Pineapple Sencha

Ahhhhhhhhh! PURE Fresh, Pineapple! Perfect scent of Pineapple
If you like Pineapple…check this out!

Before, During, and After it’s all about the freshly cut Pineapple Smell…once you infuse add the fresh Pineapple smell to a Green Tea and there you go! It has a typical Sencha type color and the taste is refreshing and creamy, yes, creamy! I was shocked it was creamy…I mean it says it’s creamy but I didn’t believe it for myself until I tried it. AND it’s still all about the Pineapple! YUMMY Juiciness! The Green Tea Taste is still true as well!

This is a darling of a flavored green sencha tea!

Wow, this is good. Like, really good. Perfect combo of sweet grassy Sencha and really sweet pineapple. The pineapple isn’t overwhelming but definitely complements the Sencha beautifully. It’s like the sweetness of the Sencha flows right into the sweeter pineapple. I also got a free sample of their Orange Sencha with my order, so I’m curious to see how that compares.

So far I’m really loving Den’s Teas!

I LOVE THIS!!!! I just celebrated my 30th birthday on Monday and my husband ordered two new tins for me for more tea!!! I claimed one of them for this tea because as soon as it is back in stock I want to order more. The tea tins are SO cute too- they are japanese doll tea tins. Love them! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=japanese+tea+doll+canister&x=0&y=0
and this one:http://www.amazon.com/White-Hakata-Doll-Canister-Japan/dp/B004AMBMUQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297976451&sr=8-1-fkmr2
And I just ordered the sakura sencha from Den’s tea. I am so very anxious to try some! Their senchas are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the buttery pineapple fragrance and flavor of this tea. I usually do very little resteeping, but these flavored Senchas from Den’s Tea just beg for a good resteep. Also, since they call for very fast steeps (30 seconds to 45 seconds) they last really well over time. Lately I’ve taken to drinking one of these all afternoon with many resteeps.

I’ve always been a fan of Den’s flavored Senchas. They are kind of like 52teas’s teas. The smell and the taste is right on. So pineapple sencha… just what you’d expect. A sencha with a pineapple juice flavoring to it. For the record, I’m not a huge fan of pineapple. One lovely summer day, many many years ago, pineapples were on sale and I being a glutton, devoured quite a number of succulent pineapples and that is surely a run on sentence and the tale of how pineapples and I no longer share a common bond.

First cup was a forty-five second brew @ 208F and the pineapple taste was strong, sencha flavor was a bit weaker.

Second cup was a minute brew @ 190-200F. Sencha flavor came out more =] Success!

I think I’m still a bigger fan of the Den’s Apple Sencha. Thanks to silvermage2000 for sending me some of this delicious tea =]

Oh yeah, The Tea Farm’s Pineapple Green and Den’s Pineapple Sencha are two completely different beasts.

Ummm, the description and den’s brewing parameters online seem to conflict.
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With all the positive comments I’ve read about pineapple sencha lately, I just knew it had to be good. However, I didn’t expect this tea to completely blow me away… and it did! Den’s Tea does a phenomenal job with its teas. The sencha is so very green and inviting and the little chunks of papaya scattered throughout contrast nicely. I loved looking at it and breathing in the fresh, pineapple scent. (At first it smells a bit too pineappley… similar to pineapple in syrup.)

I always worry about cooking my green teas and ending with veggies, so I took a lighter route again. 185/1 min. Now, the pineapple scent is subdued, but still very present. There is something else weighing in on the aroma, but I can’t quite place my finger on it. It’s a heavier scent, more vegetal and I’m a bit worried about the flavor this tea has. Until I take a sip…

The taste… amazing! First and foremost, I taste the pineapple. It’s still ever present, but is not too sweet. I can pick up papaya in the aftertaste, perhaps coconut, too. It’s a sweet/nutty combination of flavors. There’s a slight bitterness to the tea, not too much. Most surprising of all is the body of this tea. It has a thickness to it. I can’t believe it is just water here and not something heavier. There is most definitely a buttery creaminess to it. I think that’s what I was picking up in the aroma… butter. It’s a very interesting combination and an extremely pleasing experience. This tea is wonderful!

Earlier I had a second cup.

I prefer brewing this like TG’s Green Coconut. I steep it at 180F for 2 minutes. I taste more pineapple. I have blew through my 2 oz bag QUICK! This is some good tea! :)

This is AWESOME iced.
10g, 12oz water, brewed for 1.5 mins. Then I poured into a pot with probably 8 ice cubes (ended up being about 18-20oz water).
The second infusion (also iced, same parameters) I shorted the steeping time to maybe 20 seconds. It was even better than the first.

I made some of this iced today. Really a good iced tea, I think I like it better iced than hot. It tastes very tropical and summery. I think that I’ll try to have some of this on hand for the really hot part of summer.

Had a couple steeps of this earlier this evening.

I find that the (to me) very short suggested steeping time really does make a difference. It’s still good if steeped longer, but it tastes so fresh and crisp with that brief steep. This has become one of my favourites.