Do you like to drink puer tea? What do you think of it? If you like, do you know how to identify puer tea? Next let me keep you informed of the following methods of identifying puer tea as much as i can.
First of all, smell fragrance. Cooked puer tea can produce a kind of ripe taste because it is made through pile fermentation. In general, dry cooked puer tea can be smelt a kind of ripe tea taste from the appearance of puer tea when being stored within ten years. Between around ten years and twenty years, this kind of surface ripe tea taste has already disappeared and can be felt from puer tea water. As for tambac, it is the best ripe tea fragrance.
Secondly, dry puer raw tea water is chestnut red, but ripe puer tea water is dark maroon and even close to black. Thus you can well identify the color of puer tea water to know puer tea.
Thirdly, dry puer raw tea leaves are maroon and deep maroon as well as with plump and soft leave strips, so they are filled with the feeling of freshness. However, ripe puer tea leaves are dark chestnut or black and with dry and skinny, old and hard leave strips. If they are heavily fermented, the color of them has obvious charring. If they are not heavily fermented, the color of them is also quite close to the color of puer raw tea leaves.
Therefore, choose and purchase your suitable puer tea after viewing all above significant information.