1. Blue brick tea is a kind of black tea, which is made by pressing old green tea. Its origin is mainly in Xianning County, Hubei Province, such as Qi Bo, Xianning, Tongshan, Chongyang and Tongjiangchang, with a history of 100 years. Blue brick tea is rectangular and long brick-shaped, blue-brown in color, pure in aroma, rich in flavor, red and Huang Liang in water, and rough in leaf color.
2. Pu 'er tea is a famous local tea formed in Yunnan history. In ancient times, Pu 'er tea was often made into various shapes to facilitate transportation. The blocky one is called Pu 'er brick tea.
Three, blue brick tea and Pu 'er tea belong to black tea, but the origin, leaf species and technology are also different:
The processing of green brick tea is more complicated because it is divided into "face tea" and "inner tea". Good tea is face tea and second tea is inner tea, so the surface of the processed green brick tea is flat and smooth. One or two old green teas are noodles.
Methods: 1: Stacking fermentation. 2. Sieving and cutting into blanks. 3. Autoclave molding. 4: drying.
Pu 'er tea technology:
The production process can be divided into traditional production process and modern production process.
Traditional production technology: picking tea, deactivating enzymes (sun-drying, frying), rolling (kneading dough by hand), sun-drying, screening and sorting, autoclaving, and finally drying (sun-drying, drying in the shade).
Modern production technology (artificial aging): picking tea, deactivating enzymes (frying in pan, rolling), rolling (machining), drying (drying), humidifying and fermenting (sprinkling water and tea fungus), drying, screening and sorting, autoclaving, and finally drying (drying).