New Tasting Notes

Grabbed this from a coffee stand yesterday morning. Decent tea.

This, right here, is my favorite tea.

Double cup, 2 Truvia

an average bagged green tea nothing special but it’s not bad

My usual three cups of tie guan yin after dinner last night, sorely needed considering the sauerkraut pizza we ate.

A very good cup of green tea.

Prior to steeping it smells like…kitty litter…ick! Little to no scent while/after steeping. It’s gloomy green tea color. I wasn’t sure if I would like this based on the smell and some of the reviews that I have heard about green tea and chai’s especially some of the bagged tea brands…but this isn’t terrible! It’s not super strong which some people may like especially if they are new to Chai and/or Green Tea. If you are looking for something overly spicy this isn’t it. All and all I think I will give it a thumbs up.

Very delicate, very subtle green tea with the instantly recognisable flat green leaves and pale yellow brew. This one is lighter in taste than the Dragonwell from Teas & Tisanes that I had the other day. Water at 70C and steeped for two minutes.

This is a serviceable tea. It is good without being great…or even exceptional. I often go to this tea if I don’t have the time to savor something else, or if I feel “guilty” about continuing to consume a more expensive tea on a weekday.

Ok… so I have issues :)

Pretty horrible, but all we have in the office…

Yet again drinking the bagged version of an Adagio tea, although I have taken the leaves out and put them in my glass pot. I used 1 bags worth of leaves, 160ml water, 80 degrees C, 1.5 mins. I’m starting to like this tea the more times I brew it, it’s certainly not the highest grade of Long Jing, and perhaps a tiny bit over-fired, but still some very plesant roasty, citursy notes.

Nearly finished this one now, onto the Organic Kaoru next!

For 4/26 I drank China Green Tips in the morning. Snow Leopard though out the day, and Tropical Jasmine with Dinner.

Mmmm. Sweet and soothing, as always.

late on this Spring night / windows open, book in hand — / mint tea pleases me

For 4/25 This is a great bottled tea, you can really distinguish the white after taste, from the immediate green taste and smell.

For 4/25 prepped in a yixing teapot and took it to go in a tea tumbler.

For 4/25 I drank 3 cups for breakfast.

I first had Genmaicha years ago when I was very new to green tea. The person who introduced me to it didn’t brew it properly and, of course, I didn’t like it. This time I’ve used water at 77C and steeped it for two and a half minutes, and it’s much, much better. It produces the typical light yellow brew of a Japanese green, and I really like the slightly nutty taste. I’m not so crazy about the smell, which reminds me of slightly burnt toasted breakfast cereal.