Japanese Toasted Matcha Loose Green Tea

Name: Japanese Toasted Matcha
Brand: Rare Tea Company
Price: 6.49 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

£6.49

(52p per cup)

Style

25g Pouch

250g Bag

Quantity

Rich, malty, and chocolatey, this toasted green tea makes a fantastic tea latte.

It is crafted from finely ground green tea - like a normal matcha - but what makes this powdered green tea so special is that the leaf and stem has first been toasted to become a hojicha. You could also call this tea ground hojicha or hojicha powder.

The colour is nutty brown rather than green - and the resulting tea is much lower in caffeine.

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16 February 2024

Pete

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A comforting, toasty and delicious matcha

As the tasting notes suggest, this has a lovely popcorn-y aroma and taste. It's biscuity and warming and tastes great with a tiny bit of honey. Highly recommended!

Tasting Notes

Best enjoyed with hot or cold milk - this green tea is particularly lovely with oat milk.

It creates a wonderfully creamy and comforting tea - like nutty chocolate brownies with cream.

Quantity

Use 2g (2 scoops with a traditional bamboo Chashaku spoon) of matcha per 125ml of hot milk.

Temperature

For the optimum infusion use milk below 83°C (181°F). Using milk above the scalding point will affect the "foaminess" of the product.

Time

Make a fine paste with 10ml of milk. Add the remaining milk and whisk vigorously in a M or W shape until a fine foam is created.

Cost Per Cup

52p per cup based on 2g of tea per 125ml of milk and 1 infusion.

This can also be enjoyed as an iced tea, using either milk or water.

We recommend whisking to a smooth paste with a little bit of your liquid first, and then topping up with the rest. Full extraction takes about 1 hour, use 3g per litre of liquid.

Wakohen tea garden covers around 100 hectares in the Southerly tip of Kyushu island off the south-west coast of mainland Japan. It’s run by Yasuhisa Horiguchi and his family - a great innovator and lover of the soil.

The Horiguchi family do not use chemical pesticides and herbicides on their farm - a rare approach in Japan. They believe that the best soil produces the best tea, and it is best for us.

When it comes to powdered tea, the history goes back to China - where it is now largely forgotten - but still venerated as matcha in Japan.

Matcha in Japan, is being increasingly drunk as a latte. Not, we may add, with additives and flavourings. No pumpkin spice or tapioca pearls, just a lovely pure cup of Japanese tea with frothy milk.

Hojicha is ground into a fine powder that can then be whisked into a toasty matcha latte. It is also delicious as a baking ingredient in cakes and pastries.

Chashaku Matcha Scoop

Add a little ceremony to your matcha by using a genuine Japanese matcha scoop to measure your matcha into the bowl.

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