Production process of black tea
1, pick up the goods
Fresh, in order to maintain the effective components of fresh leaves.
2. wither
Sun the picked fresh leaves on fresh reeds and air them in the sun until the color is dark green.
malaxation
Knead the wilting leaves into strips by hand and knead the tea juice moderately.
Step 4 ferment
Put the twisted tea into a wooden bucket or bamboo basket, press it flat, cover it with a wet cloth, dry it in the sun, and smoke it with tea to get the wet green tea. Fermentation is a unique stage of black tea production and the key to determine the quality of Qi black tea. The fermentation room temperature is controlled below 30 degrees, and the color of fermented leaves turns red, forming the quality characteristics of Qi black tea Hongye red soup.
5. Dry ...
The wet blank is dried in the sun, and it is dried to 50% or 60% dry with charcoal fire in rainy days, commonly known as hairy tea.
Step 6 check
In the big tea room, the lower body room and the tail room, there are three geographies. The whole process has to go through more than ten different types of tea screening before the top tea can be separated.
7. Pick and choose
Manually select and remove the light pieces, fragments, yellow pieces, tea stems and sundries in the screened tea.
8. Packaging
After all the processes are completed, wooden cases are used outside and tin foil paper is used inside, and the packaging is sealed.
Picking of black tea
1, thin and tender
The tender standard tea is mainly used to make high-grade famous tea, and the fresh leaves are very tender. Usually pick tea buds, one bud and one leaf, and one bud and two leaves.
2. Moderate mining
Moderately picked and standard picked tea leaves are mainly used to make bulk tea, such as Kung Fu black tea and black broken tea. The tenderness of fresh leaves should be moderate. Generally, one bud and two leaves are the main ones, and one bud, three leaves and tender leaves are also collected.
3. Mature mining
Standard cut mature tea leaves are mainly used to make edge-selling tea. The standard of picking raw materials is that when the new shoots stop growing and the lower part is basically mature, four or five pieces of a bud are picked in pairs.
4. Special excavation
Special picking standard tea is mainly used to make some traditional special tea. The standard of picking is to pick three or four leaves when the new shoots grow until the terminal buds stop growing and the terminal leaves are not "open", commonly known as open-face picking or three-leaf and half-picking.
The above is how to make black tea. Generally speaking, black tea is very particular about its production requirements, and there are strict standards for both tea picking and tea making! Of course, it is also because of such strict requirements that the quality of black tea is high!