Frontier Gunpowder Green Tea Organic, Fair Trade, 1 Pound
June 1, 2016 - Comment
A robust tea to pair with grilled vegetables, seafood, chicken and pork. Or try gunpowder in small sake cups with smoked salmon or mini pot stickers at a cocktail party. Product Features One pound bag Gunpowder green tea is a very brothy, green, slightly smoky, light-bodied tea Certified organic, Kosher Loose-leaf tea, non-irradiated Frontier is
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My favorite gunpowder tea. Frontier’s organic and fair trade gunpowder is consistently the best of the various brands I have tried. I brew a rounded teaspoon per 12 oz of 170 to 175 fresh water for 5-8 minutes. I find the shorter brewing time recommended on the package does not deliver the depth of flavor that I enjoy. With other brands the flavor seems too flat or too fragrant whereas the Frontier seems to have the perfect balance of grassy, leafy and smokey, and it is robust enough to benefit from longer brewing…
2.5 stars It appears to be a blend of two kinds of leaves (one as dark as fermented tea, second green as raw tea). It has quite a bit of tannin so much so that I prefer to drink second infusion. In addition this tea has a lot of small particles wrapped in leaves that are small enough to pass through my infuser.
Inexpensive – drinkable but not delicious This is definitely NOT tender young tea leaves! The tiny pellets open into pieces of what were originally very large tea leaves. The quality is commensurate with the cost. At least it is organic and that is a plus.