2. Topics Covered
• Tea Tasting
• Green Tea (Types & Manufacturing process)
• Instant Tea Processing
• Organic Tea
• Semi-Fermented Tea
• Quality control of Tea
3. Tea Tasting
• A skill to recognise the key flavour notes and identify
different tea blends
4. Preparation for Tea Tasting
• 3g of tea for 6 ounces of water at
180℉ steeped for 2 minute
• To pull every bit of aroma, flavor
and from the leaf
5. Tea Tasting
Aroma:
90% of what we taste is what
we smell. Take a deep, long inhale
as you bring the tea to your mouth.
Slurp:
Allows to touch every part of
your palette, giving you full range
to its flavor.
Spit:
Spit it all out to avoid over
consumption of liquid throughout
the day.
6. Green tea
• Green tea is made from the leaves of Camellia sinensis that have
undergone a process of steaming, multiple rolling and drying.
7. Types of Green Tea
• Sencha: made from smaller leaves,
has highest polyphenol
concentration
• Macha: used in traditional
Japanese green tea ceremony
• Bancha: slightly stronger, lowest
caffeine content
8. Types of Green Tea
• Gunpowder: slightly
smoky flavor, high in
fluoride content
• Gyokuro: made from flush
leaf, greener color
9. Processing of Green Tea
Handpicking Steaming Pre-drying
Sifting/Grading Post-drying Rolling
10. Processing of Instant Tea
Selection of
raw materials
Extraction Stripping
Tea creamingConcentrationDrying
11. Organic Tea
• Produced without the use of
synthetic fertilizers,
pesticides, or other
chemicals
• Certification confirms the
avoidance of synthetic
chemicals
12. Semi Fermented Tea
• Chlorophyll in the tea
destroyed
• Completion of 20% to 70%
fermentation
13. Quality Control of Tea
• Cleaning of fresh leaf
• Microbial contamination
• Hygiene in manufacturing process
• Fermentation room
• Drying and packing
• Waste management
• Certification in quality control