According to different processing techniques, Pu’er tea can be divided into raw Pu’er tea and cooked Pu’er tea. Raw Pu’er tea can help the body’s metabolism, refresh the mind, lose weight and reduce fat, and many other effects. The quality of a tea can be identified from the color of the Pu-erh tea soup.
The soup color of tea soup is the expression of the quality of tea processing and the quality of tea products. The quality of tea products can be analyzed from the different colors of tea soup.
So what are the 10 common soup colors of Pu’er raw tea?
1. Luyan: The tea soup is emerald green and yellowish, clear and bright, light green and bright. Luyan is the soup color of high-quality sun-dried green mao tea with fresh leaves collected in time, properly killed, dried quickly and not retting. This soup color is more common in early spring tea. With the continuous aging of raw tea, the green color of the tea soup will gradually disappear, and then slowly evolve into a bright apricot yellow soup color.
2. Yellow-green: The color of the soup is slightly yellowish in green, just like the color of half-ripe oranges, so it is also called “orange-green”. It is the soup color of medium and high-grade sun-dried green tea. Yellow-green tea soup often appears in spring tea.
3. Green-yellow: tea soup with more yellow in the green soup color, similar to light yellow. This soup color can often be seen in sun-dried green tea from Qingming to Guyu.
4. Light yellow: the soup is yellow and light, also called “light yellow”.
5. Orange yellow: The tea soup is slightly reddish in yellow, like orange or orange. Old raw tea with a storage period of 3 to 5 years will have such a soup color, and the brightness is relatively high.
6. Deep yellow: the soup is dark yellow, darker but without much brightness. If the new tea has such a soup color, it is mostly caused by improper processing. If the old raw tea has this kind of soup color, the brightness will be better than that of new tea.
7. Green and dark: the color of the soup is blue, without luster.
8. Darkness: The color of the soup is mixed and dark, which means turbidity. There is a lot of precipitation in the tea soup, which is cloudy and unclear. This kind of tea will feel astringent, blunt and dull when drunk.
9. Red soup: The tea soup is reddish brown. If the old raw tea has a red soup and is crystal clear, it is a rare good tea.
10. Yellow soup: the soup color is too yellow and not green.
Of course, we cannot judge whether this tea is good or not based on its soup color alone. Soup color is only used as a factor in the review.
