236 Tasting Notes
It has dark twisted leaves with a pretty fruit smell. Steeping it creates a sweet oolong tea with a bit too much bitterness for my taste. One of the few teas I couldn’t finish.
Preparation
I didn’t get ANY bitterness at all… try 2.25g/6oz water for 5 min in boiling purified water.
Yeah, someone said they tried to oversteep and couldn’t get many tanins out. Maybe your water quality is poor?
Another good point castiq- play around w/ different water, water temp, leaf amount, and steep time. Don’t give up on it:)
In the month since my 1st comment I’ve done a lot more trial and error (w/ not a lot of errors thank God;)), try a steep anywhere between 30sec and 3min. I’m hoping that’ll give you a better cuppa… 2nd infusion might bring back the bitterness then though. Subsequent infusions when starting w/ a short steep time can be interesting. Fortunately, I think that’s a good thing:)
The tea is a brilliant chartreuse with little pieces of bright green popped rice and roasted rice kernels. It brews up into a pale cloudy green brew that smells delightfully roasty and has a light rounded roasted, slightly salty taste. There are other notes that have a very light sweetness to them as well.
Preparation
This is one of my favourite greens. I always like it when someone else also likes my favourites. :)
I kind of like it when teas turn out to be chartreuse in color. I guess it’s the kid in me.
hoping for super powers :)
laughs It looks like some sort of toxic waste brew. XD
This is my favourite type of Genmaicha. It is also called genmaicha matcha iri. Usually the aroma of the roasted rice is quite strong, but adding some matcha makes it more harmonic. Looks very nice on the picture. Btw. gemaicha has a lots of vitamin B due to the rice..good fo the skin :)
When I visited Dream About Tea in Chicago I asked the proprietor for advice about Pu-erh. I told him that I hadn’t found any I truly liked and that they upset my stomach. He asked what I had tried and so I told him the most recent experiment Tuocha: Camel’s Breath. He told me that Tuocha is made with broken leaves and that I would likely enjoy full leafed pu-erhs better. This rang so true for me I felt like slapping myself for not realizing it. Afterall, I prefer full leaf teas of every other sort of tea, why not pu-erh? I asked him for a recommendation for a beginner pu-erh tea and he showed me this one.
I rinsed it with hot water and then brewed it for 30 seconds (as per directions found on the web). Brewed up it smells like a combination of honey, light sweet fruits and apricot. The taste is very light, though that may be due to the 30 second brew time. I am looking forward to the second steeping which I may do a longer steep. There is no bitterness, no compost like taste. Just a sweet good tea. I really like this one.
Second Steeping: 45 seconds this time. It has stronger notes of honey and apricots.
Preparation
It smells wonderful in the bag, like candy. It brews up into a slighly murky, light brown liquid that smells of coconut and some kind of sweet spice. As advertised, it pretty much tastes like a candy bar as well. I will probably steep it longer next time to get a stronger the tea and chocolate taste from it, but so far I like it.
Psst. This has nothing to do with your post, but I know that you had proposed a tea swap a few days back. [I responded late, but I’m not sure if you saw it because I think it got buried in the sea of updates.]
Anyhow, I’m still game if you are! [My email’s heather.takgoti@gmail.com.]
You’re right. I missed your reply. It’s been awfully busy where I’ve been and I’ve missed a lot. I’m definitely game! I’ll email you soon.
I haven’t liked most of the rooibos teas I’ve tried, but this one is quite good. It doesn’t have the dusty taste I’ve come to associate with rooibos, though it does dry my mouth a bit, but that’s ok. It has a strong scent of Bourbon vanilla, which is one of my favorite vanillas. In the cup the vanilla and rooibos combine to create a creamy delicious whole.
It’s nice to have a soothing non-caffeinated choice for evening drinks.
I love this tea. It brews up into a sweetly scented pale copper colored liquor. It smells and tastes as if a few drops of a Midori had been added to the tea. It is a lovely, luxurious taste.
