If you have brewed tea at home a handful of times, you might have already realized that sometimes a pot of tea just don’t taste like the aromatic pot you’ve had the other day.
You took the same steps as that “other” time. Yet the taste and flavor just don’t seem to match up.
What went wrong?
Tea masters and tea lovers might insist that the quality of tea leaves depends on judgment from experience.
There is some truth in that.
But the fact of the matter is like coffee and wine, tea grading is done to categorize tea leaves so that they can be differentiated more easily and distributed to different markets.
Green tea is not just a pleasure to taste, but also loaded with compounds tied with a whole host of health benefits.
It is no wonder it is probably the most loved tea in the world.
While you can probably just walk into a tea house and order green tea, if you are into refining your tastes buds in regards to green tea, then surely you must get acquainted with the various types of green tea that are available today.
While tea lovers continue to explore ideas of blending and brewing to enhance the tea-drinking experience, many don’t even think about the most obvious factor to experiment with.
And that is the type of water for brewing tea.
The difference in taste is something is something that is hard to describe with words.