Does black tea need to be dried immediately after fermentation?

Black tea needs to be dried in a black tea dryer immediately after fermentation. Fermentation is a unique stage of black tea production. After fermentation, the color of the leaves changes from green to red, forming the quality characteristics of black tea with red leaves and red soup. After fermentation, black tea should be dried quickly or baked Dry, otherwise it will accumulate for too long and produce a rancid smell.

The drying of black tea is a process in which the fermented tea base is put into a high-temperature tea roaster to quickly evaporate the water to achieve a quality-preserving dryness. Its purpose is threefold: to use high temperature to quickly inactivate the activity of enzymes and stop fermentation; to evaporate water, reduce the volume, fix the shape, and maintain dryness to prevent mildew; to emit most of the low-boiling point grass smell, intensify and retain high-boiling point aromatic substances, and obtain The unique sweet aroma of black tea.

How to make black tea

When making black tea, first pick suitable buds and leaves according to the production requirements of black tea, such as single bud, one bud and one leaf, one bud and two leaves, etc. Then spread the fresh leaves evenly and dry them in the sun until they are semi-dry, allowing the fresh leaves to evaporate water appropriately. , enhance toughness and facilitate shaping.

Then the tea leaves are put into a hot pot Tea Frying Pan about 200°C and stir-fried to damage the leaf cells and secrete tea juice, making the tea leaves form tight straight ropes and increasing the concentration of the tea soup. The tea leaves are then placed in a special tea fermentation machine to form the characteristics of red leaves and red soup.

The last step is drying. The drying of black tea is carried out in two times. The first time is rough fire, and the second time is full fire. This allows the black tea to evaporate water, tighten the tea sticks, fix the shape, keep it dry, and disperse the stains on the black tea. Green flavor, retaining the sweet aroma of black tea.