Tea Tasting
Tea tasting is the very method used by the tea merchant and the professional tea tasters to impart the exclusive individual characteristics and trait of the various types of tea.
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The tea tasting revolves around a table decorated with bowls of dry leaves. This allows the tea tasters to touch and feel the leaves and also observe their outlook before draining it into liquor
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The next stage is preceded by putting about 2.8 grams of tea leaves into a kettle with a capacity of 150 ml for brewing. Boiling water is poured onto the tea leaves and the kettle is covered to allow brewing which takes about six minutes of time
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The experts shift places around the table, take one teaspoon of sample after another, sip it into their mouths and then slurp or rotate the tea over their entire palates and mouth for smooth and consistent tasting and to maximize their impression in various tastes
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After tasting each tea, the tasters spit the liquor into spittoons
Additives such as sugar, milk or other does not cover the process of professionals tea-tasting as the purpose of tasting is to distinguish the elements of taste and smell in its virgin form.