Organic Pineapple Green Tea

This is the sixth of eight organic teas from The Secret Garden, gifted to me by a beloved niece about a year ago. Two were black teas (already reviewed), and the other six were/are green tea. All eight featured being naturally flavored, tho none of them had any actual fruit pieces or peels included in the teabags. Sadly, this meant the flavors were muted, weak.

I am a lover of pineapple, and had really looked forward to trying this tea. I’m sorry to report this only worked if I used more teabags and less water. Last week we went out of town, so even though I made a decent small pot of this tea using FIVE teabags, I wasn’t able to review that batch at that time. I willl say this: it was much more flavorful over-using the number of bags relative to the volume of water. But the lovely gift box only contained 10 bags per tea type. I wanted to see how this would fare using a more normal volume of water per teabag. This was my one shot to do so.

I think the green tea is decent enough, though not outstanding. The pineapple flavor is hard to discern—unless, as I already said, one used more bags than normal. Even then, while there’s a nice “green” flavor, a little note of hay, the ‘hit’ of pineapple I was looking forward to was barely there using three bags in a small 18 oz teapot. I added a little sugar, but instead of bringing the pineapple forward, the only thing I could really taste was the sweetener. Disappointing, to say the least.

But using 5 bags in that small pot—THEN you can taste more pineapple, especially once some sweetener was added. The equation was very different then.
The other thing I did last week was to add the last two cups above (made stronger with the 5 teabags) to some Adagio Coconut Iced Tea. Fabulous!

In a nutshell (coconut shell?;-), by itself, one bag per cup, this tea is weak, not very flavorful, disappointing. BUT: If you use more teabags &/or mix it into other teas (especially a coconut tea), AND ice it—it’s improved very much!
It’s not a bad flavor, just not enough per teabag. I can’t recommend it, but I won’t go total ‘thumbs down’ on it, either.