Matcha au Lait - Strawberry

Tea type
Matcha Tea
Ingredients
Flavor, Matcha Green Tea, Sugar
Flavors
Creamy, Grass, Smooth, Sweet, Astringent, Biting, Candy, Strawberry
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Caffeine
High
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Average preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 1 min, 0 sec 8 oz / 236 ml

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  • “I finally figured out my best approach to Lupicia’s Matcha au Lait mix. First, I put a tablespoon’s worth of tea in my bowl. (I don’t have any teacups large enough yet shallow enough to whisk in,...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Home – 11:00 AM Added this to my recent order, as it was the only flavor I hadn’t tried. I prepared it as a matcha milk, using the recommended 2 heaping teaspoons of powder for 8 ounces of soy...” Read full tasting note
    70
  • “Summer Vacation! It occured to me I still haven’t made any matcha during my “stop” in Japan, so I figured that a matcha latte was in order for my morning tea today. I picked up two flavored matcha...” Read full tasting note
    79
  • “Too sweet. I feel like the ingredient listed should belisted in reverse order. Regardless you still get a nice bit of grassiness. The strawberry is more predominate then I thought it was going to...” Read full tasting note

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An exquisite strawberry-flavored matcha drink made with an elegant, highly aromatic matcha from Uji, Kyoto. Just add milk to this matcha au lait mixture. A rich milky taste with a light astringency and a sweet aftertaste. You may use hot water in place of milk to enjoy a quick aromatic matcha drink. Can be easily prepared using a heat-resistant mug in a microwave. *Contains granulated sugar

Ingredients: Sugar, dried strawberry powder, powdered green tea

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123 tasting notes

I finally figured out my best approach to Lupicia’s Matcha au Lait mix. First, I put a tablespoon’s worth of tea in my bowl. (I don’t have any teacups large enough yet shallow enough to whisk in, so I use one of those bowls Chinese restaurants serve rice in.) Then I fill the bowl about a third of the way with hot water, and whisk it until the tea’s blended in. At that point, it’s a very thick matcha. Then I fill the bowl the rest of the way with milk, and whisk again. Since the tea’s already dispersed in the hot water, this method avoids the clumpiness I had when I just used milk (even when I heated the milk first), plus adding the milk second helps cool the tea down so I can drink it immediately.

The strawberry flavor isn’t strong, but it’s definitely there. With the milk it’s very tasty.

When I was at Lupicia last week, all the matcha au laits were on sale. I wonder if this means it’s being discontinued already? Did anyone happen to notice if this was a limited edition for summer?

Cofftea

Suzi needs a chawan:) I’ve never had any of the au laits, but a TB seems like a lot. If you like orange, definitely try this w/ orange juice. Regular strawberry matcha is amazing this way so I can only imagine this would be just as spectacular:)

Cofftea

I actually think they’re more of a winter thing (at least in my head) so maybe sales are just down.

Suzi

I guess I do :-p Maybe a TB is big, but it’s a big bowl too so…gotta fill it up somehow! :-p

LiberTEAS

A tablespoon doesn’t seem like too much of a latte mix. That’s about what I use for the Domo lattes. And… Suzi, I have a couple of those rice bowls, and they would work fine as a chawan… in fact, I was noticing a couple of weeks ago that the rice bowls that I have are just about the right shape and size for a large chawan.

LiberTEAS

Oh… and I wanted to add, that if you do finally decide to break down and get yourself a chawan, you can find some excellent chawans on Etsy. I have 3 chawans now and have purchased all three on Etsy. I adore them… plus, they were much more economical than purchasing them from a tea merchant.

Suzi

Any etsy sellers you’d recommend? I love browsing that site :)

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3986 tasting notes

Home – 11:00 AM

Added this to my recent order, as it was the only flavor I hadn’t tried. I prepared it as a matcha milk, using the recommended 2 heaping teaspoons of powder for 8 ounces of soy milk.

Hmm… Well the base is pretty tasty, but I’m not really getting strawberry. The matcha is rich and creamy, with absolutely no bitterness. It has a smooth grassy flavor. The level of added sugar is okay for me, though really I would prefer it unsweetened so I could add agave to taste.

It’s good! But no strawberry for me…

There’s also not much in the packet if the servings are 2+ teaspoons each. So that also makes it a bit expensive.

Flavors: Creamy, Grass, Smooth, Sweet

Preparation
Iced 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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1214 tasting notes

Summer Vacation! It occured to me I still haven’t made any matcha during my “stop” in Japan, so I figured that a matcha latte was in order for my morning tea today. I picked up two flavored matcha latte mixes on the cheap from a past Lupicia mottainai sale, strawberry and caramel, so I decided to go with strawberry. Opening the bag and sniffing, it just smelled like matcha, that sweet grassy scent, perhaps a little sweeter than usual from the added sugar since it’s a latte mix, but I didn’t really notice the strawberry. Ah well. It was mottainai for being on the best buy date at the time, and that wasn’t going to stop me from free tea. I’ll still try it!

