What type of green tea is this? I purchased a pouch of something that looked exactly like this from stash labled "Premium Loose Green Tea" I see no such item on their website, and there was no hint on the package as to what TYPE of premium green tea it was. Any ideas would be appreciated as I really enjoyed the tea but would like to possibly purchase the same tea from another manufacturer.
-S.
looks like a japanese green, most likely sencha, but at that angle it could be anything! Does this picture look like it?
Most likely it was Sencha, that picture really doesn't tell much. Describe the tea you had, color of the liquor, taste, etc. and I should be able to direct you to a similar green tea. Sencha tends to look like verdant green blades of grass, and the brew is generally bright green to a duller green, almost brown. The taste is a "fresh" taste with grassy notes or even sometimes described as "fishy." If this is close, then it was most likely Sencha.
Sencha is the main green tea in Japan and one of my favorites, but I see many teas labled as Sencha that are most certainly not. So it can be tough to figure out, but if you can give me a little bit to go on, we'll see what we can come up with.
- Dominic Drinking: Organic Strawberry Green Tea
That is exactly it, I bought some sencha today and tried it. Very good stuff! :) Thanks for your help. I don't know why I bought gunpowder tea, I just thought the idea was nifty I guess. It's not nearly as tasty though.
-S.
I prefer Sencha as well to almost all other green teas. I have tried almost all of them and no matter what I come back to a good quality sencha every time. I buy three main ones: For teabag form, I go with Shirakiku Brand sen-cha (Like $2 at local asian mart and good), and loose I currently am stuck on an organic strawberry sencha (I think it may be Numi brand) that is just sencha tea with dehydrated bits of strawberry mixed in, or I go for just a solid quality plain sencha. (I look for freshness, smell, and leaf quality) Pretty soon you will narrow down which sencha's you like and those you don't. There is a vide variety all under the name "sencha."
- Dominic Drinking: Spring white mixed with Dimbula ceylon
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