Japanese Hojicha

Freshly picked Bancha green tea leaves are steamed, dried and slowly roasted over low heat to retain their sweet taste and wonderful aroma. Refreshing and delicious any time of the day.

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Quantity	Water	Brew	Serve

1 tspn per cup	80°c	2-3 min	As is

Character

Pale yellow with rich nutty character and cinnamon toast notes

Story

Hojicha is a relatively new style of green tea, it was first produced in the 1920's in Kyoto, Japan when local tea merchants where left with a surplus of lesser quality green tea leaves from the end of the picking season they were unable to sell so instead decided to try gently roasting the leaves over charcoal to make the tea more desirable. The intense aroma that came from this new variety was so tantalising that the tea became highly sought after and higher quality leaves began to be used to produproduce an even better quality product.

Brew

1 tsp per cup in water at 80°c for 2-3 mins

Serve

Just as it is.

Ingredients

Green tea

Origin

Japan

Customer Reviews

Jasper West	25/11/2019
This is a great Japanese green tea with a great nutty flavour and very soothing. It's a nice alternative to gunpowder style teas or genmaicha.

Ben Fisher	08/08/2019
Lovely tea. Quite subtle, but very drinkable

Amy Upton	16/03/2019
I like hojicha tea very much the toasted flavour is very relaxing.

Sarah Collins	20/10/2018
The first time I had hojicha tea was in a Japanese tea garden and I loved it. It had a delicious nutty taste that wasn't overwhelming. I bought your Hojicha hoping to recreate that experience and I suppose it's possible your Hojicha is identical to the one I had but it just never lives up to the first time I had it. The nutty smell seems a little over the top and the flavour is too strong. For other maybe start with a sample first before committing to more to make sure you like it.

Ren	04/11/2017
I'm not sure how I ever lived without this tea in my life. The first time I tried it I wasn't impressed but over time it grew on me and now I can't live without it. It's like genmaicha in that it needs time for the flavours to develop and make sense to you.