Anhua Dark Tea

Among China’s colorful tea culture, Anhua black tea attracts more and more tea lovers with its unique flavor and production process. The black tea brick gets its name because it uses a raw material called black hairy tea. After special processing, this tea leaves take on a deep black color and a shiny, oily surface. During production, the tea leaves are pressed into a block shape that resembles a sturdy brick, hence the name “black tea brick”.

On the surface of a traditional black tea brick, the three Chinese characters “Hei Jian Cha” (black brick tea) are usually clearly printed, while the origin mark “Anhua, Hunan” is printed underneath. In the center of the tea brick, there is also an inlaid five-pointed star pattern, which not only adds to the ornamental value of the tea brick, but also becomes a symbol of its unique identity. Each such traditional black tea brick weighs 2 kg, equivalent to about 4.4 pounds, and looks heavy and very substantial.

Characteristics Of Fine Anhua Dark Tea

Shape:
The tea leaves are pressed into rectangular bricks, with solid texture and full weight in the hand. The surface of the brick is flat and smooth, without the slightest unevenness, and the pattern on it is clearly recognizable, both the lines and textures are very clear, with distinctive edges and corners, and the overall shape is neat and aesthetically pleasing, which demonstrates the exquisite craftsmanship of the production process.

Color:
The overall dark brown color is deep and rich, giving people a sense of simplicity and stability, and the natural color of its surface reveals the flavor of the precipitation of the years.

Soup color:
After brewing, the tea broth shows red and yellow color, unique color, both with the red bright, but also a blend of yellow soft, light through the tea broth, clearly visible, pure and unadulterated, showing the clarity and brightness of the tea broth.

Aroma:
The aroma is very unique, the fungus flower aroma is pure and strong, smells fresh and natural, without the slightest miscellaneous flavors, this unique aroma slowly rises with the heat, filling the air, refreshing and invigorating.

Taste:
in the mouth can feel the mellow tea soup, rich and full of taste, no sense of thinness, in the mouth echoing taste long and persistent, to bring people a comfortable drinking experience.

Tea leaves after brewing:
The color of the leaf bottom is mainly yellowish brown, the leaves still retain a certain degree of tenderness, and the size of the leaves is relatively uniform, and the whole is still well-balanced, indicating that the tea leaves are of good quality.

Origin Of Anhua Dark Tea

Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, China

Benefits Of Anhua Dark Tea

1. Stomach Nourishing and Stomach Strengthening: Modern medical research shows that the tea polyphenols in this tea have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that protect the stomach and intestines. Long-term regular consumption helps to enhance the activity of digestive enzymes in the stomach, improving the stomach’s ability to digest and absorb food.
2. Helps digestion, relieves grease, and smooths the stomach: The caffeine in tea can directly stimulate the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract, promote its contraction and diastole, and accelerate the transmission speed of food in the gastrointestinal tract, thus promoting digestion. And dietary fiber can increase the volume of feces, promote intestinal peristalsis, and at the same time provide nutrition for intestinal beneficial bacteria to improve the intestinal microenvironment. When greasy food is ingested, the ingredients in tea can promote bile secretion and help emulsify fat, making it easier to be absorbed and metabolized by the intestinal tract, reducing the burden of the intestines and stomach in digesting greasy food, and keeping the intestines and stomach smooth and healthy.
3. Lowering blood pressure and regulating blood lipids: Flavonoids in tea can activate nitric oxide synthase in vascular endothelial cells to achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure. Tea pigments can promote the activity of lipoprotein lipase, accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of blood lipids, reduce the content of triglycerides, cholesterol and other lipid components in the blood, and effectively regulate the level of blood lipids.

How To Brew Tea

Tea set selection of white porcelain bowl is preferred, purple sand pot is preferred, tea and water ratio of 1:20, water temperature of 100 ℃, moistening tea, water injection after 10s soup, can be brewed more than 10 times.

How To Store Tea

Black tea can be stored for a long time.

Black tea loose tea can be used kraft paper bags, gabion baskets, clay pots first, small baskets loaded with day tip tea, brick tea, cake tea can be loaded into odorless cardboard boxes, while the relative sealing, to maintain breathability, and finally placed in the study or tea room preservation, pay attention to the environment and the circulation of air.

Bare tea, packaged tea, not similar products and products of different manufacturers should not be mixed, so as not to cascade flavor.

Control temperature: below 25℃, relative humidity: below 70%.

Suitable For People

Those who are weak, like to eat meat, have poor stomach and intestines, high blood pressure, overweight people

Contraindicated Population

Malnourished people, long-term vegetarians