Brewing Genmai Cha With Matcha

Demonstration of basic green tea brewing technique using genmai cha (bancha green tea with roasted brown rice) with matcha (traditional powdered green tea) in a kyuusu.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• kyusu
• kyuusu
• genmai
• cha
• genmaicha
• green
• tea
• brew
• steep
• infusion

[pathagriez]

Personally I tend to not brew genmaicha or mugicha in my kyusu because it is unglazed and I do not want any roasted flavor transfer.

[padrebob42]

I'm with ya on that one. The kyusu I used in this video is unglazed and used for a wide range of teas. But I wouldn't taint one of my unglazed pots with strange flavors.

[92ismiley]

Heard a cat at 1:35~ Anyways, distinctive combination of cha. I'll have to give it a try someday!

[mthood1122]

Nice video! I usually have Sencha for my daily tea, but today I feel like having Genmaicha with matcha (^-^)

[SydneyTinker]

@PaintedRavensong We're only separated by a state line or two IIRC. We should be able to arrange it at some point. :)

[PaintedRavensong]

This is wonderful. I have never had any tea that has been made this way except in a Japanese restaurant and I don't even know exactly how theirs was made. Oh how I'd love to sit down with you and talk over tea...lovely!!!

[raigekimaru]

I drink matcha iri gemaicha a lot because you can get it at good quality for a low price (lower priced sencha and bancha usually taste like crap). it's also nice because you can steep it up 3 or 4 times if you do it right (I drink a distasteful amount of tea, so this helps a lot being a high school student with a minimum wage job lolz)