蓋碗

你都用什麼茶具泡茶呢？
馬克杯？玻璃杯？飄逸杯？茶壺？

有沒有用過蓋碗啊？

花樣好像是20年前流行的蓋碗:)

也有人稱之為蓋杯，因為是要拿來泡茶的！
不過，蓋碗的名字其來有自，
如果你把它的蓋子和下面的淺碟拿走，身體的大小的確可以當碗來用呢........:)

前不久去鶯歌找尋蓋碗，順便拜訪許久未見的廠商朋友，聊著聊著才知道，蓋碗已經沒什麼人在買了，看看朋友的茶具庫存，竟然一個蓋碗也沒有................驚覺，在山中度日，果然會渾然不知外界的變化.......o_O

逛著陶瓷老街，店鋪裡的蓋碗越做越小，越來越像杯子，真的只能稱之為蓋杯了........



白色的碗底適合欣賞茶湯色

 蓋碗的實用性和方便性，真的教人喜愛........:)

可以直接沖泡茶葉，待茶葉舒展開來，然後用蓋子稍微擋住茶葉，就可以直接飲用.........:)

可以代替茶壺，而且可以讓輕發酵輕焙火的茶款，揚出更新鮮迷人的茶葉香氣........:))
※使用蓋碗代替茶壺，需要一點手法上的小技巧，習慣就好

拿開蓋子，就可以清楚看到在水中悠遊的茶葉，很棒吧！

蓋碗很棒的地方，還有一個，就是清除茶渣非常方便，一倒就乾乾淨淨................lol


附註說明：
適合使用蓋碗的茶葉有....
碧螺春綠茶   輕焙火烏龍 頂級  輕焙火烏龍  輕焙火金萱  香片

※著重口感的茶款比較不適合使用蓋碗沖泡。因為瓷器散熱較快，且蓋碗碗口較廣，雖然香氣會較佳，可是比較無法將重焙火或重發酵的茶葉滋味完全提出。

A practical tea set to make beautiful tea soup

People used to think about having a tea pot immediately while they want to make a cup of tea.
In fact, only one tea pot is not enough to drink a cup of tea, and it needs a whole tea set to make a cup of tea. A tea set includes a tea pot, a teacup, and few tea cups at least.

So, how about have a practical teacup?
like this........

practical teacup (with a lid and a saucer)

This teacup is good at brewing green tea, jasmine tea, light baked oolong tea, and high mountain oolong tea.
Becasue the material of this teacup is porcelain, and it could reveal the smells of tea powerfully.

Of course it could also be used to brew heavy baked oolong tea or Pu-Er tea, but the flavours of these kinds of tea could not be released completely, by porcelain.

Why is this porcelain teacup so practical?..........:)
1. It could replace a tea pot absolutely.


beautiful color of tea soup



2. It could reveal the best smell of all kinds of tea.

3. It is convenient to enjoy the sight of spreading tea leaves and beautiful color of tea soup.

4. It could be used as a normal tea cup with tea leaves in it.
    (you could separate tea leaves with the lid)

5. It is easy to clean..........what a wonderful advantage:) !!

6. It is cheaper than a tea set, even a tea pot, usually.

7. It .............................................

There are more practical points of it, and we leave them to you to find out with surprise...........:)

比較迷你的小包

迷你輕焙火烏龍 頂級

別看照片上，看起來好像很大包
實際尺寸是寬5cm*高5cm*厚3cm

應朋友的服務要求
特地將他買的1斤 輕焙火烏龍 頂級 分裝成一兩包(1包只有37.5g)

步驟如下：
1. 選用霧面鋁箔袋，先放入一包50c.c.的脫氧劑，然後再溫柔的裝入足量的頂級烏龍茶葉；
2. 刻意不抽真空就封口，等脫氧劑發揮效將氧氣吸收後，鋁箔袋就會稍微的收縮，留下鈍鈍的氮氣；

因為，不是硬梆梆的茶葉鋁箔包裝，這樣茶葉在遭受擠壓撞擊的時候，就不容易受傷了。

希望朋友收到了會喜歡我們的貼心........:)
每次只開封少量的茶葉，這樣茶葉可以保存的更好........
這樣一包的金錢價值，可是要快XXX元呢！

友情無價........:D

就是比較大包



茶農的公版包裝，硬是比別包多了1/5高度

這是今年五月春天，採收自阿里山上的金萱茶
阿里山的金萱茶是很有名的。

這批金萱茶是當初我們製作三角粽型茶包樣品的原料。選擇它的原因無他，就是夠香醇又好喝。只是有個地方怎麼看都覺得怪怪的，就是它半斤包裝起來，比別人大包........0_0

比別人大包的原因是........製作這批茶葉的茶農，揉捻的時候沒有揉到緊實，所以每一顆茶葉都大一點點。

萎凋走水、發酵殺青、揉捻乾燥，每一個步驟都影響到茶葉最後的成型，這次的揉不緊實就是因為後期茶葉太乾，所以無法更加揉實，如果硬要揉成一般大小就會將茶葉揉碎，所以最後就以這大一號的茶葉來出品了。

通常，茶農為了順利售出這款其貌不揚、品質奇佳的金萱茶，會和其他外表姣好的、品質平平的金萱茶合堆，如此一來，或許香氣和滋味會因此稍微弱了點，但是茶乾的長相就不再是問題了.......

記得茶書上說，買茶葉第一步就是要看茶乾的樣子，如果不好看，通常@#&%..........

於是，我們把它通通買了起來........:)

不是我們反骨
是因為....這款金萱茶，它的製作過程遭遇許多困難，但是在經過經驗豐富、手藝高超的製茶師傅細心的製作調整後，竟然最終能夠展現這令人驚艷的茶香與滋味，我們當然應該要品嘗這款金萱茶的純粹美味........
而........它只是長的不一樣而已         :))






購買BUY

Tea & Wine

烏龍茶 Oolong tea

Every time, after reading some comic books which talk about how to understand and enjoy different kinds of wines, I always think deeply why people cannot drink tea in this way........

Tea trees and grapes are all plants. They are all taken care by sunshine, rain, temperature, soil, and all this kinds of natural elements. It means we cannot control these natural elements, but follow the elements to supply the lacks.

I don't know wines well, but I could understand that some wines tasted worse than average because of severe weather or barren years. Even wines take few years to ripen in oak barrels, the defects could not be cover or fix complitely all the time. Fortunately people could comprehend with it and accept it.

Tea is same as wine, but the difference between tea and wine is making tea just takes few days, not years. If the weather was too hot or too cold, tea leaves might grow too fast to lose flavor, or too slow to lose fragrance, and there are many situations like this. According to these phenomenons, tea leaves SHOULD be worse than average ( or better than average ) sometimes. It is agriculture. It is a plant. It is natural.

All of us have to realize the fact and accept it further, then finally the market of tea could be trusted and people who are interested in tea could really enjoy th world of tea.