The difference between Pu'er tea and dark tea is

1. Differences in specific technological processes

Black tea technological process: picking, greening, initial kneading, stacking, Re-kneading, baking, autoclaving, and drying (some dark teas such as Anhua Fu brick will undergo "flowering" and secondary fermentation processes after autoclaving).

Pu’er raw tea process flow: picking, withering, blanching, rolling, drying, autoclaving, and drying.

Pu'er ripe tea process flow: picking, withering, fixing, rolling, drying, stacking, autoclaving and drying.

Comparing the main production processes of Pu'er tea and dark tea, it can be seen that the two processes are obviously different.

2. Comparative differences in terms of the number of process links

The main process flow of dark tea has 8 links. If you add the "flowering" process and secondary process of some dark tea, The fermentation process is 10 steps.

There are 7 links in raw Pu'er tea and 8 links in cooked Pu'er tea.

3. Comparative differences in terms of process methods and purposes

Withering: Black tea is directly cured without withering; while Pu'er tea and hair tea must wither and then begin to be cured.

Rolling: There are two rounds of rolling for black tea, one is the initial rolling before Wodui, and the other is the second round after Wodui, while Pu'er tea only needs one round of rolling after finishing. That’s it.

During the initial drying of Pu'er tea after rolling, the activity of the enzymes in the tea and some of the bacteria involved in fermentation should be preserved as much as possible, in order to slow the post-fermentation of raw tea during later storage and the rapid accumulation of cooked tea. Post-fermentation creates basic conditions, so drying is mainly based on drying.

4. From the perspective of raw materials

From the perspective of raw materials, dark tea is a raw tea made from the thick old fresh leaves of small-leaf tea trees; while Pu'er tea It is a processed tea made from Yunnan's unique large-leaf sun-dried green tea.

From the perspective of sales, dark tea is mainly made into pressed tea for border sales, which belongs to border sales; while Pu'er tea includes Pu'er group tea, Pu'er cake tea, Pu'er Tuo tea, Pu'er brick tea, and Pu'er tea paste Five major categories, available for side sales, domestic sales and export sales

5. From the perspective of production technology

From the perspective of production technology, dark tea belongs to the basic tea category.

Pu'er tea is a reprocessed tea, so the production techniques of the two are quite different.