Green Tea with Jasmine

Jasmine is great, this is my daily bedtime drinker. Simply boil water, plop in a teabag. No sugar, honey, milk or other sweetener is needed.
That was easy.

7/11/2013 – 50 Teabags take a lot of time to sipdown, but so far I’ve enjoyed this tea. This is a bagged tea that has no staples, string, or tag.
I really found that Taylors of Harrogate has a nice selection of teas that are affordable, in local grocery stores, and tasty.

Fairly good green tea and the teabag is the more eco friendly kind as well. It has a very strong jasmine flavor, which if you like jasmine you will love. I actually am not a huge jasmine fan or when I do have it I like it to be a little more subtle. Still its pretty good for teabag tea and it definitely clears the palette, it borders on medicinal.

I bought this in a sample box with other bagged tea from T of H. I thought it was a little bland. I think I enjoy jasmine best with black teas. I have had jasmine with greens that I’ve liked. This is okay for being bagged.

The jasmine really came out in this and I thought it tasted really good! Although I couldn’t really taste any of the green tea flavor. But I didn’t mind, I wanted to taste the jasmine.

A sipdown! (M: 7, Y: 7)
Sipdown prompt: A grocery store blend — correct me if wrong?!

And steeped for 2 minutes in 80°C water, so definitely not oversteeped with wrong tea temperature. Thank you anyway for new tea bag wrappers for my collection. That counts and that is a positive thing.

Picked this up from TJ Maxx as I needed a cheap and convenient bagged jasmine green for homemade taro bubble tea. It certainly served the purpose but I was surprised at how good it tastes on its own. It has a fresh, clean jasmine flavor without the bitterness or weird taste that low grade jasmine tea usually has. You don’t really taste the green tea base but that’s fine by me. I just want the flavor of pure jasmine flowers in my cup.

That said, it’s best to throw out the teabag after a couple of minutes as it infuses quickly and turns astringent if left in the mug. In a side by side tasting, my Yunnan Sourcing jasmine dong ting bi luo chun still blows this way but it’s not really fair to compare it to a loose leaf tea. By bagged tea standards, it’s more than serviceable.

More from my Christmas tea bag sampler. I tend to like to drink greens mid afternoon for a pick me up. After spending the day arguing with our heating system (I think I won) I decided to warm up with some tea.

I do like the Jasmine in this tea. I think I would like this even more if it was loose leaf. Not sure I’d buy it for myself but if it was offered in a restaurant or at a friend’s, I would have it with no complaint.

Looking back at another favorable ToH review from years ago. Let’s see how things stack up after my loose-leaf revelation of late.

Well, it’s a bit flat. Not unpleasant, but it does have an air of hotel lobby tea about it. The bag convenience is there and in body it is light and sweet/astringent.

Chucking a bag in the cup, it was convenient to brew and only took 2 minutes of hot water. I haven’t had bagged Jasmine in some time so the difference between this and the loose-leaf stuff is night and day to my current palate. Still, I wouldn’t mind this being in the hotel lobby. As I like to say: better than Lipton!

Now I’m thinking I might have to stick with bagged black teas and break out the tea infusers if I want a single cup of green, western style.

I don’t like green tea and I don’t like this tea. :( I told my boyfriend not to get me tea gifts anymore. lol