Tea type
Food Green Blend
Ingredients
Green Tea, Popped Rice
Flavors
Autumn Leaf Pile, Burnt Sugar, Char, Charcoal, Dry Leaves, Nori, Roasted, Roasted Barley, Toasted, Wood, Butter, Mineral, Rice, Rich, Smooth, Toasted Rice, Woody
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Caffeine
Low
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Not available
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Average preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 2 min, 15 sec 5 g 11 oz / 337 ml

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  • “Sipdown! (28 | 302) Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (October) – “A nutty tea” Can’t get any nuttier than a hojicha with genmai added! Although, honestly, I don’t taste much of the rice here? ...” Read full tasting note
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From Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

A delicious blend of roasted green tea and roasted Mochi brown rice. This tea combines the nice raosted flavour and sweetness of our Basic Hojicha and the nutty round taste of our roasted Genmai that reminds of Soba-cha (buckwheat tea). A soothing cup without any bitterness and a very low caffeine content.

Taste: Sweet
Body: Light
Texture: Rounded
Length: Medium
Harvest: June
Tea Cultivar: Mixed
Origin: Wazuka
Cultivation: Unshaded
Processing: Steamed, Rolled, Dried, Roasted + mix with roasted rice

About Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms View company

It started with a single cup of tea. As the legend goes, our president Akihiro Kita, or Akky-san, visited Wazuka, Kyoto one fateful day. At the time, Akky-san was still a college student in search for life's calling. After trying the region's famous Ujicha (literally meaning tea from the Uji district), he immediately fell in love and his passion for green tea was born. He had finally found what he was looking for in that one simple cup of tea. After fifteen years of learning to master the art of growing tea from tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms was born and as they say, the rest is history. So what's an Obubu? Obubu is the Kyoto slang for tea. Here in the international department we call ourselves Obubu Tea. That's "Tea Tea" for the bilinguals. We love tea so much, we just had to have it twice in our name. Now Obubu means more than just tea to us. It means, family, friends, passion and the place we call home. More than just tea. Though the roots of Obubu stem from tea, it has become more than that over the years. Obubu is an agricultural social venture, operating with three (1) bring quality Japanese tea to the world (2) contribute to the local and global community through tea (3) revitalize interest in tea and agriculture through education.

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Mastress Alita’s Sipdown Challenge (October) – “A nutty tea”

Can’t get any nuttier than a hojicha with genmai added!

Although, honestly, I don’t taste much of the rice here? The hojicha is lovely, smooth and toasty with notes of dry autumn leaves, roasted nuts, and dark caramelized sugar. Maybe the stronger roasty flavor is just overpowering the subtler genmai? I do get a hint of it at the end of the sip.

It’s good, and very cozy for fall, but I don’t personally see any reason to choose this tea over one of Obubu’s several hojicha options.

Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Burnt Sugar, Char, Charcoal, Dry Leaves, Nori, Roasted, Roasted Barley, Toasted, Wood

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 1 min, 0 sec 5 g 7 OZ / 200 ML
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Martin Bednář
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That sounds so good. I will look for it in my list of venodrs :)

Martin Bednář
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Yay, found one on Yunomi (and ordered — my wallet is crying again).

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tbh I don’t have much in the way of a substantive review of this sipdown of a sample that came my way courtesy of Cameron B.. I had enough for two cups. I remember enjoying the first and thinking that the roastiness of the hojicha combined well with the nuttiness of the rice. But then we spent the night in the hospital because it turns out my SO has a kidney stone and everything is kind of a blur. I made the second cup when we got home so I could finish it off but I wasn’t really in any kind of shape to be thoughtful about it – I just wanted the sipdown, something that wouldn’t keep me awake, and something that I knew I would enjoy.
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Cameron B.
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Well I’m glad you enjoyed it and I hope it brought you some comfort. ❤

Kaylee
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thanks :)

Cameron B.
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And I hope your SO is feeling better!

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