I’ve never had gunpowder tea before but the description on the packet sounded great. I really like smokey black teas so I thought this had potential…
The dry tea smelt like burnt green tea leafs to me. After steeping, the tea smelt more like cigarette smoke then the smoke of a fire. (By the way, cigarette smoke is one of the worst smells in the world to me). So, now I’m hoping that the taste is spectacular or I’m not going to have time to brew more tea to take to work with me today.
Oh! As I’ve typed this the tea has cooled a bit and the smell now has more of a green tea scent. There is hope! Ok, not great but the tea tastes of a green tea with bitter aftertaste. It’s not the bitter I’m use to though, a different one.
So this isn’t great and I wouldn’t buy it but I don’t have to dump it at least.
The one tea I have is gunpowder tea. I’m so amused by it.
Cigarette smoke? ew.