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Japan produces an almost innumerable number of green teas, but I would simply like to briefly discuss just three of the most popular varieties of Japanese Green Tea, and how to best brew them. Sencha is more or less the standard Japanese green tea. [...Read More] Genmaicha is another of the more popular varieties of Japanese Green Tea. More or less, Genmaicha is typically a type of Sencha with an added addition of puffed brown rice. The addition of rice in Genmaicha predictably gives this peculiar green tea an extremely smooth and earthy quality. [...Read More] Of the three most popular varieties of Japanese Green Tea, Gyokuro is by far the most delicate of all. Traditionally grown under shade, the tea leaves that make up Gyokuro are noticeably very green in color. The taste of a traditional Gyokuro tea can most often be described as being a very vegetal and extremely [...] Green tea has been used as a health remedy for what seems like forever, at least since the first recorded use by the Ancient Chinese civilizations some 4,000 years ago. Originally, the Chinese would infuse their green tea leaves and give them away as health remedies to their people in hopes of curing anything from [...] For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wondered what exactly it took to get each and every tea leaf from the tea fields half a world away, to my cup. I’ve always wondered about different types of tea, where they came from, and what it really took to turn that tiny little seed [...] We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in your cubicle diligently working, when out of the corner of your eye you spot your worst nightmare approaching. Horror of horrors - it’s the guy in your office with terrible breath! He leans in super close to deliver this most tortuous of assaults: the unending string of sentences [...] |
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