Bloei Tropisch is a Sencha green tea with candied pineapple, papaya, rose petals and passionflower. Brewed cold, it is a clear, honey-gold iced tea. Brewed hot at 80 °C it is exactly the same tea, but rounder and softer — for when it's grey outside. The same leaves, two seasons.
How it tastes
Ripe pineapple and papaya up front, underneath the grassy Sencha and a floral note of rose. Cold it is fresher and brighter, hot fuller and rounder. Never bitter — as long as you keep the water at 80 °C.
About the sweetness
The pineapple and papaya are candied. That is where the sweetness sits, and that is why we make no 'no added sugar' claim for this tea. What it does not contain: lemonade syrup, artificial flavourings, colourings and preservatives. The taste comes from the pieces of fruit themselves.
About the colour
The cup turns honey gold — warm yellow, clear. Not orange, not red.
When to brew it
Cold brew: put a jug in the fridge in the evening and it is ready in the morning. Hot: as a first cup or mid-afternoon. Sencha contains caffeine, so better not late in the evening.
How to brew
Cold brew (jug): 2 tablespoons to 1 litre of cold water, 6–8 hours in the fridge. Then strain and serve, with ice if you like.
Hot: 2 teaspoons per cup, water at 80 °C, 3 minutes. Hotter water makes the Sencha bitter.
Ingredients: Sencha green tea, lemongrass, candied pineapple, papaya, rose petals, lemon peel, passionflower (3%), marigold.
Contents: 100 g loose tea. Contains caffeine.
No artificial flavourings, colourings or preservatives.
