Tea Rinsing

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So when does a rinse required when you're making a tea? This is a sample of a puer black tea that I just made, and do you notice it's a bit cloudy? Puer tea is a tea that you let interact with the air because it's a living tea, and in that case it has some dust that accumulates. So what you always have to do is make a quick rinse, brew it for a second or so, and dump out the water, and then make your next cup of tea. And the brew is actually a lot clearer once you do that rinse. The other tea I recommend rinsing is the oolong tea, it's sitting right here. What the rinse does, when I speak of a rinse in a puer or certain black teas, it means getting out some of the dust particles that might be built up, but the rinse in an oolong is not really a rinse, it's called an activation of the leaves. It's also the same for any tea, green tea that's been rolled into smaller pellets. The activation of leaves mean these leaves have been rolled really, really tightly, and if you put it in water, it might not open completely, but when you put a very quick rinse of these leaves, it opens up a little bit so that when your second brew, the full flavor of the tea comes out and you get a better cup that way.

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