Oolong Berry Blend

All about Oolong Berry Blend, Loose Leaf Oolong Tea

What it’s like, and how to make it

CaffeineLow caffeine

TypeOolong

FlavourBerry

CharacterSweet

What’s in itoolong tea, cornflowers, strawberry pieces, raspberry pieces

Perfect for

Beginners
Iced

How to brew it

195°F / 90°C
Steep 3–5 minutes
Use 1 tsp per 8oz
Re-steep three or four times; it changes character with every round

Beyond the cup

Berry oolong makes gorgeous iced tea – cold brew overnight and it’s summer in a glass. The berry-oolong combo also makes a great kombucha starter if you’re into that. Steep strong and reduce with a little sugar for a berry tea syrup that works in cocktails, on pancakes, or drizzled over vanilla ice cream.

Oolong Berry Blend loose leaf tea, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration

Illustration: Oolong Berry Blend with a family berry patch in July long ago

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

Tea · Contains caffeine

Oolong Tea
Camellia sinensis
Partly oxidised — anywhere between a green tea and a black one, which is why no two oolongs taste alike. A green Anxi oolong is floral and creamy; a roasted Wuyi one is dark, mineral and almost woody. It is the most rewarding tea to...
Orchid, honey, stone fruit and toasted grain, with a mineral finish; creamy in the Taiwanese cultivars
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Flower · Caffeine-free

Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
The blue in your tea. Cornflower petals are in eighteen products here and they are there to be looked at: the pigment, protocyanin, is one of the few真 blues in the botanical world, and it survives drying where almost nothing else blue does. They contribute...
Almost nothing — a faint clove-like sweetness at most. It is in the blend for the blue
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Strawberry
Fragaria × ananassa
Dried strawberry pieces and sometimes the leaf — ten products carry one or the other, and they are not the same ingredient. The fruit brings sweetness and that unmistakable jammy smell; the leaf brings a mild, slightly tannic, tea-like character and no strawberry flavour at...
Sweet and jammy with a fresh, almost green edge; the leaf is mild, tannic and tea-like
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Fruit · Caffeine-free

Raspberry
Rubus idaeus
The dried fruit — distinct from raspberry leaf, which is a herbal ingredient with its own profile and no raspberry flavour whatsoever. The berry is sharp, perfumed and fragile: it brings the highest, brightest note in a berry blend, and it is the first thing...
Sharp, bright and perfumed; the highest note in a berry blend and the first to fade
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What it goes with

Berry tea with backbone. Sip with chocolate desserts, goat cheese salads, or lemon cake. Pair Vanilla Bean for berry-vanilla baking, or Cinnamon for a spiced berry iced tea that’s better than sangria.

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