STeaP #47: Finger Lickin’ Good STeaP #47: Finger Lickin’ Good
This week is features two very green teas; O-Cha.com’s Sencha Yutaka Midori (3 min, rumbling) and Mellow Monk’s Top Leaf (3 min, rumbling), both claimed to be top notch green teas from each company. Do both teas live up to the hype? Was this episode sponsored by KFC? (No.) Should it have been? (Yes.)
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Hi,
Just so you know, Yutaka Midori, like most Japanese sencha green teas, should only have been brewed for 1.5 to 2.0 minutes, and at a tad lower temperature. Three minutes is definitely too long, and 180F is about 10 degrees too high, it really makes a difference. It would have been much less bitter if brewed as suggested, you may want to try it again. Thank you for reviewing our green tea!
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The Yutaka Midori is also a “deep steamed” green tea, which has a cloudy characteristic. It is not dust, it’s supposed to be thick like that. Brew it for 1.5 minutes at 170F and you will get a much better brew. Hold of on the coffee filters, heh.
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Way over brewed the O-Cha Yutaka Midori. 160-170* in preheated pot for around a minute is perfect. It is a deeper steamed sencha, thus will be full of particulate. It is a rather brothy and full mouth feel sencha. Delicious!
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Maybe you guys have your parameters for brewin tea, but those might not apply to each and every tea, generally no green tea is brewed for 3 minutes, every sencha in the world would get bitter, please read some brewing instructions before you judge some product online, please try my instructions, use soft water and a japanese kyusu, use 7 gramms of tea for 200 ml water, 75 C heat, and only 45 seconds od brewing, you will taste a huge diffrence, and secon brew pour 80 C water and instantly pour off, thir brew for 30 seconds.
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