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Bai Hao Yin Zhen

The production process of Baihao Silver Needle varies slightly in terms of production method and quality depending on the place of origin. Fuding Silver Needle was also called “North Road Silver Needle” in the early days. Pick a cool, sunny day, the fresh needle thinly spread in the withering curtain, placed in the sunlight exposure, when the moisture content of 10-20%, spread on the baking cage (baking heart plate with thin paper liner, to prevent the buds and hairs burn yellow), with the fire (40-50 ℃) baked to full dry. White hairs silver needle also known as “South Road silver needle”, fresh needles spread on the water sieve, placed in a ventilated place, drying until the moisture content of 20-30%, moved to the hot sun dry. On sunny days, it can also be sun-dried first and then air-dried. Hair tea by picking good for fine tea, re-fire after boxing while hot.

The harvesting of white hair silver needle tea tree, every autumn and winter to strengthen the fertilization management to cultivate strong buds. The following year harvesting to spring tea first one, two rounds of the top buds of the best quality, to three, four rounds after most of the inverted buds, thinner and smaller. The first round of spring buds sprouted after the renewal of the mowing is particularly fat and strong, and is the ideal raw material for the manufacture of high-quality white hair silver needle. Summer and autumn tea buds thin and small, does not meet the requirements of the white hair silver needle raw materials, generally not harvested.

Baihao silver needle picking is very careful, extremely strict requirements, the provisions of the rainy day not to pick, dew is not dry not to pick, thin buds not to pick, purple buds not to pick, wind injury buds not to pick, artificial damage buds not to pick, insect injury buds not to pick, happy buds not to pick, hollow buds not to pick, sick buds not to pick, known as ten not to pick. Only pick fat single buds, if you pick back a bud of one or two leaves of the new tip, only pick the heart of the bud, commonly known as the needle (that is, a mower of one or two leaves on the bud pinch off, pull out the raw material for the silver needle, the remaining stems and leaves for other white tea or other tea flowers).

The picked tea buds are required to be sent back to the factory for processing in time. The production method of Bai Hao Yinzhen is special and the process is simple. The production process, no frying and no kneading, only two processes of withering and baking, which is mainly withering and drying, so that the natural slow change of tea buds, the formation of white tea special quality style. The specific production method is: the picked tea buds, thinly spread on the bamboo sieve with holes, placed in the weak sunlight withering, spread in the sun to 70%, 80% dry, and then moved to the hot sun to the full dry. There are also withered in weak sunlight for two hours, then withered indoors until 80% or 90% dry, and then baked over a gentle fire until fully dry. There are also directly exposed to the sun until 80% or 90% dry, and then baked over a gentle fire until the full fill. In the withering, drying process, according to the degree of water loss of tea buds to adjust, although the process is simple, it is not easy to master correctly, especially to make good tea, more difficult than other types of tea.

Processed silver needle finished tea buds fat, full of white velvet, bright white color, shimmering like silver, long and straight, such as ribs like needles, soup color is clear and crystal clear, light apricot yellow, the entrance of the fragrance of the hairs show, sweet and fresh.  

 


Post time: Apr-06-2023
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