Post-fermentation

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- 2014.05.19 at 11:21 am #8647
  
  Manila Tran
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  Thank you for sharing the photos of your Yunnan trip about puer production. I am quite impressed with the size of the factory with piles of tealeaves going through post-fermentation. These are such large piles and quite a few of them. I was not able to see such set up and I think it will be a lot of time before I can visit Yunnan again, but then again, I doubt I can have the connection to see such actions. Your photos are therefore very precious to me.
  
  I have a few questions that perhaps the photos cannot communicate:
  
  What is the smell like when such large amount of tealeaves are growing moulds on them?
  
  Also there is this photo with a patch of lighter color you said is the mould growing, so how come the leaves that the workers are shuffling and you said are towards the end of the process look so dark?
- 2014.05.19 at 9:21 pm #10254
  
  sa11
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  Manila,
  
  Thank you for raising the question.
  
  I have one more question myself:
  
  Why do they have to use those old cloths? Do these cloths carry the fungus for the fermentation? Or just economical?
- 2014.05.21 at 9:11 am #10255
  
  CHAWANG
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  let me answer because i know that too.
  
  good fermentation no strong smell, only little bit good tea smell.
  
  bad fermentation not good smell.
  
  during fermentation change color. fermentation enough darker color.
  
  old sack cloth is good material to cover keeping water and temperature, if no cloth fermentation not good. old sack cloth good to let tea leaves breathe and keeping warm. no use to buy new one, old one is better because no bad new smell and softer to cover tea leaves.
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