The Intriguing Sweetness in Tea - HUI GAN
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Tea connoisseurs always talk about Hui Gan but what exactly is it and what does it mean about the quality of tea? This is the first of a two-part series learning about the sweetness of tea.
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3 mins in and I am blown away by your knowledge and passion for understanding tea. Much respect!
Thanks Jamie!
Yeah he does it all the time. Get yourself subscribed.
@@glynallport7133 Long I have been on this tea-train.
From your description of Hui - Gan characters and history I almost think it could also mean nostalgic. The sweetness of returning home or to a place after a journey.
you know, i absolutely love these videos, maybe most of all. I had no idea about these taste qualities in tea. For me it was always so easy to neglect the after and lingering tastes but after watching this video i feel like you've given me a whole new appreciation for high quality teas and a whole new level of flavour and enjoyment from my brews... and that is priceless! cheers
Your comment about Joy makes sense in terms of the bitter flavour being linked to the Fire element. So both directly to the emotion of Joy, but also calming the Shen
This is an excellent video. The actual sense of sweetness is in effect the absence of bitterness.
I beg to differ.
But there is something sweet going on that is different than that from sugar or other sweeteners. That's a topic I'd like to know more about
Both the Big Leaf and Baby Kuding offerings are superb. "The joy at the end of the journey" is a fitting remark since I most often drink kuding before bed. Sweet dreams! Returning sweetness... 😴😉
not only do i enjoy the videos but also on mei leaf website i have found that they also have pointed out the virus and percautions we can take. thank you mei leaf especially the part about a shot of matcha everyday will help with the current circumstances. as always resourceful, great service and great product. ty mei leaf
So at 2:50 you were giving a subtle hint about your future teaware design!!! :)
When I was looking for something to watch 👏👏👌 very interesting thank you I learned something today🤓
I ordered big leaf and small leaf kuding from you last year. It was so bitter I couldn’t drink it and left it sitting in my cupboard. This video has prompted me to try again 😄
Coincidentally drinking young gushu 2020 while watching this and it's got a lovely hui gan to it
Never tried Kuding- gonna have to!
Great video! Thanks for the info :)
Thank you Donn. Loved the Chinese lesson. Fascinating as always. It made me,a more conciouus tea lover & a more knowledgeable person in general. Mwah.
I have it often on the tea packaging it is written that the tea is herb/bitter and I don't taste anything herb/bitter.
The description was correct and I don't understand herb/bitter or it was incorrect.
I know of bitter vegetables such as arugula and
radicchio. I like radicchio very much, but not the bitterness of arugula.
For Tea, I had that for Mate and Sencha.
Sencha have often written that they are delicately herb/bitter, but for me they taste very mild and not bitter.
I just remembered that sencha packaging says that the tea should be infused at 70/80 degrees Celsius and it is no wonder that the tea then becomes a bit bitter.
I always try sencha at 60 degrees first and if it to lees aroma in the tea I go higher.
Is there actually a difference between herb and bitter? In the case of tea, the packaging reads herb rather than bitter. chocolate is bittersweet
rather than herb sweet.
herb taste could also be derived from herbal.
alternative names that were also shown to me are tart, tangy, austere, severe and dry.
I think this is another case of two words in one language where there is only one word in another language.
In German there is "herb" which is often used for teas and "bitter" for chocolates.
Teas that have the description fresh are more like to have some bitterness, I noticed.
I would like to get a small pack of a strong bitter/herb tea, e.g. Gunpowder to see if I misunderstood herb,
Because then I can also take a cheap tea if it goes in a direction like arugula which I don't like anyway.
If you think that Kuding is bitter, try wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) - absolutely on another level.
elosozelo That is so true. Wormwood is an extremely bitter herb but it will cure whatever ails you for sure!!!!!☺️
Interesting. I've bought Big Leaf Kuding a few times so went and tried it again after viewing this video. I have to say that, the flavours did change.....but I was left with a persistent taste of bitterness across my mouth :(
Love ku ding!!!
Electric, Don I love that.
Water temp for ku ding brewing?
Thank you, very insightful. You actually can get as a speaker more credibility if you observe your accentuating on every part of every word; choosing wisely only one or two in a phrase might be more afortunate, it is habit and makes a little of trouble at first. Otherwise we experience an inflation and therefore less and less credibility. Thank you anyway! Take care with your health these days!
I've been drinking quality whole leaf tea for 2 years now and I must say I'm yet to be convinced that HuiGan is more that just a poetic concept. To me it seems that if the tea is bitter then the bitterness either fades away quickly or it persists. I don't think it transforms into any kind of sweetness. My theory is that the Chinese came up with this concept because it was easier to believe that they were actually drinking something good rather then something bad.
I'm still open-minded and maybe I'll experience HuiGan some day in the future.
What kind of tea are you drinking? I think it's a concept yeah, but those moments when you're drinking a tea and your mouth starts to pucker and you get that sweetness that's just comes into your mouth and the coating is probably Hui Gan. I think you just know when it happens.
@@DrawAndErase I drink all sorts of tea including Sheng Pu'er. As you said, you should just know when it happens. It hasn't happened to me yet.
Not a concept. It's an aftertaste of sweet flavour that can stick around for quite some time after drinking.
Not all teas have it and sometimes you might feel it and sometimes not. I dont know how it works... but it's real so Is tea drunkenness and such.
These effects are a bonus and dont effect everyone the same.
It's all part of the fun
It definitely can happen, I went on a trip to China a few years ago and we went for a tea tasting ceremony, the second tea I tried I will never forget it... it tasted like a herbal tea slightly bitter but once I’d swallowed it my entire throat felt coated in this sweetness that I can still remember now, it was lovely probably the best drink I’ve ever had I didn’t even want to try the other teas and ruin the feeling!
@@DrawAndErase if your mouth starts to pucker, I'd say that bitterness. I don't associate puckering with the sensation of sweetness
i don't want to take away from the informative video and channel here, but i 'm curious if are there any other good, informative tea channels besides this one? the searches i make on youtube give me very sparse, unsatisfying results or gossip channels.
What do you think about ocha and co green tea? Is there any other companies you recommend in that price range?
he literally has his own brand selling tea. he is not gonna recommend a different one lol
I wonder if this video will get demonetized for saying "gun" too many times.