Gunpowder Oolong

Tea type
Oolong Tea
Ingredients
Oolong Tea
Flavors
Cinnamon, Floral, Honey, Honeysuckle, Mineral, Pear, Roasted Nuts, Smooth
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
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Edit tea info Last updated by Mastress Alita
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 12 oz / 350 ml

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This is a wild and crazy tea: it looks like a gunpowder tea-it tastes like a floral Taiwan oolong. The tightly balled leaves produce a cup that is silky, smooth, and slighty sweet.

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This tea is sooooooo old now, it’s been discontinued from TeaSource’s website for some time. When it was pulled from their site, I knew that my local cafe that sources some selection of TeaSource still had a tin of it, and I’d often order a cup of it from them on my lunch breaks from work… then a coworker gifted me an ounce she bought from that cafe with a cute coffee cup for my birthday one year. I kinda forgot about it until I was scanning my spreadsheet for my oldest teas and saw this and thought, “Ugh, I should drink that.”

Western brew, 3.5g steeped in 350ml of 205F water for 3 minutes. The leaf looks like gunpowder green tea, small and pellet-like, and even smells a bit vegetal/metallic/smoky in the bag, but brewed up? It tastes very much like a Four Seasons green oolong to me… smooth and very floral, like lilac and honeysuckle but not overwhelmingly perfumy, with a bit of a pear-like note, and a touch of cinnamon spice and sweet honey. There is a subtle, earthy roasted nuts note and a bit of a mineral aftertaste. It’s a very pleasant green oolong that looks quite deceptive from the exterior. I may try a batch cold-brewed, as well.

Flavors: Cinnamon, Floral, Honey, Honeysuckle, Mineral, Pear, Roasted Nuts, Smooth

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 g 12 OZ / 350 ML

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