I enjoy this drink, but I can only say it is: grassy and slightly bitter. What is your opinion?
Shanez is correct. Asking for the taste of black tea is like asking for the taste of "meat". You need to be more specific about the type otherwise it's a spectrum of potential tastes.Have you tried different black teas? They can vary tremendously in taste.
not as much. White tea isn't fermented at all. Or at least that's what people tell me, never processed tea personally so they could be making things up.Black tea is fermented. Green tea is not.
White tea is specifically unopened bud tips that have been dried fast enough that they don't ferment, but it has not been heated like every other tea so the enzymes which cause oxidation are still present. Therefore, it is slightly more oxidized than green tea.not as much. White tea isn't fermented at all. Or at least that's what people tell me, never processed tea personally so they could be making things up.
and white tea tastes great but does not have much kick at all. Which makes it great for late night when you need a little more get up and go but still want to sleep.White tea is specifically unopened bud tips that have been dried fast enough that they don't ferment, but it has not been heated like every other tea so the enzymes which cause oxidation are still present. Therefore, it is slightly more oxidized than green tea.
Inexpensive tea bag black tea could be orthodox tea, being the finings/dust or the "broken" grades of leaf which came out during whole leaf tea processing. It could also be 'cut tear curl' (CTC) tea which is shredded before fermentation.Thank you for the comments. What I mean is a generic black tea you might commonly find in tea bags, for instance Bigelow.
As there are no tea farms in the UK, this could reflect your dislike for the tea of many different countries, but probably not Chinese tea. Certain teas are more astringent. Chinese tea is generally low in astringency because the Camilia strains grown there are simply that way. Some higher altitude Chinese teas are so smooth that its impossible to overstep them. Yunnan can go 8 minutes no problem.Echoing the above about varieties, but straight black English tea tastes soapy and astringent to me. Love Lapsang Suchong, tastes like a campfire!