Green · Meknès × West Lake
Moroccan Mint
Low caffeine
Zhejiang gunpowder green, fresh spearmint and sugar, poured high from a silver teapot. Hospitality in a glass.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 98 °C · 208 °F
- Leaf
- 5 g
- Water
- 350 ml
- First steep
- 5:00
- Each next steep
- +1:00
- Steeps
- 3
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
spearmint · fresh herbs · gunpowder smoke
Tasting notes
sweet · cooling · generous
Making
Plucking 
Firing 
Rolling 
Blending
Origins
- Meknès · the mint, the ritual
- West Lake, Hangzhou · the gunpowder leaf
Lore
Gunpowder green reached Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century and met the Maghreb's native mint. The marriage became a national ritual. Poured from height into small glasses, three rounds by custom, each sweeter than the last.
