What is the brewing method of black tea?

Among the six types of black tea, black tea is the most different. Therefore, it is not easy for many novice friends to brew a cup of delicious black tea. If you pour the brewed black tea directly into a cold teacup, the heat of the tea will be greatly reduced, and the aroma of the black tea will not be fully brought out. Therefore, before pouring in the black tea, you should first boil the tea set with boiling water. This way, the brewed black tea will taste very good.

【Master the tea brewing time】

Experiments show that when making tea with boiling water, the first things to be extracted are vitamins, amino acids, and caffeine. After about 3 minutes, the tea soup tastes fresh and mellow, but lacks stimulation. As the tea soaking time increases, the tea polyphenols in the tea are gradually soaked out. After about 5 minutes of soaking, the fresh taste of the tea soup weakens and the bitterness increases relatively. Therefore, it is best to brew black tea for about 3 minutes before drinking. Therefore, the tea can be poured into the cup within 1 minute for the first brew, and from the second brew onwards, each brew should take about 15 seconds longer, so that the concentration of the tea can be roughly the same.

【Number of times to refill water for tea brewing】

The extraction time of various effective ingredients in tea is different. When the tea is brewed for the first time, 50% to 55% of the soluble substances in the tea can be extracted; when brewed for the second time, about 30% can be extracted; when brewed for the third time, about 10% can be extracted; when brewed for the fourth time, only 2% to 3% can be extracted. Therefore, it is best to brew the Gongfu black tea strips only 2 to 3 times.

The broken black tea is fully crushed during the processing by the workers, so the tea juice can be well soaked out by brewing it once. When drinking black tea, you need to be careful to drink it while it is hot. It is best not to drink it when it cools down, because not only will the cold black tea lose its original stomach-warming effect, it may even have a certain impact on the stomach. It is also best not to drink black tea that has been left for a long time, as it will reduce the body's nutritional elements.