Strawberry Green Tea

Tea type
Fruit Green Blend
Ingredients
Green Tea, Natural Strawberry Flavor
Flavors
Strawberry, Sugar, Tart, Sweet, Vegetal, Mint, Bamboo, Berries, Grass
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by sherapop
Average preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 3 min, 30 sec 8 oz / 251 ml

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  • “took this from the traveling tea box because it smelled so totally rad. and then i brewed it and it got cold and stuff. so now i am drinking it with some hot water added. and it’s nice and i like...” Read full tasting note
  • “This one is just as fiddly and delicate as Kusmi’s almond green, but worth it in the end I think! The dry leaves smell very sweet, and the scent sticks around once brewed, though it’s much lighter....” Read full tasting note
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Combination between a green Sencha tea from China and strawberry flavors.

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790 tasting notes

This is an oddity. It’s a strawberry flavored tea and a green tea and a bagged tea – that I liked! This one was quite enjoyable today at work. I steeped twice. It was a bit weaker the second time but still decent. I need to try this one cold, too, since I generally prefer fruity teas cold. But it was very good hot! I do wish they sold it loose as well but the bag wasn’t a terrible impediment to enjoyment. :)

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Trying this one as a cold brew today. I put this and some spearmint green in the fridge last night before bed (about a heaping teaspoon in 8 ounces of water for each one). Thanks again to Stephanie and Cheri for sharing your cold brew wisdom! Before taking it out, I made a simple syrup to sweeten with because trying to stir sugar into iced tea is one of my biggest pet peeves! >:|

I’m actually a little bit disappointed with this as a cold brew. The tea flavor is there, but I’m not getting nearly as much strawberry as I would like, even with sweetener added. There’s also a tiny bit of bitterness there, so I’m not sure if I shouldn’t have let it steep as long as I did (it was around 12 hours or so I think). Overall, it’s not bad but I definitely prefer this tea hot. I’m not going to change my rating because I feel like when a tea is also good iced, it’s a bonus rather than an expectation.

Preparation
Iced 8 min or more 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
boychik

im not good with cold steeps. But sometimes i make it like iced tea, hot and chill.

Cameron B.

Yeah I might try doing this one that way and see how it compares. That might help with the bitterness.

yyz

Bitterness could be caused by either too long a steep or too much leaf. I usually steep mine 6-8 hrs overnight,but I am definitely not a regular cold steeper. I cold brew my flavoured greens and some of my Oolong’s.

Cameron B.

I think I’ll try this one again with both of your methods – the chilled hot brew and the shorter cold steep. Thanks for your comments and advice! :3

Stephanie

Good luck…you are good for not getting frustrated and trying again!

Cameron B.

@Stephanie – If it had been horrible I wouldn’t try again. :P But it wasn’t bad, just underwhelming.

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Vegetal sencha underneath, sweet strawberry aroma and flavor on top. Tastes like a summer morning. Would take a hint of sugar well, possibly a touch of cream for a strawberries-and-cream experience.

Flavors: Bamboo, Berries, Grass

Preparation
190 °F / 87 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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According to their website, Kusmi Strawbery Green Tea is a strawberry-flavored sencha. To me, this seems like bancha. I’ve had some difficulty extracting answers about the identity of the China green teas used in the Kusmi blends, so I’m starting to wonder whether they might vary from batch to batch. Here’s what a customer service representative wrote to me this morning, along with my reply:

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:04 AM, [a Kusmi sales associate]> wrote:

Hi

Hope this helps!

Algothé Standard Chinese green

Almond Green Standard Chinese green

Ginger Lemon Green Standard Chinese green

Green Bouquet Standard Chinese green

Imperial Label Sencha green tea (made in the Japanese style, but produced in China)

Best

[a Kusmi sales associate]

Dear Jeremy,

China makes a wide range of green teas, so your answers do not really narrow down the possibilities.

Thanks for your effort all the same.

Sincerely,

[sherapop]

Anyway, the strawberry scent is very powerful in the dried leaves, and a bit less so in the taste of the liquor. The scent of the surface of the tea, however, does still smell very much like strawberry. I was happy to read that the flavoring here is natural. Let’s hope that it’s true!

I’m not sure yet whether I like this combination. I love strawberry, and I love green tea (both sencha and bancha!), but do I like them together? Well, I have the rest of my 1 ounce sample tin of the loose blend to help me to determine the answer to the question!

Flavors: Berries

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 2 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
OwenjMayer

That response doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

sherapop

Exactly, OwenjMayer! It’s like saying “ingredients: tea”. ;-)

Angrboda

It’s probably a blend, rather than a specific type.

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Although the smell is divine there was a little too much strawberryness in the first steeping, but this third is quite enjoyable. I haven’t drank flavoured teas in a while. I guess that’s why the strong strawberry flavor was overwhelming.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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