Mellow Monk Releases Cold-Brewed Iced Green Tea Pouches

Mellow Monk's Green Teas has released cold-brewed iced green tea pouches. Using innovative tea-processing and tea-pouch technology, Mellow Monk's Cold-Brewed Green Tea Pouches contain authentic Japanese loose-leaf green tea, not instant tea. The ultrafine-mesh nylon pouches allow green tea aficionados to brew a pitcher of iced green tea without boiling water. This product is the only one of its kind currently sold in the United States.

Livermore, CA (PRWEB) August 31, 2007 -- Mellow Monk's Green Teas has released a new green tea product that is the first of its kind in the U.S.: cold-brewed iced green tea pouches.

Each ultrafine-mesh pouch of Mellow Monk's Cold-Brewed Iced Green Tea contains Japanese green tea specially processed for cold brewing, allowing green tea aficionados to brew a pitcher of iced green tea without having to boil the water first.

As far as I know, these are the only cold-brewed iced green tea pouches available in the United States

This is something that the grower, Koji Nagata, of Nagata Chaen (Aso City, Japan), has come up with just recently after much experimentation, and we're as excited about it as he is.

For lovers of iced green tea, this is revolutionary

Ordinarily, if you wanted to enjoy iced green tea made from quality loose-leaf tea, that meant boiling water then waiting and waiting for the tea to cool. With our new tea, you just add a pouch or two to room-temperature water, stir briefly, then put the pitcher in the refrigerator. An hour or so later, you've got a pitcher of cold, healthy, thirst-quenching iced green tea. How cool is that?

The tea pouches used are not flat but instead have a three-dimensional pyramidal shape, which allows more thorough infusion at lower water temperatures. The tea itself is also put through an extra processing step for cold-water brewing. In addition, unlike paper or cloth tea bags, the tea pouch's ultrafine mesh is conducive to better water inflow and outflow, which allows larger-sized tea leaves. This, in turn, permits a larger surface-area-to-volume ratio, so that the tea's natural aromatic and flavor-enhancing compounds, along with EGCG and other healthful compounds, infuse into the water ahead of the flavor-distorting compound that can leach out more quickly at lower surface-area-to-volume ratios.

"As far as I know, these are the only cold-brewed iced green tea pouches available in the United States," says Paul Kotta, co-founder and co-owner of Mellow Monk's Green Teas, a brand owned by Livermore, CA-based K4 Enterprises, LLC. "This is something that the grower, Koji Nagata, of Nagata Chaen (Aso City, Japan), has come up with just recently after much experimentation, and we're as excited about it as he is."

"For lovers of iced green tea, this is revolutionary," Mr. Kotta adds. "Ordinarily, if you wanted to enjoy iced green tea made from quality loose-leaf tea, that meant boiling water then waiting and waiting for the tea to cool. With our new tea, you just add a pouch or two to room-temperature water, stir briefly, then put the pitcher in the refrigerator. An hour or so later, you've got a pitcher of cold, healthy, thirst-quenching iced green tea. How cool is that?"

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