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“Adventaggedon Day Three – 5/5 More green tea… but with soba! I actually just got a giant bag of Soba from Harney & Sons during their Black Friday sale because I enjoy it so much, so I was...” Read full tasting note
Roasted buckwheat, also called sobacha or memil-cha, is often served as an herbal tea in Japan and Korea. Once blended with a green spring tea, the result is a freshly delicate infusion with roasted cereal notes. This herbaceous tea is surprisingly not at all bitter and is sure to please Japanese Genmaicha enthusiasts
Ingredients: Korean green tea, roasted buckwheat
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Adventaggedon Day Three – 5/5
More green tea… but with soba!
I actually just got a giant bag of Soba from Harney & Sons during their Black Friday sale because I enjoy it so much, so I was interested to see how the taste would suit this Korean green tea. I mean, basically today’s selection is just Korean Genmaicha.
Normally I steep my Genmaicha at a boil for about a minute because that pulls out more toasty rice notes and less of the green tea, but because this was my first tasting of this tea I dropped the water temperature down to about 85C and gave it a little bit of a longer steep time. It’s still plenty roasty toasty with a lot of pleasant and slight caramelized nut and grain notes. Snap impression is that I’m actually enjoying it more than the standard Genmaicha. That’s probably because there’s just a lovely absence of those marine tasting notes that turn me off Japanese green tea so much.
So, this one is a winner in my books!
Today’s Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CluMZkouA7b/
Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-fppK8vew
