How to brew black tea

1. Home-style brewing method

1. Warming the teapot: Use boiling water to warm the tea leaves and teacups. Cold teapots cannot be brewed. Bring out the original flavor of black tea. Do not use an iron kettle to boil water.

2. Pour in an appropriate amount of tea leaves: basically the ratio of one teaspoon of tea leaves to a cup of black tea.

3. Brewing: Use boiling water for brewing black tea. The hotter the better. If you reheat the food after cooling it, it won't taste good.

4. Cover the pot lid: If you are brewing broken tea leaves, after adding hot water, remove the tea filter and tea leaves, and then cover the pot lid, because broken black tea is easy to brew. If it is too long, it will be bitter. The longer the tea leaves are, the longer the steeping time can be.

2. Ornamental brewing method

1. Equipment: pot, fair cup, tea tasting cup, aroma cup placed on the tea tray, tea ceremony, tea sample jar placed on the tea tray On the left, the kettle is placed on the right of the tea tray.

2. Tea appreciation: Open the tea sample jar and let the guests appreciate the color and shape of the tea leaves.

3. Hot cup hot pot: Pour boiling water into the kettle, then pour the water into the fair cup, and then pour it into the tea cup.

4. Put the tea into the pot according to the ratio of 1:50.

5. Wash the tea: Add water to the pot in your right hand, use the lid with your left hand to scrape off the foam, cover the lid with your left hand, and pour the tea into the aroma cup.

6. First brew: Add boiling water to the pot, soak for one minute, take the opportunity to wash the cup, pour out the water, hold the pot in your right hand and pour the tea into the fair cup, then pour it from the fair cup and smell it. The fragrant cup is only filled seven percent full.

7. Carp jumps over the dragon gate: use your right hand to cover the tea-tasting cup over the aroma-smelling cup, place the thumb of your right hand on the bottom of the tea-tasting cup, place your index finger on the bottom of the aroma-smelling cup, and turn it over One lap.

8. Traveling: hold the bottom of the tea cup with your left hand, lift the aroma cup from the tea cup with your right hand, and turn it around the mouth of the cup.

9. Like to smell the fragrance: Place the fragrance cup in the palm of your left hand, with the mouth of the cup facing down, rotate it 90 degrees, with the mouth of the cup facing you, cover the mouth of the cup with your thumb, and place it under your nose. Smell the fragrance carefully.

10. Sip sweet tea: Three sips are one taste. Take three sips and taste carefully to explore the sweetness of the tea.

11. Second bubble and third bubble: The operation is the same as above.