You probably have heard of flavored tea brewing? This is the combination between different flavors with different tea to obtain a more unique fragrance and taste.
What is it?
Nowadays, you can combine fruit and tea directly by placing the fruit in the tea water. Check this out!
However, in the history of tea, flavored tea was obtained by planting the fruit plants around the tea plants in such a way that the tea leaves would absorb the fragrance of the fruits when harvested.
There are numerous flavors you can add to your tea. Common flavors that are available in the market include fruits such as bananas, apricot, cherry, cinnamon, coconut, ginger, lemon, jasmine, rose, licorice, plum, rose, vanilla, strawberry, and apple… It seems as if you can use almost all kinds of the fruits to scent and flavor your tea.
How to brew this tea?
When flavor tea brewing, you can just follow the regular guideline for brewing green, black, oolong, or white tea. In the market, flavored tea is available right in the package. However, some people would like to create a signature flavor tea of their own.
It’s actually a nice experience when you try to select which fruit could go with which tea. There is lots of room for your creativity in this area since there are numerous kind of fruits for you to choose.
Just in case you don’t know how to brew different kind of bases tea, here are some help. You can even read more about this on Brewing/teapots button on the navigation bar.
One thing to remember, however, each tea is processed differently. Thus each kind of tea like green, white, red, black, and oolong taste a bit different. Due to this diverse in taste, you must experiment a bit before you can find the right combination of fruit and tea.
But thus I will list here some guidelines for flavor tea brewing to save you some time in the quest of finding the perfect pair of fruit and tea.
For green tea, the leaves aren’t processed. The tea tastes somewhat grassy and a bit savory. Nevertheless, the taste of green tea is subtle compared to other tea, thus you can use weakly fragrant flowers to scent the tea. The most popular flavored tea brewing is Jasmine green tea.
Black tea on the other hand is extremely bitter. Thus in order to scent this kind of tea, you would have to use strongly fragrant fruit or flowers such as rose or cinnamon. You probably would have to scent the tea many more time so the fragrance of the flowers can be detected after you brewed the tea.
Oolong tea is a type of green tea. Its taste is a bit bolder than green tea. Thus, you can use the same guidelines as green tea. Oolong can sometimes paired with light fragrant fruit like apple, coconut, or bananas.
White tea tastes the mildest among all tea. If you drink white tea the first time, you would think that you are drinking flavored water. But after a while, you can begin to sense other tastes. Because white tea’s taste is so weak, it’s best to choose weak fragrant fruits or flowers so you don’t lose the taste of the tea after brewed. Some suggestions would be coconut, vanilla, or jasmine.
Throughout this article, Jasmine tea seems to come up often. The reason is that Jasmine now is used to scent not only green tea, but also black tea and oolong tea. The fragrance of jasmine blossoms are very soothing and relax that it becomes the most popular flavor in flavored tea brewing.
So there you go, there are numerous many fruits and many teas for you to select. If you want to try the Jasmine tea to see why people like this so much, you can. But if not, you can buy a small package of different teas and experiment with them.
Happy flavored tea brewing. This can be a very nice experience, not to mention the feeling of creating unique flavor to serve at your next party…
