Jun. 26th, 2022 08:19 pm
experiments in tea #11: jasmine (yumchaa)
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scientistsinistralThe first flavoured tea that's strictly a tea, and boy, do I love this one.
Jasmine is a tea that's been flavoured with jasmine blossoms (from the plants of genus Jasminum), either by adding and oil, laying jasmine blossoms on top of the tea as they're dried and letting the fragrance release onto the tea as the blossoms open by nightfall, or by just putting jasmine in the packet with the tea. Yumchaa's jasmine tea does the last of those.
Most jasmine teas are made with green tea, though white and black teas are sometimes used. The resultant tea is therefore very fragrant.
Ingredients: Chinese green tea, jasmine flowers.
This one I did not actually cold brew, because I liked it so much I hot brewed it five times until the bag was used up, and I think I'd just hot brew jasmine tea in general because given how my other green tea cold brews went, this might be the better option.
On the second go, I did pour it over ice which then immediately melted, because it was 32 degrees Celsius outside that day and I was not about to drink very hot tea. It became more of a 'more dilute cool tea'.
Hot Brew
Verdict: Either iced or hot, it's lovely. It might just be nostalgia talking, because I am Vietnamese and my family drinks jasmine iced tea in the summer like water - it's my father's tea of choice. I never got it before.
I get it now. I could drink cold jasmine tea like water.
Lessons Learned: I'm getting the hand of hot brewing! Still bits because I have an infuser with relatively large holes, but it is working and I know how to time it and it tastes good!
Edit, 5 days later: So I just finished the sample bag and added slightly more tea to finish it up, therefore making it stronger than usual, and as I got to the end the jasmine started to get strong and made me go 'that was... too strong.' So, lesson truly learned - the level perfect teaspoon measurement is actually the perfect amount for me.
So, more lessons learned - wait until it cools more before putting ice into the other glass and pouring it over ice. That isn't bad some of the time, but if it's already weak (see the strawberry daiquiri from the last post that I did that evening). Also, get better at pouring, because like 10mls of that went on my desk and the floor and had to be mopped up.
Would I drink it again? Put it this way: when I go back to stay with my parents for a bit in July, I know my dad has a tin of loose leaf jasmine tea and I will be drinking probably a lot of it.
Jasmine is a tea that's been flavoured with jasmine blossoms (from the plants of genus Jasminum), either by adding and oil, laying jasmine blossoms on top of the tea as they're dried and letting the fragrance release onto the tea as the blossoms open by nightfall, or by just putting jasmine in the packet with the tea. Yumchaa's jasmine tea does the last of those.
Most jasmine teas are made with green tea, though white and black teas are sometimes used. The resultant tea is therefore very fragrant.
Ingredients: Chinese green tea, jasmine flowers.
This one I did not actually cold brew, because I liked it so much I hot brewed it five times until the bag was used up, and I think I'd just hot brew jasmine tea in general because given how my other green tea cold brews went, this might be the better option.
On the second go, I did pour it over ice which then immediately melted, because it was 32 degrees Celsius outside that day and I was not about to drink very hot tea. It became more of a 'more dilute cool tea'.
Hot Brew
Verdict: Either iced or hot, it's lovely. It might just be nostalgia talking, because I am Vietnamese and my family drinks jasmine iced tea in the summer like water - it's my father's tea of choice. I never got it before.
I get it now. I could drink cold jasmine tea like water.
Lessons Learned: I'm getting the hand of hot brewing! Still bits because I have an infuser with relatively large holes, but it is working and I know how to time it and it tastes good!
Edit, 5 days later: So I just finished the sample bag and added slightly more tea to finish it up, therefore making it stronger than usual, and as I got to the end the jasmine started to get strong and made me go 'that was... too strong.' So, lesson truly learned - the level perfect teaspoon measurement is actually the perfect amount for me.
So, more lessons learned - wait until it cools more before putting ice into the other glass and pouring it over ice. That isn't bad some of the time, but if it's already weak (see the strawberry daiquiri from the last post that I did that evening). Also, get better at pouring, because like 10mls of that went on my desk and the floor and had to be mopped up.
Would I drink it again? Put it this way: when I go back to stay with my parents for a bit in July, I know my dad has a tin of loose leaf jasmine tea and I will be drinking probably a lot of it.
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