Taste your Tea

The taste of the tea isn't the simply essential thing when drinking a cuppa. Tea can be made even more enjoyable by using all the senses. You can use your touch, scent, sight, and even sound to make your tea drinking experience more outstanding and relaxing. Here is how you can use your senses to make your tea tasting an art.

Before you brew your tea, use your fingers to touch and feel the leaves. Think about how the leaves feel and smell them. Feel the warmth of the water you are brewing. You can determine the temperature of a pot of warm water just by touching it. Our bodies are around 98 degrees at room temperature so when you touch a pot of warm water and it feel the same as your hand, the water is around 98 degrees as well. You can use this marker to figure out if the water is hotter or cooler than that temperature.

Tea is a impressive way to relax. Tea helps to calm the mind the body and the spirit.

Knowing some terms is likewise a good way to enjoy your tea even more.

Astringency

This is used to describe how thirst quenching the tea is. Much like red wine, the astringency is the dry and refreshing sensation that is caused by the tannins. Briskness and bite likewise fall under this.

Biscuity

This flavor is sweet and malted like baked bread and found in countless black teas. You can likewise describe smoke and toasty as two things that fall under this.

Citrusy, fruity, and flowery

Tea can taste floral or fruity depending on the leaves and the combination of leaves used.

Complexity

This is the combination and relationship between the different tastes. You tea might be sweet then tart. Your tea might even leave a different aftertaste.

Strength

This refers to the intensity of the aroma, taste, and color of your tea. This varies as a result of how lengthy the tea is steeped, how much tea is used, and the temperature of the water.

Vegetal

This is a grassy or herby flavor that can often be tasted in green teas.