ACK! Argh! Ack! Erk! Argh!
Gunpowder + spearmint gum = spitty!
I made use of the random tea picker today and it suggested this generic gunpowder. Okay, that’s a fair suggestion, I thought, given my foray into japanese greens. Let’s see if I can spot a significant difference.
First of all the colour is way more yellow and non-radioactive. A deep, warm colour and not in the least bit toxic looking.
Smell has a prickly note. I’ve seen people who find this type of green a bit on the smoky side and I’ve never been able the get that. Maybe it’s that prickly note they experience as smoky. I find it more sort of… I want to say citrus-y but that’s not quite it. It’s not fruity as such. Maybe there’s a vague hint of smoke, but it’s not smoky.
Tastewise, it’s definitely different even if my tongue is still semi-paralysed by the unfortunate gum incident. It’s not at all the green vegetables in this one. This is more abstract in flavour. It doesn’t really taste that much of anything other than green tea. It’s sweeter than the japanese and it’s not as much an explosion of flavour. It’s rounded and just calmly fills the mouth.
This probably makes no sense to anybody other than me…
Maybe if it hadn’t been for the chewing gum, I could have been more specific. This, however, was not to be.
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I’m with you on the difficulty in finding the smoky in Gunpowder. It strikes me as a bit more roasty than smoky. But maybe it’s because it is so different than the smoky of Lapsang or even Keemun. Though I did get wet cigarette ash from GM’s Gunpowder so that probably counts.
I’m with you on the difficulty in finding the smoky in Gunpowder. It strikes me as a bit more roasty than smoky. But maybe it’s because it is so different than the smoky of Lapsang or even Keemun. Though I did get wet cigarette ash from GM’s Gunpowder so that probably counts.