Melawat Kilang 'Ahmad Tea' di London (30pics)

abgsedapmalam · Post time 18-5-2014 01:06 PM

Chinese aka Camellia tea plant is an evergreen shrub that grows in tropical and subtropical mountain forests of Southeast Asia.
Traditionally, tea is grown in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Africa (Kenya and Natal), in South America. In Europe, it is growing in Russia (Krasnodar region), the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan), in southern England, Portugal, Sicily, western France.
All tea is grown in the world is essentially the same bush - Chinese camellia with small species. But his taste, quality and strength depends on where and in what conditions it grows. Moreover, tea harvested in the morning will be different from the tea harvested in the evening!

Tea plantations were collected manually (best obtained from the first 2 / upper leaves and buds of the uppermost), then the tea leaves are a couple of hours under the eaves that they podvyali bit. Podvyavshie leaves are rolled in a special car as a result they produce a lot of juice.
Twisted leaves, soaked in their own juice, spread on a sheet and left in the shadows that they have undergone a process of fermentation. On how long they will lie depends on what happens black tea, green, yellow, etc. After completion of the fermentation process, the tea is dried in kilns are packed in bags and sent to the tea auctions.

It is on these various tea auctions tea makers and buy tea.
Ahmad Tea traditionally buys tea grown in China, Sri Lanka, Kenya and India.
Purchased tea has different tastes so the experts (titestery) main office Ahmad Tea mix different varieties of tea to get the right blend.
The main objective titestera consists precisely in the fact that every time would be mixing different teas, repeat once compiled blend.

Kharkiv Ahmad Tea tea-packing factory was built and put into operation in November 1999.
It is the only factory Ahmad Tea in Ukraine, for the year it produces (packages engine) 3500 tons of tea.

The company Ahmad Tea London was founded in England (Hampshire), in 1946 the representative of the dynasty of Tea Ahmad Afshar.
Since the beginning of the 20th century Afshar family did business in Iran, producing the best tea in the Middle East. Now the company Ahmad Tea London directs the eldest son of the founder.

Our tour begins at the factory with a little unexpected ... tasting!

Usually there are tasting at the end, but here in the beginning.
I think this is the correct calculation! Fed blogger - a good blogger! Yes, and there will be less questions to ask.

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Here they are - the cookies for the blogger!

While we drink tea a wonderful girl Xenia and part

) factory tour guide tells us about the secrets of tea production.

The amount of information given in this huge! Bloggers hard creaked pencils in notebooks sipping hot tea and cookies pohrumyvaya.
Xenia respond to our tricky questions helped Marina Tereshchenko brand manager TM Ahmad Tea in Ukraine. In Marina I honestly just fell in love!
Besides that she is a beautiful girl Duc back to the time when she was finishing answering the question, I not only forgot where it started but that actually I asked

))) One word pro!

Finished with tea and questions, we went to see the production. You need to climb to the top, fifth floor.

On the fifth floor is a warehouse that tea Kharkiv Factory receives from the main office Ahmad Tea England packed in bags.

Each bag is marked appropriately.

Multiwall bags it might be necessary to keep the same taste and smell of tea during transport.

Here, on the fifth floor of the tea bags or boxes filled into bunkers where it enters the packaging machines.

Box or bag put on a lift ...

Who picks it up and turns into a container where tea comes with a thin layer on the conveyor.

Worker on the conveyor controls the purity of tea.

The hopper is full, which means the machine on the ground floor provided with jobs.

This is the fourth floor,
Here, too, well, raw material warehouse and you can see the look of bunkers.

This small bins serving tea in machines that make tea bags (each 250 kg of tea).
Indeed, in each bag is poured only 2 grams and a large supply is simply not needed because You can pour slowly.

With each batch of tea that comes in Ukraine are sampled in order to check its compliance with standards and make sure the immutability of its smell and taste.

Weighing go to shop.
This is a machine for the production of teabags.

She wraps the tea bags, attaches the rope, the label ...

Holds them together ... and brackets.

tea enters the machine is still quite large.

Here, look closer.

And just before the backfill bags in his car even more chops.

In general, no tea bags for dust from sweeping the floor will not

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This is the same as the tea leaf and only specially milled machine for packing in bags.
Moreover, tea with the same name (and bags and bundles with macrophylla) actually collected on the same bush. These are the same two first leaves and a bud.
Well, the difference in taste due to the fact that tea is finely ground Bole actively gives substance contained therein.

The machine itself counts the number of bags made.

And every 25th lifts a little that would packer was easier to count.

It remains to take 25 bags and put them in a box.
Each tea is weighed to make sure that the machine is not shortchanged.

On packs with laser marks the date of manufacture.

And sent to the packaging machine.

Which wraps them in foil.

Well, after a pack of tea are placed in boxes and sent to the warehouse.

Along the entire department made a special transporter that carries boxes and tea warehouse.

You just need to put them in the lift.

And click.

Work in full swing. Someone puts tea in packs, someone sets up the car.
Factory work in shifts seven days a week, and some lines and 24 hours a day.

