Genmaicha

#tiffanys2021sipdown Tea #26

Sun Jan 24… a non-descript pitcher of tea (brewed hot, added cold water, then put in fridge). I like genmaicha but this one is just fine no additional flavors or anything. Pleasant but nothing to write home about.

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Even though I’m not the biggest green tea fan, I think there’s too little of it in this blend. The majority of the blend is made up of rice, so the cup turns out a very light colour with light toasted rice flavour and not much backbone. It’s not a bad genmaicha though, just not really my thing.

I like the light flavor of the green and the toasty rice flavor.

I’m owning up to the fact I have not been making the best food choices lately. I must avoid the teachers lounge! My stomach is the first one to tell me “time to get it together girl!”.
Anyways, this one is surprisingly good and it is settling my stomach at the same time.
I just made my first order with 52Teas and included the marshmallow genmaicha so I am really looking forward to that one! I hope all your cuppas runneth over today! =)

SIpdown Challenge National Popcorn Day:
I drank Movie Night the other day so I pulled this one out for today. I love Genmaicha it’ has such a lovely toasted rice flavor. It’s also pretty cheap which is a bonus. I really like teas that taste like rice. I’m gonna drink this and try to relax while taking another test. This is one of those teas that I like to recommend to new tea drinkers.

It’s toasty.

Wow! Had my first taste of genmaicha this morning. Even after reading most of the tasting notes here I was still quite shocked by the taste. It tastes exactly like puffed wheat! And with the sea-weedy green tea it reminds me a lot of soup broth. Very strange, but I’m really enjoying it. The steeping instructions online at DT stated 1-2 PS for 16oz in HOT water while the tea packet stated 1.25 tsp at 86 degrees C for 2-3 minutes with no water volume given. I have a 14oz cup so I did just under 1 PS at 80 degrees for 2 minutes. For the resteep I added on 30 more seconds. Both came out very good, although the second cup wasn’t as wheaty as the first.

Note: I got 4 steeps in total! The wheat came back for the 3rd and 4th. It lost the soup-like qualities and got more sweet.

I hated this tea. For one it smells absolutely awful. Unfortunately I bought it in bulk (not really knowing much about tea at the time) and I’m finally almost done with it! I get embarrassed steeping it because it smells like burnt rice. The taste is what you’d expect from a general green tea (but not amazing). I am happy to be rid of it soon.

Nice, smooth green tea. Lacks the bitterness that I usually dislike in green tea. Pleasantly surprised by this one. Would buy to have on hand.

i think this must be one of those things that either you hate it or love it. Personally, I thought this tea tasted like watery burned popcorn. very mild. i made another cup with some rock sugar and it tasted a bit like kettle corn, which i despise.