This week I was
sent some blue tea flowers from a start up company called Boho Chai. They’re on
Facebook and Twitter so are easy to track down. This is the world’s first blue
tea, is completely organic and is said to have many health benefits. Grown in
Thailand, this Butterfly Pea flower is absolutely, undeniably blue.
Wonderfully, unusually, weirdly blue.
I sampled the
signature tea, Bluechai, hot first, with nothing added, to see what its raw
taste was like. As the name would suggest there is something a little pea-like
in there. It is a smooth tea. Drinkable. Definitely something exotic in its
taste as well as in its rarity. I think it could take some people time to get
used to drinking a tea this vivid and I do wonder if the taste isn’t an
acquired one.
When adding
lemon, the acid turns the colour to purple or even pink if you really
lemon-it-up. I tried it hot and lemony then tested an iced version. A lovely
tipple for a sunny afternoon and a great conversation starter. The colour
change is really quite spectacular to see. I can honestly say I have never had
a tea quite like it before.
I would
certainly recommend giving it a try if you are like me and enjoy sampling
things you have not come across before. I think the winner has to be a warm cup
of Bluechai with honey and lemon added – the honey to cut across the tartness
of the lemon, and the lemon to pep up the taste as well as effecting that
beautiful hue shift.
Not a review,
per se, but I did enjoy seeing something in action that I have never seen
before, and that is certainly worth a blog. A tea to try!
Elloise Hopkins.
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