Coffee Bean Direct Pinhead Gunpowder Loose Leaf Tea, 2 Pound Bag
August 12, 2015 - Comment
This is extra fine Pinhead Gunpowder tea, grown in China. It gets its name from its resemblance to gunpowder – the young green tea leaves are rolled into very small pellets before pan firing. Gunpowder is known for its strong flavor and dark colored brew. Product Features High-quality loose leaf tea leaves Contains full tea
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Gunpowder tea, but not pinhead gunpowder Was excited to see pinhead gunpowder tea as I have not been able to find any recently, especially not at this price. The tea that arrived was marked pinhead gunpowder, but I was disappointed to find it was simply generic gunpowder tea. The difference between the two is the size of the rolled leaf – pinhead, as the name implies, is very small – only a couple of millimeters; this was much larger and while not a bad tea for the price, wasn’t what I expected.
Decent tea at an unbelievable price First off, I noticed a fair amount of sediment that was trapped in the leaves; it doesn’t seem to affect the flavor, but is definitely off-putting as it found its way thorough my teapot’s mesh filter. This is my only real complain; however, due to the extremely low price I’m willing to forgive this aesthetic issue. The flavor is great, and you can get two to three good infusions from a set of leaves; use warm (~165 F) water for the first infusion, and allow the temperature to rise by a few…
Explosive! Tea In case you have never brewed gunpowder or wonder why the name: This tea is very dry and the leaves are small and rolled tight. When the hot water hits the leaves, they “explode” – they swell to many times their original size. Thus, the name gunpowder refers more to the dry preparation technique of the leaves and the way they expand than it does to thy type of leaves or their taste. Warning, if you brew this tea (or any other gunpowder) use about 1/2 or 1/4 the amount that you would use with…