Types Of Tea

As one of the three major beverages in the world, tea has extremely various categories. But when we talk about tea, the most we mention are green tea, black tea, matcha, and so on. It sounds like there are just a few types of tea.

Different kinds of tea have different flavors, brewing ways, and health benefits. To better enable people to find the most suitable tea for themselves, scholars and tea lovers have made a general classification according to the differences among various kinds of tea.

Here are the 7 main types of tea.

Green Tea

Green tea is the most common, and Matcha is also a kind of green tea. Green tea is also called non-fermented tea because of the least processed and has not been fermented. It retains the green color of the plant itself, and the tea after brewed also shows green.

Green Tea

Black Tea

Black tea belongs to complete-fermented tea, it’s popular in Europe and Asian. Because the tea has been completely fermented, it does not have a fresh and bitter taste like the green tea, it tastes very mellow. Also, black tea has a high degree of matching with other ingredients, many tea drinks are made based on black tea.

Black Tea

Dark Tea

Dark tea belongs to post-fermented tea, and it usually sold as tea bricks. Pu’er tea is the most common dark tea. The aging taste is the feature of dark tea. It comes from the long-time aging and fermentation of the tea bricks, in which the ingredients in tea have been qualitative change. Due to the surface of tea is dark, so it called dark tea.

Dark Tea

Oolong Tea

Oolong tea belongs to partial-fermented tea, which has both the fresh taste of green tea and the mellow taste of black tea. Oolong tea is mainly produced in China and is also one of the most well-known Chinese tea.

Oolong Tea

White Tea

White tea belongs to low-fermented tea, usually made from the tender tea leaves and buds. Because there is much fine white fuzz on the surface, it looks like a layer of snow, so it called white tea. The white fuzz is the essence of white tea, do not wash it off as impurities when brewing.

White Tea

Yellow Tea

Yellow tea is a kind of low-fermented tea just like white tea. Its processing method and green tea are about the same, the difference is there will be braised after fixation, make the tea leaves be a low fermented and turn yellow. The tea after brewed also shows yellow.

Yellow Tea

Herbal Tea

Strictly, herbal tea does not belong to the tea, because they are not made from the tea leaves but made from various flower or herbal. It makes most kinds of herbal tea do not contain caffeine. The types of herbal tea also various and can be mix brew to get more benefits.

Herbal Tea
Desmond
Just a tea lover. Like to try different types of tea. Do not matter if the brewing is perfect, only enjoy the various charming taste.
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