Long Jing First

Kai Hua Long Ding

TaiPing HouKui

Bi Luo Chun

(Jiangsu Province)

Conseils Hojo Akira

L'eau et son importance flagrante

sur les liqueurs

de thés fins tels les plus beaux

Verts

et le résultat

en tasse.


Ceci est d'autant plus valable

pour les délicats thés blancs.

Water

It is also advisable not to use fresh tap water.

The intensity of after taste becomes stronger if water is kept overnight.
Keeping water with stones or inside clay jar will increase the content of minerals.
However, you need to confirm whether or not the water kept inside particular jar or with stone is suitable with your tea or tea equipment (such as teapot).

If water jar carries certain minerals like copper or zinc, it will rather spoil the taste and flavor of tea.
For this, you need to confirm with experiment on try and error basis.

For boiling water, please do not use aluminum or copper kettle. It spoils the taste of water. We suggest using kettle made of iron, stainless steel, tin or glass.

In the long run, you may observe a thick layer of scale accumulated inside your kettle.

Our mother usually taught us to wash and remove it with citric acid. But please do not even try to remove the scale.

Scale consists of minerals that exist in the water.

The mineral composition is reflected from the water you used. If you remove the scale, the mineral ion balance between scale and water is destroyed.

This balance is called buffer effect in science.

The flavor and taste will seriously run out and you won’t be able to get previous taste and flavor for a long time.

It is also important to stick to the same type of water whenever brewing tea.

If source of water is changed, it carries different type of minerals.

It will affect the mineral ion balance too.

White Tea "Silver Needle Hojo"

(Fujian)

To enjoy Silver Needle with a well balanced aroma and flavor, the suitable teapot for Silver Needle is red clay teapot.

Make sure to rinse the tea pot with boiling water for about 10-20 seconds in order to warm it up.

Use 3g of tea leaves for 150ml of water.
Quickly rinse the tea leaves with 80 degree Celsius of hot water.

Gently pour hot water 80-85 degree Celsius into the teapot, let it brew for 1-2 minutes.

For 2nd brewing, please keep the brewing time exactly the half the time of the 1st brewing.