The difference between raw and ripe pu-erh is: different appearance and color, different leaf bottom, different taste, and different production process.

1, the appearance of different colors: raw puerh green or dark green, some of the yellow-red, hairs exposed; ripe puerh reddish-brown or brown, with the golden hairs, the heavy fermentation will be a little black, the buds of the golden yellow or dark golden yellow.

2, the bottom of the leaf is different: The bottom of the leaf of raw puerh is yellowish green or dark green, and the bottom of the leaf of ripe puerh is reddish brown.

3, the taste is different: raw puerh taste strong, tea gas, tea soup fragrance, bitter with astringent; ripe puerh basically no bitter and astringent, the mouth mellow, soft, sweet.

4, the production process is different: raw puerh to Yunnan large-leafed species of fresh leaves as raw materials, through the process of spreading cool, killing, kneading and twisting, sun-drying, steaming, drying, and then steaming into a cake or other shapes; ripe puerh to the green tea as raw materials, through the killing, kneading and sun-drying into the sun-green tea, followed by artificial rapid fermentation.