葉桐 Chá verde japonês Sencha Fukamushi 333 g

Low-Medium quality sencha at a very good price

If you’re accustomed to green tea in tea bags, this will be a delight. And even if you’re used to a higher grade loose leaf Japanese green, you will be familiar with how expensive they are.Unlike very inexpensive tea bags, the sencha flavor can be tasted in this tea. However there are also some slightly dusty & seaweed notes that are reminiscent of cheap tea bags; thankfully it is not the overpowering or dominant flavor. It is because the tea has not been properly cared for in order to arrive very fresh — but this is to be expected at this price. It would be several times more expensive to have fresher leaves.I’m able to get two good steeps out of this tea. My steeping method is:Steep1: 165F for 2 minutes using 1tsp for 6oz waterSteep2: 185F for 75 secondsThis tea is my weekday morning drinker, so that I can save the special tea for the weekend. However if you are new to loose leaf tea or Japanese tea, you may find this to be very special.

Super Tee für den Preis

Schmeckt sehr lecker, hatte schon viele japanische Tees wo 100 gram 20 Euro kosten die schlechter waren.

My new favorite daily tea

UPDATE: I’m on my 12th bag and have been drinking this religiously. I keep seeing reviews about the tea being bitter, so I wanted to include my brewing procedure.I use 40g of tea per liter of water, which is heated to 176°F. I brew it for no longer than 2 minutes. You will get bitterness if you brew it any hotter or longer.I’m still in love with this tea. Its extremely smooth and delicious with high caffeine content.ORIGINAL:I drink green tea every night during my 3rd shift to replace energy drinks. Ive been searching for a quality, bulk sencha that doesnt taste like the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff you usually get with ‘bulk’ tea.Besides the bag being sliced upon arrival, I am extremely impressed by this tea, especially for the price. Very aromatic. Sweet, grassy, umami. The quality is surprisingly close to my topshelf sencha. Beautiful deep-green tea leaves.Definitely follow the instructions for brewing time and temp or you will most likely get some bitterness.My new go-to!

Great Sencha at a much lower price, when brewed correctly

At the time I bought this, it was almsot 2$ an ounce, which is far less than most other brands are selling it for. The sencha is good quality, and tastes just like any other sencha ive had before. If you brew it properly, it will not be bitter.(Edit: After tasting some better quality sencha from places like Sugimoto and Ippodo, I can definitely see why some people consider this to be lower quality or not as good. It’s not bad, but compared to high quality sencha it has far less umami and a lot more astringency per cup. However, if you just want some sencha to drink every day and don’t care about getting something premium, this still tastes good and the price definitely makes it worth it.)For sencha, I brew it by pouring 12 oz of water thats 175 degrees Fahrenheit* over 2 tsp of sencha and letting it steep for 1 minute, then pouring into the cup to serve. I do a second steep with the same leaves at 45 seconds, and then a third at 30 seconds**. If you want a nice flavor, use a kyusu teapot and cover with lid while steeping***. Leave the teapot lid slightly off to let moisture and steam escape while the tea leaves are not steeping in between brews.You can experiment with how long to infuse your tea for your liking, as well as the proportions of water to tea, to get the flavor you like best.*Be sure not to use boiling water as this will scorch the leaves and cause them to release compounds that will make the tea taste bitter. It is best to take boiling water and cool it using a japanese water cooling vessel called a yuzamashi, as it is specifically designed for the purpose. Boiling the water before cooling it makes the water softer and much better for tea, instead of just heating the water directly to the right temperature and then stopping. (Water softness has to do with the amount of dissolved hard minerals in it, and boiling removes some of these hard minerals for a better taste)**Multiple short infusions are preferred here because the water remains the correct temperature throughout most of the brewing process, and provides the best extraction for this type of tea by controlling how much bitter compounds get released into the tea. If you were to use one long infusion like 4 to 5 minutes and then throw the leaves out after, you would be a much colder temperature by the time the infusion was done, and the tea would be very bitter.***You can use any porcelain or clay teapot if you have one as long as it has a lid, but be sure to strain the leaves and put them back in the teapot. A kyusu is better though because it doesnt move the leaves around as much as it has a built in strainer. Moving the leaves around too much risks releasing more of those bitter compounds and making the tea taste bitter.

Flavor dissipates so fast after opening the bag

This is a loose leaf green tea, I expected more flavor, but it dissipated so quickly after opening the bag. I only used not even 1/3 of the bag and threw it away. I didn’t want to drink the tea with no flavor. I won’t recommend it, I know I won’t buy this again.

Hopefully you can read Japanese

I installed an app that said it would help me learn Japanese so I can brew this tea. Instead, an evil green owl broke my knees. 5/5Edit: I’ve brewed this tea enough times to write a real review finally. I’m definitely buying more soon. Still 5/5 easily.As you can see from the pic, the leaves are pretty broken and there’s quite a bit of fannings and dust, but very few stems! I’d absolutely rather pay for fannings than stems any day of the week! Given that cheap looseleaf teas can easily be half stems, this is an incredible value.I also use this tea exclusively for cold brew, where broken leaves and fannings are totally fine. If anything, you should chop up large leaves for cold brew, so this tea is perfect! 16 grams of tea in a 2 qt mason jar of cold or room temp water, shake and swirl gently, steep for 5-8 hours in the fridge, filter through a very fine reusable coffee filter or paper filter (mesh tea filters leave quite a bit of sediment), and it ends up fantastic. Very mild and refreshing as is, with just a hint of astringency, and it can easily stand up to a squeeze of lemon and a touch of sweetener. It’s just about the most refreshing iced tea I’ve ever had, that way. You can go up to around 24 grams per 2 quarts for stronger tea, but I wouldn’t go any higher.Also, it brews up very yellow, exactly as pictured. Last pic shows cold brewed sencha next to hot brewed gunpowder green (different brand), with identical weight of leaves and water.This stuff is exactly as Amazon’s pictures show! I really can’t stress how important that is, considering the number of bags of “cheap” tea I’ve bought, only to get a bag of mostly stems. This is the only one that looks identical to the seller’s pic of the leaves!助けを送ってください、フクロウは去らない

The real deal

Nice, big bag. One whiff of the tea leaves and we’re already hooked. It’s exactly like the quality sencha we frequently drank in Japan. 👍