Naturally Grown Regular Hojicha ID 9161

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Almond, Coriander Seed, Green Wood, Nutty, Oak, Roast Nuts, Roasted, Roasted Barley, Roasted Nuts, Smooth, Sugarcane, Sweet, Toasted, Wood
Sold in
Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by kristinalee
Average preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 8 oz / 236 ml

Currently unavailable

We don't know when or if this item will be available.

From Our Community

1 Image

0 Want it Want it

0 Own it Own it

1 Tasting Note View all

  • “This is my first hojicha, so I can’t really compare it to any others. It’s a green tea, but I really like it. It’s nutty and toasty without tasting at all burnt. The aftertaste is sweet. But it’s...” Read full tasting note
    84

From Yunomi

At Ogose Tea Garden, each tea field produces tea specifically for one product. There is a tea field for only houjicha where cultivation, harvesting, and processing is done exclusively for houjicha. First flush tea leaves, usually used for sencha, is made into houjicha. This creates the rich flavor and the beautiful color of amber.

About Yunomi View company

Company description not available.

1 Tasting Note

84
71 tasting notes

This is my first hojicha, so I can’t really compare it to any others. It’s a green tea, but I really like it. It’s nutty and toasty without tasting at all burnt. The aftertaste is sweet. But it’s kind of a light sweetness, more like a pinch of cane sugar than honey. It has none of the bitterness associated with green tea, and it’s not at all grassy or vegetal — a really really great green for someone who doesn’t love most greens. There is really nothing at all unpleasant about this flavor. I don’t want to add anything to it.

I know that hojicha usually has twigs, but the Yunomi site lists only tea leaves as the ingredient. This is the first green tea I’ve ever really really liked.

The only issue is that green tea usually makes me nauseous. I drank this tea with a meal, and I’m feeling slightly off… But I’m not sure whether this is a reverse placebo thing, or if I’m genuinely having negative side effects right now. I will reserve judgment on whether or not this tea will be okay as a regular in my rotation. But I hope that I can drink it because it’s really really good. I’m tempted to buy some more right now — it’s that good.

I have read that Serious Green Tea Drinkers don’t take hojicha seriously, but I don’t care. It’s inexpensive, low in caffeine and really delicious. Perfect with meals. I’ll monitor how I feel for the next few hours after I finish drinking it — hoping the nausea ends quickly.

I also have a sample of Den’s hojicha on hand. I opened them both, and this one smelled a little sweeter and a lot less smoky, so I decided to try it first. The dry leaves smell kind of like roasted almonds. The wet leaves smell a bit like basil, but i tend to notice that about a lot of wet leaves with a lot of different kinds of teas, so I’m not sure it’s really significant here.

I thought that I would mainly think this was preferable to other green teas — I thought I’d think it was just okay, but honestly it’s one of the best new teas I’ve tried recently. I love it — must get more if it doesn’t make me sick.

Flavors: Almond, Coriander Seed, Green Wood, Nutty, Oak, Roast Nuts, Roasted, Roasted Barley, Roasted Nuts, Smooth, Sugarcane, Sweet, Toasted, Wood

Preparation
Boiling 0 min, 30 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
kristinalee

Tried this one again this morning with an additional 1/2 tsp. per cup. Taste is totally different. Now I taste mostly roasted nuts but not sweetness. I like it better the other way, but this is good too. I am not feeling nauseous.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.