Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
This is a new formula of our Mint Iced Green Tea. Two all natural mints, peppermint and spearmint, were cut and blended with Sencha tea leaves. The mint has a relaxing and calming effect and is a great thirst quencher.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
Oh, man, I am LOVING these cold-brew iced teas from Den’s Tea. Yeah, yeah, I know that they’re bagged teas, but, I just love how convenient it is to cold-brew these teas. I just plunk five bags into my half-gallon iced tea pitcher along with a half gallon of freshly filtered, cool water and seal the lid, and stash it in my fridge. The next morning, I have a pitcher full of delicious, refreshing iced tea.
And this Mint Iced Tea from Den’s doesn’t really need anything more than that! No sugar or other sweetener, nothing. It’s got a pleasant sweetness to it without anything more added, and it has a cool, crisp minty taste that adds to the overall refreshment of the glass of iced tea.
The green tea is the strongest flavor, and that’s the way it should be. The green tea tastes vibrant and clean with a sweet, vegetative taste. I like that the mint flavor – a combination of both peppermint and spearmint – is also strong, but it doesn’t overpower the green tea. That happens all too often with mint teas … the mint flavor becomes so dominate that all one can taste is the mint. I drink tea because I like tea, not for the added flavors. The added flavors do add a little something extra, but really, when it comes right down to it, it’s all about the tea for me … and I like that it’s all about the tea with Den’s tea, too.
A very refreshing way to cool off during these hot summer days!
Pear Iced Green Tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
Pear’s sweetness and freshness are harmonized with full-bodied Sencha flavor. Den’s Pear Iced Green Tea is the most popular flavored iced green tea among our development team.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I love pears, but it is one of those “less common” kind of fruits, especially when it comes to fruit flavored teas. It’s become pretty easy to find strawberry or peach flavored teas, for example … but I don’t come across as many pear flavored teas. And I think I know why: it’s not an easy flavor to capture with tea. The flavor of the fruit tends to be a delicate one anyway, so to flavor tea with pear essence is not an easy feat. More often than not, the resulting pear flavored tea ends up tasting like artificial pear or not like pear at all. I’ve only tasted maybe a handful of pear flavored teas that ended up tasting true to the fruit.
Well, add this one to that handful! Because this does taste true to the fruit while still managing to maintain the presence of the green tea. In fact, the green tea is the strongest flavor of this tea, and it is sweet and tastes lushly green – very vibrant and yet calm … just like the color itself.
But the pear is also strong – deliciously strong – without tasting fake. No odd flavors here, nothing tastes off. It tastes like deliciously smooth, vegetative Japanese Sencha and sweet, juicy pear.
Oh… and did I mention just how refreshing it is? It’s been so hot lately, it’s finally cooling down, but it is still rather warm. But gulping this tea helps keep me cool and hydrated! So good that you won’t even think about how good it is for you. But it is … so you don’t have to worry about that, either!
Peach Iced Green tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
The fruitful Peach flavor plays second string to the Sencha flavor. With the first sip you sense a sweet and sour taste then the taste of a premium Sencha comes though.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I’m really loving the tea I’m producing using the cold-brewing method, and since I finished the last of the Southern Boy Teas a few days ago, I decided that I needed something else that was easy to cold-brew. At about that same time, I saw that Den’s Tea had these great cold-brew green iced teas so I decided to try a few of them. This is the first of four that I’ll be trying over the next couple of weeks.
I let this brew overnight (this is one of the things I love best about cold-brewing tea, I just let it do it’s thing overnight, then in the morning, I have iced tea, already good and chilled and ready to drink), and even after a good 12 hours of brewing, it did not become bitter.
The sencha is vegetative and stands out as the strongest flavor. The touch of Matcha enhances the vegetative tones and gives the tea a nicely smooth flavor. The tea offers a savory tone that contrasts with the sweet, juicy flavor of the peach.
This is so well-rounded: sweet, a little sour, and savory. It has a very satisfying, refreshing flavor that doesn’t need sweetener – which is a big plus in my book. And while it is sweet, it doesn’t come off as cloying. It doesn’t taste too vegetative. It has a really pleasing complexity.
This is not your average glass of iced tea!
Southern Boy Teas Series, Part 8: Bubblegum from 52Teas
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: 52Teas
Tea Description:
Premium Indian CTC black teas blended with organic flavoring. Amazing tea with a great bubblegum finish.
Learn more about Southern Boy Teas here.
Taster’s Review:
Well, this is the eighth and final tea for me to try from the Southern Boy Teas series, and I am kind of wishing I had made this one earlier, and maybe saved one of the others for last. I’m not saying that I dislike this tea – I am actually really enjoying it – but, it’s not my favorite.
However, I will say … this delivers exactly what it promises! This tastes like black tea and bubblegum. If someone were to liquify pink bubblegum and mixed it with black tea – the result would probably taste very much like what I’m drinking now.
The black tea is smooth and has a brisk, satisfying taste. Any bitterness or harshness that this tea might have had has been softened by the sweetness of the bubblegum flavor. The bubblegum flavor is very authentic tasting – this tastes like the pink bubblegum that we all know and that the child within loves, even if we don’t want to admit it! I taste creaminess to this, which enhances the overall “bubblegum” experience.
It is really very refreshing and tasty. It isn’t my favorite of these Southern Boy Teas, but, it is certainly good and I am enjoying it enough that I’d order it again!
Moroccan Mint from The Boston Tea Company
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: The Boston Tea Company
Tea Description:
Keep on rockin’ with Moroccan! Mint, that is! Try this Chinese Gunpowder variety of long-leaf green tea, hand-rolled to form tiny pellets and blended with fragrant Moroccan Mint leaves. When steeped, the tea leaves unfurl, releasing their delicate flavor which, combined with the mint, makes for a uniquely refreshing cup every time! It’s lovely iced, too!
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I love many different types of flavored teas, and I wouldn’t even say that Moroccan Mint is my favorite, but I will say this, I’d be hard-pressed to find a tea that is more refreshing than a Moroccan Mint! The fresh, cool taste of mint combined with the delicate, sweet flavor of a high-quality Chinese gunpowder green tea leaves my palate feeling clean and refreshed while invigorating me from within.
This Moroccan Mint from the Boston Tea Company is splendid! It has the flavor I’ve come to expect from a top-notch Moroccan Mint tea. It’s minty, but not overpoweringly so. It’s sweet and tastes fresh and zesty, and it’s cooling even when served hot (which is how I’m sipping it now).
Before steeping, I poured some of the leaves into my palm, just to get a good look at it. I could see the tiny pellets of the gunpowder tea tossed amongst the bits of mint leaves. I liked that while the mint leaves were broken to uniform size, they were not pulverized into dust and the pellets appeared to be pretty uniform in size and shape too. And – no surprise! – it smelled minty fresh.
While this is delicious hot, it is equally as nice served iced and as I said at the start of this review, it’s easily one of the most refreshing teas out there – something that you’ll want to keep stocked up on as these hot summer days seem to go on and on! This is great for cold-brewing too!