Yanjin Kang Brick Tea

Yanjin Kang Brick Tea

　　   Yanjin Kang Brick Tea is a specialty of Yanjin County in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. It features a brownish color, a pure aroma, a mellow taste, a reddish-brown liquor, and relatively coarse and dull leaf bottoms. It is mainly sold in Tibet.

　　   Yanjin Kang Brick Tea [Yanjin Kang brick tea] is a sun-dried compressed tea produced at the Yanjin Tea Factory in Yunnan. Its main raw material, Jinyu tea, is made by boiling coarse and old tea leaves along with opposite leaves in boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes, then drying them in the sun. The ratio of base materials to additives is 55%–60% base material, 35%–40% additive, and 5% surface tea. The production process includes pile fermentation, high-temperature steam treatment, rolling, heap fermentation, turning the heap, spreading to cool, drying, removing impurities, blending, mixing evenly, steaming, adding surface tea, mechanical pressing into shape, and drying to remove moisture. The finished bricks measure 15.8 cm × 12 cm × 4.7 cm and weigh 500 grams.