Gunpowder Green Tea
Do you need a license to buy Gunpowder Green Tea?
Gunpowder Green Tea makes a clear, bright infusion
Do you need a “Conceal and Carry” permit to coax the bracing flavors of this tea from its curled leaves? If you leave it on the shelf for a while, will it combust and explode?
Nah. Here’s a better question: can you think of a better, more versatile green tea?
You can’t! Gunpowder Green Tea makes a perfect base for drinks like Moroccan Mint Tea. And enjoyed on its own, it has a full-bodied, direct taste that makes it an ideal everyday tea. It’s easy to brew, pleasant to taste, and stays fresh longer than most greens.
Gunpowder Green Tea gets its name from its specially-rolled leaves
The tightly-rolled leaves unfurl in the pot
Or maybe from the Chinese phrase gāng paò de,which means “freshly brewed.”
Either way, it has been perfected over centuries of Chinese tea making. The leaves were first rolled to keep it fresh over long trade routes, and now give it a distinctive look of real gunpowder! Along with my favorite name for a tea, next to orange pekoe tea.
Most green teas give you a boost of energy mixed with calm. Gunpowder tea has all the benefits of other teas, with a bracing taste that makes it a good morning tea.
Because it is loose leaf tea, not tea bags, this green tea can be reused for a second pot. Just rebrew the leaves with water that’s a little cooler than what you first brewed it in.
This Green Tea Is Versatile and Pure-Tasting
Because it has a direct, almost simple flavor, gunpowder green tea benefits from slight additions. One of the best is mint.
In fact, this Chinese tea has become the base for the minty tea of the Tuarag in Northern Africa. Brewed with generous helpings of sugar and mint leaves, it’s a low caffeine tea that refreshes in the hot Sahara deserts.
What’s more, drinking green tea has been linked to good health. It’s a natural food with no additives– just fresh water and tea leaves. And with abundant antioxidants like EGCG, green tea has become widely known as a “superfood” along with blueberries and almonds.
Best of all, you can make stupid jokes all day about drinking gunpowder. How can you resist? I couldn’t! Even though it tastes nothing like the explosive compounds that send bullets a-flying…
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