Green Tea suggestions

Unfortunately green tea needs a lower temperature or it will be bitter – green tea is delicate. I’d let the water cool or try cold brewing it in the fridge.

If want to stick to bagged teas – Harney & Sons and Lupicia do decent bagged tea, but loose tea is always much better quality and better bang for your buck. Actually – Lupicia does boiling water for greens, but the steep time is very short.

If you want a tea that could take a hotter temperature, a green oolong would work – if you want it bagged, I’d get it from a good retailer. I’ve had supermarket bagged oolongs that were so horrible I could of steeped cardboard for better flavor.

You can bridge into loose leaf with something like a disposable paper filter and fill it with your own tea http://www.amazon.com/T-Sac-Disposable-Paper-Filter-Count/dp/B001BLCIN4

What I do for sensitive teas at work with no temp control is to pour the water and let it sit a couple minutes to cool it off before steeping. Takes longer but works great if you don’t mind ‘winging it’!

you can buy bagged green tea at Asian stores. (Vietnamese green teas are a allround, basic green teas…) they usually also have (bagged) green Ceylon tea.

There is a great variety in green: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Ceylon etc. each with a different taste.
Chinese Mao Feng is good start, it has a delicate taste, and doesn’t have an outspoken ‘green’ taste.

oolongs are my personal fave, esp. the light, green ones. They are more or less like green teas. not bitter at all, soft, creamy, milky, orchid … taste. You could give it a try.

Japanese teas are delicate, and have a vegatable/geen taste (which I love and prefer, but it’s not for everyone!)
(usually available at Asian markets as well (most the Chinese variation, but that is o.k. to start with, also in bagged version..)

I’d try a few to see what you prefer, the journey to finding the right tea for you will also give you more info on what teas there are on the market, and help you finding your personal preference.

and remember, do not use hot boiling water! (70/75 degrees C. at the most, any green tea will turn bitter when steeped too long in too hot water!

I found the Mahamosa tea blends a nice introcduction to green tea for me. I found too many green teas just tasted grassy and not really my favorites. I liked a number of the Mahamosa blends, particularly lemon sencha, plum/pear green and goji blueberry pomegranate.