Introducing Mindful Mint Chai
Looking for something new for your tea menu? Whatever the weather, we have a chai blend that will please. For example, our new Mindful Mint Chai is a delightful tea with Japanese toasted green tea, aka hojicha, as its base. Then we’ve added mellow and cooling, spearmint, zippy ginger, sweet cinnamon, bright green cardamom pods, a touch of fennel seed, cloves, and warming black peppercorn. The result is a tea that offers both both cooling and warming effect – cooling for the mind and warming for the body. It is at once grounding and uplifting.
Served hot, it can warm old bones on a chilly morning, but we also found it delightful when served cold in latte form on those warm spring afternoons. It offers a low amount of caffeine which makes it perfect for gentle nudges when focusing on a task or for when that mid-afternoon energy dip starts to sink in. We also love it for post yoga practice and pre-meditation, or when you feel the dampness of a rainy day
For brewing, we like it at 195F/90C to open the spices with a short three-minute steep time to honor the hojicha. Feel free to experiment with your own parameters to please your customers and any recipes you devise. Tea is flexible and eager to please! Available now for our wholesale customers! Namaste!