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scientistsinistralAnother green to soothe ourselves a bit after that smoky Russian Caravan. I like gunpowder teas, and I love mint, so this should be good.
Gunpowder Mint is exactly what it says on the tin: it's a tightly rolled tea like a gunpowder pellet, with added peppermint.
In the packet, it just smells very minty. The more subtle smell of the green is lost in comparison, but I do love the smell of mint so I'm not complaining.
Ingredients: Chinese pinhead gunpowder green tea, peppermint.
For the first tasting. Hot brewed, 80°C, 3 minutes. One tablespoon into a standard mug. I do need to get my hands on a gaiwan for some Gong Fu brewing at some point, and I keep seeing pretty sets, but I might leave that for when I have a flat to myself or something and have the space.
The leaves really unfold in water with a gunpowder tea - especially this one. They call it pinhead, and they're right - look how tiny those pellets are!
But then it unfurls all the way in the strainer - I had a larger strainer today so the leaves had all the room they needed to expand, and expand they did.
In the cup, it just smells like a green, strangely enough. The mint is slightly there, but the warmth of the green is what's there more. It's not strong, though.
Hot Brew
Verdict: Good one. The initial leafy taste of the green meets my tongue first, but then once the warmth cools it's replaced by the mint that lingers in the mouth. And, well, I know I'm biased in this respect but the experience that lingers is what I remember most, and what I judge something on, and that's often the last one. So if the mint is the lingering taste, and I do love the taste of mint provided I don't have to physically eat the leaves, then this is a good one for me.
However, I will say that whilst I don't dislike the green - it's fine, it's a green and tastes like one, and I'm slighty tiring of it as the cup goes on, and I'm wishing it was just the mint because that's the nicer flavour, which makes me think I need to try just a plain peppermint tea or two - I have a few, but haven't gotten to them yet. I'll have to try one first, but just plain mint teas might be on the list more when I order teas in future. (Which I keep saying will be a while, and then tea companies have sales and I keep buying tea. I've got like, 6 tea haul posts that I could do that I'm holding off on right now because that way I'll drink all the oldest stuff I have before the newer stuff because I won't drink the new stuff until I've posted a tea haul about it.)
Lessons Learned:Things taste good when you actually do them at the right temperature - who would have thought that guidelines were there for a reason? (that's sarcasm.)
Would I drink it again? Drink again, probably not purchase again. Especially hot - the mint might be too much cold for a cold brew, but that lingering mint in my mouth is great.
Gunpowder Mint is exactly what it says on the tin: it's a tightly rolled tea like a gunpowder pellet, with added peppermint.
In the packet, it just smells very minty. The more subtle smell of the green is lost in comparison, but I do love the smell of mint so I'm not complaining.
Ingredients: Chinese pinhead gunpowder green tea, peppermint.
For the first tasting. Hot brewed, 80°C, 3 minutes. One tablespoon into a standard mug. I do need to get my hands on a gaiwan for some Gong Fu brewing at some point, and I keep seeing pretty sets, but I might leave that for when I have a flat to myself or something and have the space.
The leaves really unfold in water with a gunpowder tea - especially this one. They call it pinhead, and they're right - look how tiny those pellets are!
But then it unfurls all the way in the strainer - I had a larger strainer today so the leaves had all the room they needed to expand, and expand they did.
In the cup, it just smells like a green, strangely enough. The mint is slightly there, but the warmth of the green is what's there more. It's not strong, though.
Hot Brew
Verdict: Good one. The initial leafy taste of the green meets my tongue first, but then once the warmth cools it's replaced by the mint that lingers in the mouth. And, well, I know I'm biased in this respect but the experience that lingers is what I remember most, and what I judge something on, and that's often the last one. So if the mint is the lingering taste, and I do love the taste of mint provided I don't have to physically eat the leaves, then this is a good one for me.
However, I will say that whilst I don't dislike the green - it's fine, it's a green and tastes like one, and I'm slighty tiring of it as the cup goes on, and I'm wishing it was just the mint because that's the nicer flavour, which makes me think I need to try just a plain peppermint tea or two - I have a few, but haven't gotten to them yet. I'll have to try one first, but just plain mint teas might be on the list more when I order teas in future. (Which I keep saying will be a while, and then tea companies have sales and I keep buying tea. I've got like, 6 tea haul posts that I could do that I'm holding off on right now because that way I'll drink all the oldest stuff I have before the newer stuff because I won't drink the new stuff until I've posted a tea haul about it.)
Lessons Learned:Things taste good when you actually do them at the right temperature - who would have thought that guidelines were there for a reason? (that's sarcasm.)
Would I drink it again? Drink again, probably not purchase again. Especially hot - the mint might be too much cold for a cold brew, but that lingering mint in my mouth is great.
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