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Summary: Briskness is way of describing the bitterness in tea. Learn how to evaluate a tea's briskness in this free tea video about how to taste tea.
Matt Graham discovered loose tea on a trip to The People's Republic of China in 2001. For the past seven years, Matt has continued his exploration into the world of tea. A daily...read more
"Okay, we're talking about cupping tea, and we're at the step where we actually get to take a full drink of the tea. And the first thing you're going to look for when you take a drink of the tea, is briskness. Now, yeah, briskness is not something in the tea world you're associating with cold or some of those other settings where you may have used the word brisk to describe something you're feeling. When we talk about briskness with tea, what we mean is sort of a slightly astringent quality, almost a bitterness to the tea. It's kind of the tea's bite, and it'll probably get you in the back of the tongue where you taste bitter type of flavors. And the briskness is going to, it should make you pucker a little bit, if the tea has a nice briskness. "
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