Answers to some questions about drinking Pu'er tea

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Now more and more people are beginning to fall in love with Pu'er tea. Do you have such questions when drinking Pu'er tea? Have you encountered any of the following?

When drinking Pu’er tea, why can’t I taste the same taste as last time?

Many tea drinkers have also encountered this problem. This phenomenon may be caused by the following situations.


If you brew Pu'er tea in a different place, the taste will be different.

For example, if you buy Pu'er tea in Yunnan and then brew it in Guangdong or other provinces, it will taste different. This is normal. It may be that the water is different, and the quality of water produced in different places is different. The tea brewed with different water will definitely have a different taste.

Different people have different brewing methods. This has something to do with personal brewing habits. People are different and the brewing methods are different, so the taste must be different. And even if the same person brews Pu'er tea, the tea taste will be different if the amount of tea added each time is not fixed.

There is also the issue of altitude. For example, the boiling point of water in Kunming is about 95 degrees, but in Guangdong or low-altitude areas it can boil to 99 or 100 degrees, so the tea brewed will definitely taste different.

In the same place, the taste will be different depending on the brewing time.

When the weather is dry, the aroma of the tea will be very good, but if the air humidity is high on a rainy day, the aroma of the tea will be slightly worse.

The influence of your own taste. For example, drinking tea after eating spicy or sweet food will have different feelings about the taste of tea.


Different tea sets, such as using a tureen and a purple clay teapot to brew Pu'er tea. If the characteristics of each tea set are not well grasped, the brewed taste will also be different.

I feel very hungry after drinking raw Pu’er tea. What’s going on?

I believe that most people feel the more they drink tea, the hungrier they become. Not just Pu'er tea, but most teas will have this feeling, but the severity is different.

From personal experience, raw Pu'er tea is the most fermented, followed by various green teas produced in Yunnan, green tea from Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Henan and other places, and fermented tea such as black tea and ripe Pu'er tea are the least severe. Why is this?

The feeling of hunger after drinking tea is mainly caused by the alkali substances contained in tea stimulating the gastrointestinal tract, increasing the secretion of digestive juices including gastric acid, and increasing the frequency of gastrointestinal motility. The decrease in blood sugar after drinking tea can also trigger people's appetite.

Since Pu'er raw tea contains much more substances than other green teas, drinking Pu'er raw tea is more likely to cause hunger and hypoglycemia. It is best to prepare a little sugar when drinking Pu'er raw tea, in case someone has poor adaptability and causes hypoglycemia.

When drinking tea, do you feel that your taste is getting heavier and heavier?


According to my understanding, there may be two situations when drinking tea with a strong taste. The first is that the more you drink, the stronger the taste becomes. The second is that you become obsessed with Pu'er as you drink.

Let’s look at the first situation first. It’s mainly men, especially long-distance drivers, heavy manual laborers, and middle-aged men who often stay up late and work overtime. You can see that they often hold a large teacup in their hands. The tea leaves in it account for more than half of the cup. The color of the tea soup is very deep and strong, and the taste is very strong. Most people cannot drink it.

The second situation is that ordinary tea drinkers start by drinking relatively light teas such as Longjing, Maofeng and Biluochun. After slowly being exposed to Pu'er tea, they will be captured by Pu'er. This is because Pu'er tea will produce relatively drastic changes in the mouth. For example, when you drink it, it will be bitter and astringent, but after a while it will become very sweet and make your mouth full of saliva. This is the so-called "bitterness produces sweetness, astringency produces salivation". And as time goes by, the aroma and flavor of Pu'er tea will change differently. This is the "more fragrant and fragrant" of Pu'er tea.


Pu'er tea also has a very attractive feature that other teas do not have, that is, its taste, flavor, and aroma are very rich in types. It can be said that all the natural flavors that you often come into contact with can be tasted in Pu'er tea. One mountain, one hundred villages, one hundred flavors, or even tea grown in the same land will have different flavors.

This is so magical, attracting more and more tea lovers to constantly search for and try various endless flavors.

These are the reasons why Pu'er tea is becoming more and more popular among people. Its characteristics are irreplaceable. Therefore, there is a saying that "drinking tea and playing with tea are the end when you reach Pu'er tea." Pu'er tea is the ultimate goal for most tea lovers to drink tea, appreciate tea, play with tea and experience Chinese tea culture.