Tea Processing and Prepartation

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Across
  1. 1. Bug-bitten tea
  2. 7. Most often considered the least processed tea (withering and drying)
  3. 8. the process where enzymes in the tea leaves break down from exposure to the air
  4. 10. Pine or Cypress smoked tea
  5. 11. Chinese name for raw puer
  6. 14. Puer storage in hong Kong
  7. 15. Tool needed to froth your Matcha
  8. 18. Matcha tea capital near Kyoto
  9. 19. Unglazed clay tea pots from Jiangsu province
  10. 20. Dark tea in Chinese
  11. 22. Name for Japanese tea ceremony
  12. 23. this type of Puer is most often aged to enhance flavor
  13. 24. Stone ground green tea
  14. 29. less oxidized than black more oxidized than white
  15. 30. Our fave camellia
  16. 32. Tea most often infused at 180 degrees F (80C)
  17. 35. Japanese tea that included roasted brown rice
  18. 37. A microbial process unique to Puer tea and some other dark teas
  19. 38. Rare type of delicate Chinese tea that includes a piling process. (not Puer)
  20. 39. This tea type is often steamed and pressed into cakes
  21. 40. This brewing style leaves the leaves just floating in the cup
Down
  1. 2. Along with caffeine this polyphenol makes tea bitter
  2. 3. Tea producing country that is home to Sun Moon Lake
  3. 4. Method used to halt oxidation in green tea by pan-frying, steaming, baking or roasting
  4. 5. Melon seed tea
  5. 6. Fully oxidized tea
  6. 8. many of these teas are rolled and charcoal roasted
  7. 9. Preprocessed loose leaf Puer
  8. 12. cleanest tea vessel material
  9. 13. Believed to be the origin city of Gong Fu tea brewing method
  10. 16. Japanese green tea that is roasted over charcoal
  11. 17. the six great tea mountains of Yunnan are located in this region
  12. 21. Delicate nutty flat leaved green tea Hangzhou region in Zhejiang province, China
  13. 25. Next step after picking and sorting the leaves
  14. 26. The finger tapping salute was born out of the travels of this emperor
  15. 27. Causes a dry puckering sensation in the mouth. Caused by tannins
  16. 28. Wet piled puer for fast fermentation
  17. 31. Chinese tea vessel with a bowl and a lid
  18. 33. This uplifting psychoactive stimulant diminishes with post fermented aging and increases with steep time
  19. 34. black tea in Chinese
  20. 36. 1970's Puer Wet piling process