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 Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:09 pm
Pithy Twigs Tea Journal TEAS TEAWARECurrent Equipped - Basic Teapot (lvl 1)  SKILL POINTSAbility:  Tea: Teaware: Unassigned:
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:35 pm
Rishi's Jasmine Pearl green tea review
Name of Tea: Rishi's Jasmin Pearl green tea
Initial appearance (what does the tea look like? Is it bagged? If it's loose leaf what is the shape of the leaves, color, etc: Loose leaf tea. Initial appearence is little leaves rolled up/weaved together into delicate little ball-shapes. Color of the leaves are a silvery-green. After you steep it, you will notice the balls have opened up into long, stringy leaves. The color of the tea is a deep rusty-golden color.
Aroma: Aroma prior to brewing is very strong; you can smell it through the little opening in the packaging. A sweet jasmine flowery kind of smell. Even after brewing it retains very much of its strong jasmine smell.
Flavor: I steeped it for a while, so it has a full/bold flavor. It's got a little bitter-bite to it as it hits the end of your tongue.
Overall rating: 9/10
I bought this at my local grocery store. I do about 1.5-2 tsp of leaves to 16 oz of water. Steep it at about 180F for 5-8mins, depending on how strong I feel like having it at the time. I usually like to steep mine longer than recommended to get a stronger flavor.
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:47 pm
Raspberry green tea review
The one note I have about this tea is I got it at a local health food store a while back. The leaves were all in a giant clear container and you scoop out as much as you want to purchase; so any manufacturer's packaging and such are lacking.
Name of Tea: Raspberry green tea (don't remember the official name)
Initial appearance (what does the tea look like? Is it bagged? If it's loose leaf what is the shape of the leaves, color, etc: Loose leaf tea. Initial appearance is little rectangular-shaped green and off-white leaves with very small bits of dried up raspberries. After brewing the leaves are bigger; raspberries are more poofy and lose most of their color. The tea itself is a raspberry-crimson color.
Aroma: Prior to brewing it has a medium fruity aroma. Smells like raspberries. After brewing it looses some of its fruity aroma, but if you sniff hard enough you can definitely tell it's a fruity tea.
Flavor: After brewing it has a milder fruity taste that is naturally sweet, but not overly bearing. Some might even consider drinking this without added sugar.
Overall rating: 8/10
This also makes a very good natural iced tea! In fact that's how I prefer to drink it most of the time. If It weren't for my sugar-addict BF, I would probably drink this tea chilled with no added sugar.
I think my portions were ~2L of water at 200-210F to 7-8 Tbsp of tea, steep about 6-8mins, depending on how strong you want your tea to be. I usually try error on the side of too strong because you can always dilute the tea, but in my opinion harder to make it stronger. If you like it sweetened, add about roughly 7-10Tbsp of sugar to your liking.
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:06 pm
If I may, can I upgrade my teapot to a Ceramic Gaiwan, please?
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:59 am
I would like to assign 2 points to Ability, 1 point to Tea, and 1 point to Teaware.
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