How to brew Jin Jun Mei tea

Jin Jun Mei is small and compact. Its color is gold, yellow and black. The golden color is the hair and tender buds of the tea. The tea leaves are tight and slender, round and straight, with sharp tips, heavy bones and evenness. The tea soup is golden in color, with sweetness in the water, fragrance in the sweetness, and floral and fruity fragrance at the bottom of the cup, which are rare and precious qualities that cannot be imitated or surpassed. The aroma is special, the dry tea has a fresh aroma; the hot soup has a refreshing and pure aroma; the warm soup (about 45℃) has a delicate and cooked aroma; the cold soup is clear and elegant, noble and lasting. Whether it is hot or cold, it is smooth and has the characteristics of “clear, harmonious, mellow, thick and fragrant”. After 12 consecutive brews, the taste is still full and sweet. After the leaves are stretched, the buds are fresh, straight and bright.

Jin Jun Mei

How to brew Jin Jun Mei tea

1. Utensil selection

It is recommended to use a Kung Fu tea white porcelain cup set or a transparent glass cup, so that you can enjoy the elegant fragrance of Jin Jun Mei tea when brewing, and appreciate the graceful posture of Jin Jun Mei buds stretching in the water and the crystal clear tea soup.

2. Water temperature control

The water temperature for brewing black tea is conducive to the leaching of the aroma, taste and rich contents of Jin Jun Mei tea. Jin Jun Mei made with tea buds needs to wait until the boiling water cools to 80-90 degrees Celsius before brewing. The first brew is to wash the tea quickly, wash the cup and smell the fragrance. The duration of the first to tenth brews is about: 15 seconds, 25 seconds, 35 seconds, 45 seconds, 1 minute, 1 minute 10 seconds, 1 minute 20 seconds, 1 minute 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 2 minutes 30 seconds.

3. Tea quantity control

It is recommended to put 3 grams of Jin Jun Mei dry tea for more than 12 consecutive brews.

4. Brewing skills

After putting Jin Jun Mei in for warming and washing tea, in order to protect the fluff on the surface of the delicate tea buds and avoid the tea leaves from rolling violently in the cup, water should be poured in thinly along the wall of the white porcelain covered bowl or glass cup to ensure the clarity and brightness of the tea soup.

Jin Jun Mei

5. Drinking techniques

After the first pouring of boiling water, Jin Jun Mei should be left in the cup for about 5 seconds, and then each brewing can be extended for 5 seconds. When there are more than ten brews in the later period, the water can be reheated to boiling.

6. Water quality selection

Use “soft water” with low calcium and magnesium content such as mountain spring water, well water, purified water, etc., and brew with fresh water, colorless and tasteless water with high oxygen content.

7. Purchasing skills

The dry tea of ​​high-quality Jin Jun Mei tea has a pure aroma, with floral and fruity aroma, and the aroma is fresh, elegant and delicate. Inferior tea has peculiar smells such as salty and earthy. In appearance, high-quality dry tea has a unique and uniform color, golden and black, black and yellow, oily and fresh, shiny, white hairs are exposed, the tea leaves are strong and tight, straight and slightly curved, like a seahorse, and are uniform without tea dust and debris.

8. Tips

If you want the tea to be more fragrant, use high temperature and high pouring. High pouring can make the tea leaves fully soaked under the agitation of water, so as to fully develop the color, aroma and taste; if you want the tea to be sweeter, just cool the water for a while, then pour it into the pot carefully, treat the tea leaves gently, and it will be sweeter.

How many times can Jin Jun Mei be brewed?

Generally speaking, ordinary Jin Jun Mei can be brewed six or seven times. And for better and more expensive Jin Jun Mei, it is no problem to brew it ten times. In short, Jin Jun Mei can keep its fragrance until thirteen brews, but the editor recommends brewing it ten times. After all, tea leaves that have been brewed for more than ten times basically have no taste. But if you like to drink very light tea, you can continue to brew it, and the aftertaste is still quite good.

However, how many times Jin Jun Mei can be brewed depends on the amount of tea. If the water is good and still boiling, 3 grams of authentic Jin Jun Mei can be brewed 12 times, and the soup color is still golden and has tea fragrance. It is recommended to brew for 15 seconds for the first brew, 25 seconds for the second brew, 35 seconds for the third brew, 45 seconds for the fourth brew, and 1 minute for the fifth brew. The time for each brew increases by ten seconds, and so on, it will be 1 minute and 30 seconds by the eighth brew. The ninth brew is 2 minutes, and each brew increases by 30 seconds, and it will be 3 minutes and 40 seconds by the twelfth brew! High-quality Wuyishan Jin Jun Mei black tea should be brewed more than 12 times.