The article will mainly describe green puer. Consider its beneficial properties, as well as contraindications. Learn to brew Chinese Shen Puer green tea. And we learn a lot of interesting things about him.
Puer Shen - Green Tea
World famous tea, grown and processed in a special way in the Chinese outback Yunnan. This is an elite and ancient variety of real Chinese tea. Pu-erh is black or green tea that has gone through certain stages of fermentation. Collect tea from trees growing in the province. It is delivered to the tables of true connoisseurs in a pressed form. There is still white, which, unlike the previous two types of tea, is prepared not from the leaves of the tea tree, but from its buds.
Where does he come from?
Green tea is made from large succulent leaves of the tea tree. It is considered raw tea. Usually Chinese green Puer tea is pressed, like its other varieties (black and white). Pressed tea leaves in the form of pancake or bricks. It happens to meet tea, pressed in the form of squares and in the shape of a pumpkin. The pressing process takes place both manually and with the help of modern pressing machines. It can also be loose.
If you make tea from an unripe, non-fermented green variety, the infusion will have a greenish or yellow color and an aroma that resembles a cross between an apple and smoke. But most often the taste has fruity notes and forest notes. If you give the raw materials five years for ripening, then in the end the taste of the infusion will soften and complement with the flavoring shades of melon and walnut. "Puer Shen", having a decent quality, will certainly give a sweet, long aftertaste. Puer green tea is considered the most affordable of all its varieties. Previously, such a drink was consumed by Chinese nomadic peoples.
Features of green puerh production
The best tea is considered to be collected not from bushes, but from trees. The older the tree, the more elite will be a drink made from its leaves. Twigs with three to four leaves are ideal for collection. Small branches with several juicy leaves are crushed after collection, so that juice and enzymes stand out. Then the variety is allowed to mature for a long time. During this process, fermentation takes place with the participation of juice that has come to the surface during the crushing of tea leaves.
The process should take place for at least five months. Now they sometimes use a certain method for acceleration: they store tea raw materials in heaps and spray them with water to speed up the process. After fermentation, the color and aroma of the drink change for the better. Tea also loses excessive bitterness, and its taste becomes more refined. When fermentation is complete, puer is pressed and packaged. Puer should now be in a pressed state for at least one year.
Tea processed in a special way differs from ordinary green teas in its taste. Puer Shen is dried directly in the sun, and its fermentation occurs a little differently than medium green teas, whose leaves are dried in a special oven.
The taste of puer is only better every year. The more time the finished pressed tea lies, the more elegant the infusion from it will turn out. Several decades to store this puer is not the limit.
Its useful properties
The properties of green Puer tea contribute to the fact that they try to use such a drink only in the first half of the day. It gives vitality and tones the whole body as a whole. Saturated with the necessary elements, the infusion of tea will give you excellent health and, no less important, a beautiful appearance. Green puer will remove accumulated toxins from the liver and cleanse it. Not very long aged tea can help the body cope with stressful situations and even ease psychological stress. Also, the drink has warming properties.
Another of the healing and beneficial properties of green puer tea is its ability to influence weight loss well. "Puer Shen" instantly normalizes the digestive processes in the body and lowers the concentration of cholesterol in the blood vessels. Slightly stimulates the diuretic process in the body. It is an accelerator of the regenerative process at the cellular level. Puer also has no equal in the fight against a hangover. However, he also quickly heals other poisonings in the body by absorbing and eliminating toxins.
Proper brewing
You can enjoy the taste of green Puer tea only if you approach the brewing of the drink with all correctness. When brewing a green variety, certain conditions and actions should always be observed.
Any tea in the Chinese tradition does not endure haste and fuss. In no case pour Chinese green Puer tea with boiling water. This is a delicate tea, and the water for its preparation should have a temperature from eighty to eighty-five degrees. True teaspoons can determine the temperature of boiling water by eye. And for ordinary lovers of Chinese tea ceremonies, it is better to purchase a kettle with a built-in thermometer.
When thin strings of bubbles appear in a boiling kettle, it's time to start brewing. To do this, a piece of small size should be broken off from the pressed tea "wheel". The trick is to manage not to break a single leaf at the same time. It is believed that broken leaves will endow tea infusion with unnecessary astringency, which is already present in young raw materials.
Steaming green Puer tea
What does it consist of?
- About three teaspoons of raw material should be placed in a teapot. It should be warmed up first. To do this, just rinse the container with boiling water.
- Pour the raw material into a warmed teapot. Pour in hot clean water. Count down twenty seconds and drain the water from the tea. This procedure helps wake up tea leaves. They will turn around and steal slightly. Rinse off the dust at the same time.
- Now pour hot water into the steamed tea, wait two minutes. The saturation of the infusion will depend on the duration of the interaction of water with tea raw materials. Therefore, everyone chooses the taste and strength of green puer for himself, as well as the time during which the drink will be infused in the teapot. Two minutes is the most suitable brewing time. Tea in the same teapot can be poured with hot water several times.
Contraindications for use
This aromatic and healthy drink has practically no contraindications. It does not cause any dangerous consequences both for the person drinking it and for those around him. However, people with caffeine intolerance should be wary of consuming this type of tea. Children under eight years old are also not recommended to drink such a drink. You can drink puerh for people with some health problems, only it is worth observing the measure in this case. For example, if the kidneys are diseased, then the diuretic properties of tea can give a large load to the diseased organ and provoke an exacerbation.
Tea state
Let's talk about the famous "tea intoxication." It was thanks to him that Puer became famous far beyond the borders of the Chinese province. Do not try to get real intoxication from tea. Of course, there is heated debate about "tea intoxication", and many are ready to swear that they have experienced it more than once. However, it will be more literate to call the state after the adoption of the puer not intoxication, but "tea state". How many people are trying to explain this subtle, almost inexplicable state.
Everyone turns out to tell about him in his own way. The essence of the "tea state" is that the person who drank the drink receives some bliss and peace. Clarity of mind, pep and even a surge of physical strength. If you yourself want to know exactly what "tea state" means, you will have no choice but to try puer tea personally.