Chinese and Japanese Green teas in the same teapot?
Hi!, it’s been a while since I discovered this site, but it’s my firts post here :)
I’ve past this last years enjoying chinese teas, and now I want to expand my horizons with japanese green teas (I’m not very used to brew them). So, a few days ago a friend gave me Tamaryokucha, and now I only have a yixing teapot for my chinese greens. My question is: Can I brew Tamaryokucha in that teapot while I buy a japanese teapot? Will it change the flavour?
I don’t think you will have a problem brewing both Chinese and Japanese greens in the same pot. I have heard that Yixing is not great for greens though, I forget the reason.
I’ve never heard of using a Yixing pot for green tea either. Green tea has a delicate flavor which the Yiixing could impair and for that reason, you’ll want to use a glass or ceramic vessel.
Another thing to keep in mind is the broken up leaves of Japanese green tea means you’ll need a fine mesh strainer.
Thank you! I’ll use gaiwan :) and about green tea and yixing, I have a yixing for oolongs, and an store owner recomended me a yixing for geens too (and I trusted him)… maybe he only wanted to sell.
The truth is that I’ve never searched on the internet if yixing is good for geen or not.
Thank you again!
If you had the right yixing for shape and pour, you could do greens. Though both points are tricky as you want tall and super fast pour or you will get bitter swamp water. So hopefully you have the right pot to start.
However, I figure you want to really narrow the greens to similar flavor, last you want is salty marine japanese leaking into your floral chinese green for example. Same time, both are delicate so you may or may not get much out of doing clay and just save it for a tea that would work better.
Overall, you get more out of using a gaiwan/small ceramic glass tea pot and less fuss.
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