Honestly, I can not imagine how they have so obtained.
While corrected packages and close one new pack machine fills and so relentlessly.

And this is a line for packaging of loose tea.
Poured on to a tube of film that machine seals and cuts.

It only remains to put it in a box.

Hmm ... right frame of film about gangsters who play cards on the table and a lot of money

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Since the factory a lot of machines with moving parts here are very strict safety regulations and workers are properly instructed in the beginning of each shift.

But bloggers were instructed not ... Once!
And Cyril [backcolor=transparent !important]

akirich_pcroom has at the top, and Xenia grabs his head presenting as he flies from there to a filling machine and transformed into bags ..

All production is automated as much as possible.

And this is the coolest devil machine.

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It generally works without human intervention.

She makes bags and she puts them in the box.

Box closes itself again and film seals.

After this box weighed.
If the weight is less than laid box goes to the basket for marriage.
Strange thing ... after this machine to twist near Kohl [backcolor=transparent !important]

fotoman_kharkov six boxes in a row she straightened her marriage ...

Though machine and vumnye and accounting products still antiquated methods!

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And this is the finished product warehouse.

It is from the tea leaves on the shelves.

Who said blogger to be easy?

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Now go into the inner sanctum factory - lab.
In each factory Ahmad Tea has its titester. That is, it checks that comes to tea factory for compliance with standards and the formulation blends.
In addition, in line with the manufacturing process every two hours for the tea samples are taken exactly the same control quality.

Since titestery brewed tea and try it for taste and appreciate its smell, they can not drink alcohol and smoke, eat much sweet, salty or spicy food (damn how they live?)

Meet!
Titester Kharkov factory Ahmad Tea Ali Reza Shushi Dezful, Iranian and he works in a factory the opening day.

The main tool is the cup and titestera own taste buds.

But not a single language as stated in the lab there and other equipment for the study of tea.

To test, three grams of tea leaves, which are metered on special electronic scales precision.
At the initial stage of organoleptic test titester studies appearance leaves - they should be clean, saturated color, without any raid.
After visual tea brewed in a porcelain dish with water of 96-98 ° for 3-5 minutes (depending on the type of tea). Then infusion through special teeth on the cup wall merges into porcelain bowl and sodden leaves exposed study.
Senior titester appearance brewed tea leaves traces the whole history of blending: the drying, rolling, fermenting and firing leaves, fresh tea or not, control its flavor.

At the final stage of testing investigated infusion tea: compare shades of color, taste is tried.

Trying tea titester it does not swallow, and rinsed the mouth and upper throat department determines taste, astringency, strength and other characteristics of tea on droplets remaining on the tongue, cheeks and palate.

While trying tea titester Serban loud!
It turns out that way to drink tea. Serban when it is mixed better with oxygen that affects its taste.
That's because I told his parents as a child that when Serban tea taste better! And they were forbidden to do so, "Drink cultural Do not Serban!".

This battery of the cups!
And so every 2 hours - you have to try everything.

The cabinets are the reference samples of tea which can compare titester tea arriving at the factory.

Denis [backcolor=transparent !important]

denny_one lovingly looks at one of the cans and asked if he could take a bit of ~~this wonderful herb~~ tea that a reference to compare with the house bought in the store.

Well that's all.
Tour came to an end.
Denis did otmutil reference packet of tea, and now I know exactly who I'll bring on a trip to a jewelry factory! (For a fraction of the rendered out)

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Well, I managed to get a little break the myths about tea?

In conclusion, I want to thank Xenia, Marina and Ruslana who conducted for us a wonderful tour of the factory.

shamsadis · Post time 18-5-2014 05:06 PM

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delisha09 · Post time 18-5-2014 05:15 PM

ahmad teh mmg besttt...

minum ptg2 dgn goreng pisang pn sodap, nk2 bau teh dia tu wangi...

mizahanan · Post time 18-5-2014 07:39 PM

br jap td minum ptg goreng pisang dgn english breakfast. Tq 4 the info

cherylrihanna · Post time 19-5-2014 02:08 AM

Xpnh tgk pun teh ni.ada jual.kt sini ke?

shuk_one · Post time 19-5-2014 03:19 AM

Teh ni best, tak pahit even x de gula...

yipun_78 · Post time 19-5-2014 06:35 AM

boleh x lain kali max 3 pix dalam satu posting? pening tgk

larikesurga · Post time 19-5-2014 08:18 AM

aku suka dilmah..... ahmad tea tak pernah try..sama macam pau ahmad..tak penah try..hahaha

anees~nuhara · Post time 19-5-2014 08:18 AM

bersihnye kilang teh dorg...kalo g kemeren...serabut tgk Last edited by anees~nuhara on 19-5-2014 08:19 AM

airisa · Post time 19-5-2014 12:30 PM

english dia ..

i suka teh mlesna banding dgn dilmah ... dua2 brand dr sri lanka, cumanya dilmah ni dah terkenal internationally .. local sri lankan always prefer mlesna ..