Tea Processing and Prepartation

1. Bug-bitten tea
7. Most often considered the least processed tea (withering and drying)
8. the process where enzymes in the tea leaves break down from exposure to the air
10. Pine or Cypress smoked tea
11. Chinese name for raw puer
14. Puer storage in hong Kong
15. Tool needed to froth your Matcha
18. Matcha tea capital near Kyoto
19. Unglazed clay tea pots from Jiangsu province
20. Dark tea in Chinese
22. Name for Japanese tea ceremony
23. this type of Puer is most often aged to enhance flavor
24. Stone ground green tea
29. less oxidized than black more oxidized than white
30. Our fave camellia
32. Tea most often infused at 180 degrees F (80C)
35. Japanese tea that included roasted brown rice
37. A microbial process unique to Puer tea and some other dark teas
38. Rare type of delicate Chinese tea that includes a piling process. (not Puer)
39. This tea type is often steamed and pressed into cakes
40. This brewing style leaves the leaves just floating in the cup

2. Along with caffeine this polyphenol makes tea bitter
3. Tea producing country that is home to Sun Moon Lake
4. Method used to halt oxidation in green tea by pan-frying, steaming, baking or roasting
5. Melon seed tea
6. Fully oxidized tea
8. many of these teas are rolled and charcoal roasted
9. Preprocessed loose leaf Puer
12. cleanest tea vessel material
13. Believed to be the origin city of Gong Fu tea brewing method
16. Japanese green tea that is roasted over charcoal
17. the six great tea mountains of Yunnan are located in this region
21. Delicate nutty flat leaved green tea Hangzhou region in Zhejiang province, China
25. Next step after picking and sorting the leaves
26. The finger tapping salute was born out of the travels of this emperor
27. Causes a dry puckering sensation in the mouth. Caused by tannins
28. Wet piled puer for fast fermentation
31. Chinese tea vessel with a bowl and a lid
33. This uplifting psychoactive stimulant diminishes with post fermented aging and increases with steep time
34. black tea in Chinese
36. 1970's Puer Wet piling process