The fragrant osmanthus tea is popular, but many people do not know how to make osmanthus tea. As long as the osmanthus flowers in bud when picked, soaking water to remove impurities, ready to make fresh tea leaves into tea embryo, and then the tea embryo and osmanthus flowers stacked on top of each other for the cellar system. When the cellar system, pay attention to ventilation and heat dissipation, and then take out the osmanthus flowers after absorbing the fragrance, drying and preservation can be.

1, pick osmanthus flowers

Before making osmanthus tea, first pick osmanthus flowers on the osmanthus tree as raw materials. The picking of osmanthus flowers is usually carried out in the full bloom period of osmanthus, when the flowers of osmanthus buds show the shape of a tiger's claw, the golden yellow osmanthus flowers are picked and put into a prepared sieve, remember to pick out the stalks, leaves and throw away.

2, clean water

Osmanthus flowers in the pick down, but also need to put it in the water for cleaning, so that it becomes clean. Cleaning water should choose to cool the boiling water, conducive to better removal of impurities in the osmanthus flowers, pay attention not to use tap water directly for rinsing, it will make the petals damaged flower aroma dissipation.

3, the production of tea embryo

Osmanthus tea to have tea flavor is the need to have tea embryo cellar system, you can choose fresh with 2 leaves and 1 bud, and has a 5% moisture content of the tea, will be high temperature drying to form green tea embryo. Wait until the temperature of the tea embryo is reduced to 26 ~ 30 ℃, you can cellar system.

4, cellar osmanthus

The cooled tea embryo spread a layer of white cloth, and then lay a layer of osmanthus on the top according to the ratio of 3:1, and then stacked layer by layer. When the osmanthus flowers are finished, the tea embryo will be covered with another layer of osmanthus flowers on top to seal the lid. Cellar system to maintain the temperature at about 20 ℃, so that the osmanthus flowers can normally emit flavor.

5, through the flowers to dissipate heat

Osmanthus and tea together, not ventilated is easy to form a hot and humid environment, so after placing 2 to 3 hours, you need to steak scattered up and down, so that its temperature is reduced. Wait for its temperature below 30 ℃ and then collect it to spread, continue to cinnamon cellar system, so that it evenly absorb the aroma.

6, drying storage

In the osmanthus color becomes purple-red, looks more shriveled, and the tea embryo also began to become soft after not sticky hands, you can end the cellar system. Remove the tea flowers and dry them again to dry out the water. Then the dry osmanthus flowers with bag storage packaging, the good osmanthus tea.