Sweet Roast Green Tea

There is definitely a roasted flavor to it. One of the most unique green teas I have tried. I am going to have to make another cup and see how it goes. I am also thinking of increasing the steep time to 3 minutes.

This is a very green tea grown in the USA (Big Island, Hawaii). As the name suggests, this is a green tea with a light roastiness to it.

The green flavour is vegetal, astringent but not bitter or sour at all. It is kind of a tangy tingle on your tongue. The tannin level is good, but the water here makes it a bit difficult for me to taste the subtleties in the tea (because I’m not used to what the water itself tastes like.) The roast on it is perfect, and it brings out a light sweetness. It reminds me a bit of tobacco smoke and beach wood. Not nutty or bark, more like the faintest hint of woody stems. It is an ok tea but very green. I recommend it for fans of green tea. If you don’t like vegetal teas, you probably will not enjoy this one as much as green tea fans.

Note, this is a bagged tea but is high quality. It is loose leaf tea put into baggies. You could cut open the teabag if you preferred.

Extremely sweet with nutty tones. Hints of matcha vegetal astringency coming through.

Mm, Sweet Roast Green. If Pokemon were iced tea, this would be a legendary. There was a huge batch for a party this week, and it was GONE before I could get a refill.

The leaves are fragmented, not a quality defect but a result of roasting. And what delicious roasting it is, producing a sweet-tart, and slightly toasty green tea with hints of pineapple and seaweed. The tartness is in the flavor and in the texture, with a strong, pleasant tingle especially when brewed hot (then cooled, if making iced tea). Absolutely no astringency or bitterness here, even when subjected to boiling temperatures in the way that I like to torture green tea sometimes (FOR SCIENCE).

And so easy to make too, it doesn’t take more than a short half minute to extract flavor from it, but it will take a beating too. Most interesting: that slight pineapple and marine character. Might be a consistent trait of the Hawaiian region. Go go US-grown tea!!

Green and it’s fishy up in my nose. A slight bitterness. Sort of yellow. Mildly astringent.

I’m not sure what I think. It’s an odd mix of flavors.

I’ll need to continue a few tastes over time to decide what I really think of this one… So far I like it I think… Odd.

Snow storm outside so I thought I’d go through some of the tea I have stocked up for just such a situation.

Only started with this tea as I already had boiling water. Odd that directions wanted that, toasted flavor is almost all I taste, added a bit of honey to cut through, all I smell is grass/hay.

Not bad, just not my favorite.