to help tea lovers who are still confused. The classic ten questions and ten answers about white tea are about to begin.

1. The whiter the white tea, the higher the amino acid content?

Hehe!!!

First of all, the color of white tea cannot be described as white. The fine hairs on white tea are silvery gray, especially in sunlight. The denser the coverage of the fine hairs on white tea, the higher the amino acid content, and when the moisture content reaches a certain level (the national standard is below 7 points), the fine hairs on it will stand up.

2. In the market, tea that is only one or two years old is also called aged white tea?

Child, in the Fuding market, tea that is generally 2-7 years old is called chen tea, and only tea that is more than 7 years old can be called aged white tea. Some merchants in the market have registered aged white tea as a trademark and label every tea as aged white tea, so consumers need to pay attention to whether the term aged white tea is a series name or a summary of the tea's age.

3. What temperature is suitable for brewing and drinking white tea?

Old pig, white tea is divided into new tea and aged tea, and temperature control needs to be judged according to the tenderness of the tea leaves and personal taste. Generally speaking, for new tea, if you want to better express the aroma and charm of new tea, you can brew and drink it at a temperature between 85-95 degrees. Aged cake tea is generally brewed with boiling water, while loose-leaf aged tea needs to be brewed with boiling water around 90 degrees according to the aroma of the tea leaves.

4. What kind of white tea can be called good white tea?

The word "good" generally means different things to different people, just like when you have food to eat, you think everything is good.

On the premise that the tea quality of white tea passes the standard (the tea's fresh leaf raw material, the cleanliness of the tea soup, the freshness of the brewed leaves, and the moisture content of the tea), you still need to choose tea according to the tea feeling you personally prefer.

5. What kind of people are more suitable for white tea?

Old pig, with that figure of yours, you should drink more white tea.

In fact, according to the current grades of white tea, every group of people can find a white tea that suits them. Children can drink a moderate amount of white tea to reduce inflammation and increase immunity. Young office workers can drink some Baihao Yinzhen or Shoumei, which resists radiation and, for women, can also beautify and nourish the skin. Middle-aged and older people, especially those who frequently attend social engagements, can drink more aged tea to protect the liver. Older people with high blood sugar and blood lipids can regularly brew aged Shoumei in a large cup.

6. Can white tea just be dried in the sun?

Why don't you sun-dry a batch of tea and show me?

The production process of white tea is: picking - withering - drying, and the most important thing is these three steps. Consumers in the market may confuse the concept of withering with sun-drying. Withering is actually a process of natural water loss in white tea and is divided into four withering methods: outdoor withering, indoor withering, compound withering, and temperature-controlled withering.

In this process, as time goes by, the moisture content in white tea will become lower and lower, and the change in amino acid content has a huge relationship with the withering time. By the end of withering, the tea's approximate moisture content is 10 points, and by the final drying step, the moisture content of white tea needs to be within 7 points according to the national standard.

After understanding withering, let's go back and look at the two words sun-drying. Sun-drying refers to exposure to sunlight, and at this time you need to look at the intensity of the sunlight. If white tea is sun-dried under overly strong conditions, the tenderness of the white tea will be greatly affected. Second, the duration of sun exposure needs to be controlled.

So white tea cannot be described with the two words sun-drying; it is more appropriate to describe it as withering.

7. Can white tea be used as medicine?

Long ago, in Southeast Asia, Baihao Yinzhen was often used by pharmacists as a medicinal guide, but everyone should note that it is a medicinal guide. Although the health benefits of white tea are outstanding, the health effects vary from person to person because of different constitutions, and drinking tea requires long-term persistence. White tea is tea, but it is not medicine. Friends should not rely too much on the medicinal effects of white tea, and still need to start with their own diet and exercise.

In short, old pig, your medicine for insanity cannot be stopped.

8. Is the older the white tea, the blacker it is?

You have become a thousand-year-old demon, and you still are not necessarily that black.

First, friends need to have a concept of the age of aged white tea, and second, they need to understand the original color of new tea. Grades with many buds are mostly green with silvery white, while grades with many leaves have more mixed colors.

Then, during the later aging process of the tea leaves, the fermentation degree of each leaf will also differ. Greener leaves will be slower, while darker leaves will gradually turn brown. Here we need to emphasize this color: brown.

If everyone looks carefully at the color of aged white tea, normal tea conversion moves in the brown direction, and the older it gets, the deeper the brown that appears.

9. White tea is very light, and drinking it is like drinking boiled water?

Great tea has no flavor, true tea is like water. Old pig, no wonder you are a pig.

I do not know whether everyone has read an article with more than 100,000 reads before. The article said that the more expensive the tea, the higher the theanine content, which means the higher the sweetness and freshness, the lower the bitterness and astringency, and the higher the smoothness, which makes you feel it is light.

At this time, what you are drinking that tastes light may mostly be new tea. New tea itself has a high amino acid content, so the feeling of sweetness accounts for most of it.

As for aged tea, as time settles, the tea feeling becomes thicker and thicker, and the aged and mellow taste becomes fuller and fuller. At this time, the white tea is not light, but mellow and thick.

10. Is a filter needed when brewing white tea?

Under normal circumstances, tea all needs a filter. First, it avoids the awkwardness of tea guests drinking tea leaves, and second, one or two tea leaves soaking in the tea soup all the time will increase the bitterness and astringency of the tea. Under special circumstances, especially for Baihao Yinzhen among white teas, sometimes the filter will take away a lot of the fine hairs on the tea leaves, and many people feel it is a pity, so they do not use a filter.

But, old pig, your fat really needs to be filtered well.