Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
Mango is a flavorful tropical fruit. The only improvement we could think of is to combine it with our rich Sencha. Fresh Sencha flavor and sweet Mango will bring a tropical summer treat to your tea time.
Learn more about this cold-brewed tea here.
Taster’s Review:
Refreshing!
Of the different cold-brewed iced teas offered from Den’s Tea, this one might just be my new favorite!
What I’m liking so much about it is that just like the others that I’ve tried, the green tea is the strongest flavor… and here, the green tea tastes a bit more vegetative than the others that I’ve tried, and I’m really liking the rich flavor of the Japanese Sencha. Sweet, slightly grassy, and a buttery background note. Delicious!
The mango flavor is not a super strong flavor, but it is by no means what I’d call delicate, either. I’d say it’s pretty evenly matched, with the vegetative taste of the Sencha and hint of Matcha edging out the mango just a bit. The mango tastes lusciously sweet, like a very ripe mango (no under-ripe fruit flavors here!)
I love these cold-brewed iced teas from Den’s. They are so refreshing, and I love how they go so well with a meal, but also taste so good that I want to drink them on their own too. I also like that they don’t need to be sweetened! These cold-brewed tea bags are simple, convenient, and produce a really flavorful iced tea. That’s a win-win… or should I say win-win-win?
Mint Iced Green Tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
This is a new formula of our Mint Iced Green Tea. Two all natural mints, peppermint and spearmint, were cut and blended with Sencha tea leaves. The mint has a relaxing and calming effect and is a great thirst quencher.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
Oh, man, I am LOVING these cold-brew iced teas from Den’s Tea. Yeah, yeah, I know that they’re bagged teas, but, I just love how convenient it is to cold-brew these teas. I just plunk five bags into my half-gallon iced tea pitcher along with a half gallon of freshly filtered, cool water and seal the lid, and stash it in my fridge. The next morning, I have a pitcher full of delicious, refreshing iced tea.
And this Mint Iced Tea from Den’s doesn’t really need anything more than that! No sugar or other sweetener, nothing. It’s got a pleasant sweetness to it without anything more added, and it has a cool, crisp minty taste that adds to the overall refreshment of the glass of iced tea.
The green tea is the strongest flavor, and that’s the way it should be. The green tea tastes vibrant and clean with a sweet, vegetative taste. I like that the mint flavor – a combination of both peppermint and spearmint – is also strong, but it doesn’t overpower the green tea. That happens all too often with mint teas … the mint flavor becomes so dominate that all one can taste is the mint. I drink tea because I like tea, not for the added flavors. The added flavors do add a little something extra, but really, when it comes right down to it, it’s all about the tea for me … and I like that it’s all about the tea with Den’s tea, too.
A very refreshing way to cool off during these hot summer days!
Pear Iced Green Tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
Pear’s sweetness and freshness are harmonized with full-bodied Sencha flavor. Den’s Pear Iced Green Tea is the most popular flavored iced green tea among our development team.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I love pears, but it is one of those “less common” kind of fruits, especially when it comes to fruit flavored teas. It’s become pretty easy to find strawberry or peach flavored teas, for example … but I don’t come across as many pear flavored teas. And I think I know why: it’s not an easy flavor to capture with tea. The flavor of the fruit tends to be a delicate one anyway, so to flavor tea with pear essence is not an easy feat. More often than not, the resulting pear flavored tea ends up tasting like artificial pear or not like pear at all. I’ve only tasted maybe a handful of pear flavored teas that ended up tasting true to the fruit.
Well, add this one to that handful! Because this does taste true to the fruit while still managing to maintain the presence of the green tea. In fact, the green tea is the strongest flavor of this tea, and it is sweet and tastes lushly green – very vibrant and yet calm … just like the color itself.
But the pear is also strong – deliciously strong – without tasting fake. No odd flavors here, nothing tastes off. It tastes like deliciously smooth, vegetative Japanese Sencha and sweet, juicy pear.
Oh… and did I mention just how refreshing it is? It’s been so hot lately, it’s finally cooling down, but it is still rather warm. But gulping this tea helps keep me cool and hydrated! So good that you won’t even think about how good it is for you. But it is … so you don’t have to worry about that, either!
Peach Iced Green tea from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
The fruitful Peach flavor plays second string to the Sencha flavor. With the first sip you sense a sweet and sour taste then the taste of a premium Sencha comes though.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I’m really loving the tea I’m producing using the cold-brewing method, and since I finished the last of the Southern Boy Teas a few days ago, I decided that I needed something else that was easy to cold-brew. At about that same time, I saw that Den’s Tea had these great cold-brew green iced teas so I decided to try a few of them. This is the first of four that I’ll be trying over the next couple of weeks.
I let this brew overnight (this is one of the things I love best about cold-brewing tea, I just let it do it’s thing overnight, then in the morning, I have iced tea, already good and chilled and ready to drink), and even after a good 12 hours of brewing, it did not become bitter.
The sencha is vegetative and stands out as the strongest flavor. The touch of Matcha enhances the vegetative tones and gives the tea a nicely smooth flavor. The tea offers a savory tone that contrasts with the sweet, juicy flavor of the peach.
This is so well-rounded: sweet, a little sour, and savory. It has a very satisfying, refreshing flavor that doesn’t need sweetener – which is a big plus in my book. And while it is sweet, it doesn’t come off as cloying. It doesn’t taste too vegetative. It has a really pleasing complexity.
This is not your average glass of iced tea!
Apple Sencha from Den’s Tea
Tea Information:
Leaf Type: Green
Where to Buy: Den’s Tea
Tea Description:
The combination of dried apple bits and apple flavor make Apple Sencha is a great option to apple cider on a cold evening. It offers the pleasure of sweet-sour apple with Sencha flavor. Also great for iced tea.
Learn more about this tea here.
Taster’s Review:
I was really excited to try this flavored Sencha. Back when I was still flavoring and blending teas, I had a green apple flavored green tea, and I’ve been hoping to find one that I like as well as I did that one. I’m keeping my fingers crossed here!
Mmm! This is good! It is different than my blend, but then, I kind of expected it to be, because this is a Japanese Sencha and my blend was made using a blend of Chinese green teas. But the apple flavoring is very good – almost cider like, but without the spices. I like that the apple flavor is very true to the fruit – it is a little bit sweet, and a little bit sour, and there is such a crispness to the cup as well … just like biting into a fresh, crunchy apple!
This tea has a very autumnal feel to it – then again, apples always make me think of “back to school” and the month of September… fall. But, at the same time, it tastes light and crisp – almost spring-like too! A lovely tea that can be enjoyed any time of year!
This is one that deserves a place in my cupboard. I like it a lot!