How to drink green tea? The flavorful and healthy beverage, richly nourished with anti-oxidants is nature’s choicest medicine. Green tea traces its origin to China but has become popular worldwide because of the health and taste quotient it carries.
Before getting down to brewing and sipping your green tea, you need to be equipped with the knowledge of the perfect brewing to make the perfect green tea.

Well, how to drink tea, follows the precedent set by how to make green tea.

•    While choosing your green tea,  make sure you buy the loose green tea leaves, as these give out the fullest flavor, while boiling.

•    Make sure that you allow your water to boil at least up to 160 degrees Fahrenheit to give the right temperature to your tea leaves to bob and bubble, without getting shriveled in excess heat.

•    Once your water and tea leaves are ready, here are a few tips on how to drink green tea:

1.    Take tea cups or tea pot, whichever is your preference and the required quantity, and add one teaspoon of loose tea green leaves for one cup of boiling water. If you are using a teapot, then an additional teaspoon of the leaves will do an ounce of good to the flavor.

2.    Once you add the tea-leaves, cover the cups or tea-pot with a lid. Allow it to stay for 3 – 5 minutes. The process of steeping green tea-leaves is quicker.

3.    You can have your tea-chilled. Or also add sugar or honey to it.

4.    Remember while serving to your guests or sipping from your cup, do not fill the tea-cup to the brim. Fill it half and serve. There is a tradition and culture to have flavorful green tea with more than one helping. And you would definitely want to revel in the green tea effect.

From brewing to how to drink green tea, the journey is exhilarating just as the leaves steep in all fervor in the hot water.

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