Japanese Green Tea

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Summary: Japanese green tea is picked four times a year to create four different flavors of tea. Learn about Japanese green tea with tips from a tea lounge owner in this free tea brewing video.

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Kim Pham Kim Pham co-owns the Kaleisia Tea Lounge in Tampa. She has traveled extensively to cultivate her knowledge of tea, and she has learned the tea supply chain f... read more

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Japanese Green Tea

So, what is Japanese green tea? On this side I have Chinese green tea, on this side is the Japanese green tea, which I will focus on right now. Japanese green tea starts with a bush. It's about 3 feet high, and it's picked 4 times to 5 times most through out the year. And it starts in the early Spring, about April or so, depending again on the weather pattern. And that specific tea is called sincha, very first picking of the year. And that style type of tea, only lasts about 7 to 10 days max. After that they have another picking, and that style tea is called sencha. Most of the tea consumed in Japan is called sencha. And they also export it to over seas, is the style of sencha. Because the Japanese drink so much green tea, that they have to import from China a sencha tea. So what they do is they ask their Chinese counterpart to produce a tea that's made the way they do. And what the Japanese do, is after they pick their tea leaves, they steam the tea leaves, increasing the corafil. Therefore, when you look at a Japanese green tea, it is greener than Chinese green tea. From the sencha the leader picking is called bancha, and what they do is they take the bancha and they roast it, it's called a hojicha, which is a roasted tea. And the bancha as well they add rice kernels, and they call that genmaicha, which is made from, again the same style tea, it's just when it's picked. Therefore when you think of Japanese green tea, it's one basic style of tea that has been manipulated to create the different styles, the different flavors of Japanese green tea.