Korean Sejak

Today’s cup was a lot more smokey today and less nutty! Interesting c: Ahhh, this stuff is great…Side-note, I cannot stress enough to really only steep it for 2 minutes max and at a very low temperature. This tea isn’t hard to make, but srsly, pay attention! Or else your tea can easily be ruined D: This is one of those teas where it only shines in that one special gap where timing and temperature is accurate to the instructions. Now that I’ve given my advice I shall commence with teh sipping ^^

light earthy green flavour, not sweet at all, almost a teeny bit salty tasting? very fresh, tasty green tea

The fam jam and I just finished a really fun game of Dread.

For anyone who’s never heard of it or played it before it’s a horror style RPing game that relies on pulls from a Jenga tower instead of dice rolls to accomplish tasks. It’s interesting because it can be cooperative (the players against the DM) but ultimately the game ends when everyone but one person has died. You die when you knock the tower over. It gets increasingly more intense as the game progresses because the risk of knocking the tower over increases.

This was the tea I drank while DMing; I’m not a green tea person but I was surprisingly really craving one today. I don’t know if I’ve actually ever had a green tea from Korea before though? It was interesting to me though because I thought the flavour had aspects I’d typically associate with Chinese greens (a smoky note) and a flavour I’d also associate strongly with Japanese greens, like the strong marine/seaweed notes. Quite strange, and enjoyable! Other than having a mix of both flavour notes which was nice, I thought that this was a little too astringent though and for me that really detracted from the experience.

But positive overall.

Reminds me of Camellia Sinensis’ Tan Huong but a bit weaker. Not bad but won’t be buying more.

Brewed for 2:10 in my Breville One Touch Kettle ‘s green tea setting (can’t remember the actual temperature for the life of me).

This tea is interesting. It’s not quite what I’m looking for when I just want a cup of green tea though. I prefer a flavoured green or genmaicha (love it’s toasty taste). I’m really curious to brew this gong fu style. I find it a bit overwhelming with its vegetal, buttery and astringent notes. I love to see how this does with multiple short steepings.

From the matcha TTB.

This tea is really nice! It has a little sweetness to it, slightly grassy on the end of the sip, but without the tang. It is pretty smooth! I don’t know if this is a run out and grab it type tea, but it is enjoyable.

Matcha/Green TTB #7

This tea smelled funny to me so I decided to try it.
The leaf does a halfway dance as it brews which is ‘eh’
I really enjoy the semi sweet taste that comes through this tea; it is very similar to a natural fruit sweetness.
My problem with this tea is that I was unable to drink past 6 ounces of this. As the level of enjoyment decreased it just wasn’t very appealing.

I remember having a small 5g sample of this when I was first getting into green tea about 2 years ago. I remember liking it, and seeing as how this is DAVID’s cheapest green tea (besides genmaicha) I thought I would give it a shot.

On my first sip I honestly thought I was drinking hot water. Once the water cooled down a bit I could taste a slight grassy/seaweedy taste, but it was barely there. The thing is, I don’t think I underleafed or under steeped it; I actually used 1.25tsp for my timolino (the package says 3/4tsp per 240ml) and I’m not 100% sure how many minutes it steeped, but at least the minimum 2-3 min) . I’ll try making this tea again with more leaves to see if that strengthens it up but otherwise I won’t be repurchasing. It’s not a bad tasting tea, it’s just that there’s barely any taste to it!

UPDATE: later on in the day I brewed the tea with at least 2tsp per timolino, and it did taste somewhat better, but still seaweedy and nothing special. I shouldn’t have to add that much green tea to my timolino for it to taste as good as a generic green tea bag.

good green tea

A dark green tea with leaves of varying size. This one immediately smelled soothing to me—there’s just that quality to some green and green oolong teas that is calming and nostalgic. The tea liquor brews up to a light green color, and has a smooth mouthfeel and a gentle nori seaweed taste. After longer steeping, there’s a salty quality to it as well, and a lingering, almost fragrant note unique to green teas. I’m not a big fan of the salt, but it doesn’t detract much from the overall experience. In general, I do like the seaweed-esque green teas more than the ones that have strong vegetal (or rather vegetable) notes—those ones seem to go straight to my head, while a tea like this produces a nourishing, refreshing effect.