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“Sip down! I gongfu brewed this tea while I made my usual mass breakfast cooking for the husband’s breakfasts for the week. Today’s huge breakfast: French Toast using a 1.5lb loaf I made the night...” Read full tasting note
“Mmmm, the gorgeous emerald green leaves smell so sweet , vegetal, and nutty. Whenever I smell the leaves my eyes widen and I get so excited that it’s hard to wait for the tea to finish brewing. ...” Read full tasting note
“I had a little “Butiki green tea face-off” on this stormy day. I brewed up and compared this, Butiki’s Spring Twist, Dragon Tip, and Sencha Superior and determined that this was my favorite out of...” Read full tasting note
“So, I was quite curious about the base of the Creamy Eggnog tea (yes, even before trying it!), so had to order this one as well during the Black Friday sale! Brewed up, the liquor is quite a light...” Read full tasting note
Our Organic Huangshan Mao Feng originates from Huangshan in the Anhui province in China and is grown in the Huangshan Sungta organic tea garden. The emerald colored leaves of this gentle green tea have fresh vegetal notes and an intoxicatingly sweet scent. This tea is free of astringency and contains sweet pea, artichoke, white corn, and fresh cut grass notes as well as some light Brazil nut notes. Organic Huangshan Mao Feng is a buttery green that has a surprisingly weighty body and yet is refreshing and juicy.
Ingredients: Organic Chinese Green Tea
Recommended Brew Time: 4 minutes
Recommended Amount: 2 teaspoons of tea for 8oz of water
Recommended Temperature: 180F degrees
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While this cup was steeping I was surprised to smell something very, very green — almost like freshly picked leaves. It’s a little unnerving for me since it’s not the most pleasant smell, but I have a feeling there will be other flavor notes besides the “green” that dominates the scent.
Sipping… luckily, I do like this taste more than leaves! It starts off crisp and green, but then offers up a delicious sparkling sweetness. The finish is vegetal, though I detect flowers and minerals, too. The nutty note is rather light for my tastebuds. I’m glad that I’m enjoying this one more than I thought I would. There are other greens that I like more, but I’m happy to have given this one a try!
I may have overleafed this with my suprsuffphistikated way of measuring this morning (open the bag and give it an optimistic shake), but it tastes nice. Vegetal, little bit roasty/nutty, with a bit of sweetness. Very slight drying at the end of the sip.
1 tbsp used for 375 ml
Sweet, smooth, vegetal, and creamy. I can see how this tea is a great complement to eggnog flavouring. I’m detecting a very nice slight lemon-type note- very unique!
Thanks to Kittenna for sharing with me!
Flavors: Lemon Zest
After my pecan pie tea disaster (tea-saster) I decided I’d rather drink something simple and unflavored, since lately I’ve been disappointed by flavored teas.
Found this one in my sample basket, in retrospect I can now remember requesting it from Stacey as a sample so I could try the base of the Creamy Eggnog tea to see what I’d get out of it.
However, when I pulled this sample out of my basket 10 minutes ago I had not yet recalled that, so I thought to myself “this should be interesting”… Brewed as per the directions on the bag and when I took my first sip I was really impressed with myself because i immediately identified it as the base of Butiki’s eggnog tea which is not something I remembered after almost a year of being Tea Free.
I used to walk around thinking I hated green tea, because I was drinking grocery store tea and no one told me to not use boiling water, therefore to me, green tea was this super gross bitter thing that people OBVIOUSLY only forced themselves to drink because they were told it was some kind of miracle health product.
Now I know better!
This has a mild natural flavor, that I am able to pinpoint as being buttery and light, and not super vegetal, which works for me.
I’m rating it as 76 because I don’t have a lot of plain green teas to compare it to, and I think I prefer a bit more richness to my tea. I definitely see why this was used as the base of my favorite eggnog tea. At the end of the day I still prefer this with a bit of flavor added (in the delicate, natural way that only Butiki seems to be able to pull off)… But one day I will revisit this, after I drink a bunch more green teas so that I have a basis for comparison.
Very glad I got to try this though!
