This was pleasant surprise.
I took this tea bag with same thoughts about last ones. It won’t be tasty, it will be maybe very spicy, it will be hardly any good tea base.
NONE OF ABOVE
I used even warmer water than they recommend. On the bag is 100°C, I used 90°C, they have on website 75-80°C.
Hardly any matcha? Well, it is in paper bag and some green tea dust is actually going off the bag. So, some matcha is apparently in. It was very spice present too, when dry.
I put the bag in the cup, let it in for minute and half (yes, that short — mostly because of higher temperature and I did not wanted too strong, buttery cuppa)
It was mostly cloves I noticed, but as well ginger and bit of cinnamon. The base was present too! Especially it was quite grassy and not buttery at all. There was little dust of matcha on the bottom, so I was whisking the cup with a teaspoon.
I won’t classify it as a matcha actually. But as green tea with chai? Pleasant surprise!
On the other news:
My granma is going home today afternoon. Actually in the time I am writing this line, she will be in our car and my brother drives home!
Flavors: Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, Grass
Great news! I was thinking about your grandma yesterday and wondered how she was doing. Glad she is going home!
That’s wonderful to hear, Martin!
Celebrating with you! Grandmas need to be cherished as much as possible.
Thank you everyone! She says that her sight is bit worse (while reading), and still sometimes she forgot a word (like losing a word in sentence in foreign language) and it seems that it was caused by heart arrhythmia. But as I said, it’s still great, especially when she is 79 years old!
Good to hear your grandma is doing well! A bunch of us tea-people were thinking of her. :D
Good to hear she is coming home.
Hurray!
Thank you tea-sipper, mrmopar and derk! She is doing well, yesterday she had few medical check-ups, she get some over-counter medicine including some injections. Her GP was surprised that she had it. Well, we were surprised as well.