Refined Processing Flow and Technical Key Points of Eyebrow Tea

Its product shape resembles an eyebrow, hence it is called eyebrow tea. Eyebrow tea is one of the bulk export teas of Zhejiang green tea. Eyebrow tea is made from long pan-fired green tea (Hangzhou pan-fired green tea, Suichang pan-fired green tea, Wenzhou pan-fired green tea) as raw material, refined and blended.

Its processing technique is: blending and grading of raw materials, taking material from five routes: the body itself, round body, long body, sub-grade bits, and stem and fiber. The processing operations are divided into re-firing and rolling of crude tea, sorting and sifting, beating and sifting, shaking and sifting, strip cutting, picking and removing, fanning, supplementary firing and coloring, clearing wind and cutting off dust; the semi-finished product is piled and stored in the warehouse, then blended according to the sample, evenly piled and packed into boxes to become export eyebrow tea. Its product specifications are divided by quality and form into Special Chunmee, Chunmee, Yu Tea, Xiumee, tea flakes, and so on. Enterprises processing eyebrow tea mainly include refined tea factories in Hangzhou, Lin'an Chun'an, Kaihua, Anji, Huzhou, Suichang, Songyang, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Deqing, Yuhang, Fuyang, Jiande, Quzhou, Jiangshan, Changshan, Sanmen, Xianju, Pingyang, Taishun, Cangnan, and others. Export packaging is divided into large packaging and small packaging; large packaging is packed in three-ply wooden boxes according to the specifications of the export tea number; small packaging is packed in different packaging specifications into outer cardboard boxes.