丨This article was originally created by Xiao Chen Chashi
丨First published in the headline: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Human likes and dislikes are very direct.
Sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it's rational.
Everyone's liking for white dew tea and white peony is often emotional.
Sensual liking, belonging to the mind, to the imagination, to the spiritual level, has a strong subjective tendency.
But everyone's liking for casual bubbles is rational.
Rational liking, out of pragmatism, out of functional particularity, out of practical value.
Brewing is actually a magical tea.
Amazingly, people who drink it will think it's good.
A good that is easy to use and easy to carry, a good that can drink good white tea simply and conveniently, and a good one that brings tea as you like when traveling on business.
In particular, its grammage is extremely special, not the conventional 5 grams, but about 2.5 grams. It is about half the grammage less than the loose tea brewed in the usual bowl.
Therefore, there are tea friends, while happily drinking and brewing, come to ask, why is it not 5 grams but 2.5 grams?
Should this small piece of cake tea be less than loose tea?
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Why not 5 grams?
Because, it's freewheeling.
Indulge as you like, the focus is on the word casual - casual, casual, casual.
It means that it is delicious no matter how it is brewed, that is, no matter what kind of container to soak it, it will not be difficult to drink.
As we all know, tea is born with a bitter taste.
In order to remove these bitter substances as much as possible, when picking, processing, it is extremely particular, depending on the weather, pay attention to the technique, but also spread out in time, thin and thin...
Even, even the way of brewing, the brewing container, the temperature of the brewing water, the time of soup... And so on, you must be very particular, otherwise, it is easy to brew the bitter taste in the tea and drink it.
Totally masochistic.
And the emergence of casual bubbles is to solve this "abuse".
It does not have to be too particular about the brewing method, brewing water temperature, brewing time, brewing container.
Not only does it not have to be too fancy, but it can even be a little more spontaneous and casual - you can make good tea as you like.
Seeing this, the rank and file officials must wonder, why can you be so bold when you brew it as you like, while other tea leaves should be careful and careful?
The reason for this, the core of the problem, is the grammage of the bubble at will.
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Instant Bubble is 2.5 grams.
How is this special grammage calculated?
It is calculated based on its brewing method and the number of drinkers.
Free Brew is a small tea cake, small tea brick and small tea block specially designed for the thermos cup.
It serves only one person and is only suitable for one person to drink.
Its brewing method is thermos cup brewing, which needs to be soaked in warm water and kept for a relatively long time.
As a result, it is only 2.5 grams.
If it is 5 grams, old tea friends know that the tea soup brewed in this way is too strong, too heavy, too greasy - the normal thermos cup is 300 ml, 330 ml, 450 ml, 500 ml, in these capacities, if you put 5 grams of tea into the thermos cup, the result after brewing it in hot water for a period of time is that the tea soup is too strong, the bitterness is extremely heavy, and the taste is not good.
It can only be halved.
From 5 grams to 2.5 grams, the tea is halved, the water does not change, brew out, and it is harmonious.
Boiling water, 300-500 ml of water, soaked for 10 minutes, 30 minutes before drinking, even if it is soaked for 1 hour before drinking, it will not be bitter.
Moreover, the vertical and straight shape of the traditional thermos cup has the effect of gathering fragrance, after soaking for 10 minutes, open the lid of the thermos cup, smell, I see the fragrance of flowers, the fragrance of medicine, the jujube fragrance, really, it smells very good.
Compared with the single dull smell of small tea cakes and chocolate bricks pressed with inferior materials on the market, I don't know how many times higher.
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Of course, the amount of 2.5 grams of tea is not a hot head.
It is the result of many tests and experiments.
It was 5 grams at first, but it was found to be too thick.
So change to 4.5 grams, a little lighter, but the soaking time in the thermos cup is long and thick.
So it was reduced again, to 4 grams, to 3 grams, until 2.5 grams, it became.
No matter how long it is brewed, as long as it is a thermos cup of more than 300 ml, as long as it is not higher than 500 ml of water, the tea soup will not be bitter, will not be astringent, will not scrape the tongue, and will not be difficult to swallow.
Moreover, the soup is still clear, still fresh, still alive, and quickly sweet, and there is a strong floral fragrance, medicinal aroma and jujube fragrance in the tea soup....
It is only a little less layered than the bowl brewing, but the consistency and taste of the soup have not changed much.
Based on the above experimental tests, the amount of tea brewed at will is set at 2.5 grams.
The decision is the aroma and taste of the tea soup, but it is not because the amount of brick tea is destined to be less than that of loose tea.
Compared with loose tea, as long as the amount of tea is the same, the amount of tea should also be the same.
Bricks, cakes and loose tea, they are all reasonable forms of white tea, their tea dosage is the same, and there is no problem of which form of white tea has more tea, which form of white tea has less tea.
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In the final analysis, the amount of tea cast in white tea is related to the quality of white tea, related to the year of white tea, but has nothing to do with whether white tea is a cake or loose tea.
The quality of old white tea is extremely poor, the process of aging makes the nutrients in the green leaves of the tea greatly lost, so that after the old white tea is done, the content is extremely low, after brewing, the aroma is light, the taste is low, and there is no tea taste at all.
When it is brewed, it is necessary to increase the amount of tea, to 6 grams or even 7 grams, so that the tea soup can have a little more taste.
There are some old white teas, due to the severe loss of internal matter, brewing can not brew the taste, can only be boiled - those "old white tea" that advertise that it will not be bitter how to cook is such old tea.
Sometimes, tea friends come to ask, I want to buy an old white tea suitable for boiling.
I will ruthlessly refuse: there is no old white tea suitable for boiling in this world, only old old white tea that can only be boiled and drunk, because of its lack of internal matter, it cannot be drunk without boiling.
And the real old white tea, because of the real vintage, rich internal quality, after many years of good transformation, when brewing, can no longer drink 5 grams - too strong, can only reduce the amount of tea, 4 grams or 4.5 grams is suitable.
It can be seen that the real old white tea will save tea. And old white tea, will cost tea.
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Bubble as you like, there are specialized sizes.
Have tea lovers found out?
It is half the width of other small tea brick white tea on the market.
This width is just the size of a normal thermos cup.
The pressure is too wide, the cup mouth is small, a whole piece can not be put in, can only be broken into two pieces on the spot, which is very embarrassing - one piece is put into the thermos cup, what to do with the other piece? If you're at the airport, throw it away, or put it in your pocket?
Good trouble.
And the width of the brew is just right, one piece into the thermos cup, no need to break, no need to throw away half, and do not waste good tea, and save trouble, you can also drink real old white tea immediately.
Such a convenient and easy-to-carry old white tea, why don't you like it?
When spring is in full bloom, take it on an outing.
Find a place with beautiful mountains and waters, open the thermos cup and drink it.
The spring light in front of you, combined with the tea fragrance in your mouth, is a bright, spring travel picture.
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, columnist, the chief writer of the original innovative media "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" in the tea industry, has published the white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Handbook", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.