The directions just said to spoon whisk two teaspoons in one cup of milk and then microwave it, but I knew I could do better; I put the teaspoons and the cup of milk into my milk frother, pushed the “warm” button, and let it do it’s centrifugal thing. Bing! Matcha. So easy. My big mug holds two cups, so I let it have a second go, too. I use vanilla almond milk for my tea lattes (except for a few rare exceptions where I go with chocolate almond milk or coconut milk instead), and my finished drink now has a noticably sweet strawberry cream aroma.

Mmm. There is a fairly rich matcha flavor here, very grassy that lingers a bit on the back of the tongue. It still has a bit of a bite to it, despite the drink having some sweetener present, so it seems to be a fairly strong matcha. Despite not being able to smell the strawberry in the dry matcha, the flavor of it is very noticable, and pleasant, in the brewed drink. It’s sweet and reminds me less of rich berries and more of strawberry marshmellows or strawberry mochi; a sweet, fluffy-textured strawberry dessert. Pairing with vanilla milk may have something to do with that, giving it a really creamy sort of note. It’s an interesting juxtaposition with the sharper, slightly astringent grassy note of the matcha.

Flavors: Astringent, Biting, Candy, Creamy, Grass, Strawberry, Sweet

Preparation
2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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1228 tasting notes

Too sweet. I feel like the ingredient listed should belisted in reverse order. Regardless you still get a nice bit of grassiness. The strawberry is more predominate then I thought it was going to be. Its good but a bit too sugary for my tastes.

Dustin

I was sadly unimpressed with their flavored matcha.

Skysamurai

Agreed. I wasn’t fond of any

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1113 tasting notes

Matcha/Green TTB #1

For some odd reason this powder made me think of strawberry matcha candy mixture. Not that I ever had or found such a thing, but the thought of strawberry matcha and the smell of this just conjured such a thought in my mind. I tried to whisk this tea, but it kind of just did its thing without help :/
This actually has a strawberry taste in it which is nice. A bit dry at times, but overall nice.

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296 tasting notes

From the Matcha/Green TTB!

I kind of went by the packaging instructions, only I went for a cold version, rather than nuking the mix in some milk. This already has sugar in it, which happens to be the fist ingriedient. I like to mess around with the amount of sweetness in my own lattés, so I just shrugged that one off. There is also milk in this as well, which is off-putting, but I think it works. As if the carton of milk wasn’t milky enough? The strawberry is quite subdued. Like non-existent subdued. I think I smelled it before I took a sip? It wasn’t there in the ‘brew.’

Bummer. This could have been so much better.

Preparation
Iced
TeaBrat

yeah I agree, couldn’t find much strawberry in this

Skysamurai

I have yet to try it but I haven’t really like Lupicia’s matcha

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193 tasting notes

This is my first review in months! I guess I just got really tired of spending hours a day on steepster and feeling like I was wasting my life (I know that’s dramatic, but I am not getting any younger).

I was so excited about this one. They were out when I first went to order it, but when I checked a few weeks later, it was back, yay!

So this is very good, reminds me of matcha ice cream. Definitely sweeter than the matchas from RLT, which I like. The only thing is that I am not getting any strawberry, like none. I ordered two other strawberry teas from them and the strawberry is VERY obvious, so I’m not sure if I got a bad batch or if this is what it is always like? This is really good, but it would be so much better with their strawberry flavour.

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6444 tasting notes

After the vegetal overload of the matcha au lait – caramel, I decided to cut the amount of “leaf” in half which meant I used 1 tsp (which is still double what I would have used without guidance from the company. Unfortunately this was still too grassy and the strawberry flavor too sweet (and artificial) for my tastes. This too will be passed along and I think I will stick to Lupicia teas and Red Leaf Tea’s matcha in the future. Nonetheless I am super appreciative of Dustin giving me the opportunity to try something new so thank you Dustin!!

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2816 tasting notes

My breakfast today is heavenly – I made a smoothie with this matcha, an entire 2 cups of strawberries, banana, chia seeds, soymilk, and some cashew “cream” I made last night.

Really yummy and delicious – tastes almost like a dessert. I am getting that Vitamin C in today! Lots of it!

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1711 tasting notes

Tried this for the first time this morning and I think it is going to take some tweaking to get it right. I followed the instructions, but I didn’t get any strawberry and my cup was bitter even after adding a bit of extra sugar. I used my usual powdered goat milk, which has a flavor of it’s own, but shouldn’t have been able to drown out the strawberry. The first ingredient is sugar which makes me feel like I might not be getting that much matcha for the price. I don’t know… I’m not excited about this purchase, but I’ll try it a few more times before I give up on it.

Preparation
Boiling

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