![]() I recommend, if you want to try matcha again, get it from a better vendor than costco, and take some more money in hand. Buy Aiya Matcha To Go Single Serve Packs - Ceremonial Grade Pure Matcha Green Tea Powder (10 Count) online at an affordable price. Its just the hip new food trend wich gets stamped on everything. Since theres just not enough powder in one teabag to realy taste it. They just put some cheap matchapowder in with some sencha or whatever, wich totaly overrules the actual taste of the matcha. True matcha will never taste like any blends you get in teabags. How did you done it? Taste can change dramatically with just a few degrees too hot water. ![]() Shoppe Aiya America Ceremonial Grade Matcha Green Tea Powder by Aiya America. That said, maybe you just prepaired yours wrong. Matcha Cooking Grade Tea (100 Grams Powder) by Aiya America at the Vitamin. Theres some similarities, but it is totally different processed. Matcha does not taste as normal green tea does. But even then its not given you will like the taste. Wich not means there are no good affordable ones, of course. In the case of matcha, price very often indicates quality. As for the ceremonial grade, thats mostly just a marketing thing, and doesnt necessarily stands for good quality. To drink the tea, you pour water onto it and serve it with a bamboo whisk. Matcha tea leaves grow slowly in shady plantations, then the freshly dried leaves are slowly ground in stone grinders to create a fine, jade-green powder. The production of matcha very expensive and laborius. Matcha is exquisite: just a few dozen tea farmers possess the complex knowledge to produce this tea. It didn't wow me enough to justify the price tag-$18 for 85 grams is up there among some of the better artisan teas, and this tea, while solidly good, is not a style of tea that I would ever pay this price for unless it really stood out somehow.12$ for 30g seems way too cheap to get something decent out of it. Still, this tea is pricey enough that it competes with some of the higher-priced Chinese green teas, as well as other styles of Japanese green tea that I am more partial to. There's more of a deep nutty aroma and less of the popcorn-like quality that I find in some of the cheaper examples of this type of tea. It's definitely one of the better genmaicha's that I've tried. Midori Spring: Less sweet and less grassy than Aiya America. This is a mild, easy-to-drink tea that I think would please a lot of people. Aiya America Aiya America Ceremonial Matcha Green Tea Usu-cha (100 Gram Bag) Midori Spring Organic Ceremonial Matcha - Emerald Class - Chef's Choice Quality Japanese Matcha Powder 100g Aiya America: Sweet, grassy. Flavor is smooth and overall character is mellow. Pleasingly nutty and toasty aroma, with a hint of vegetal tones. ![]() The presence of the matcha is boldly evident looking at the dry leaf, but upon brewing, this tea seemed pretty similar to other genmaicha-perhaps a tiny bit more cloudy, but similar flavor and aroma. ![]() Link to This Review 70 Aroma: 7/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 3/5Īlex Zorach ( 1438 reviews) on Dec. It's clearly a high quality base tea, but at least to me not worth the price premium given that it has a flavor profile not so different from good teas that don't have the matcha infusion. It's strongly toasty, neither especially bitter nor sweet nor tart, and just a tiny bit vegetal on the aftertaste.Īlso like the last reviewer, I'm inclined to think of it as a bit pricey relative to how much I like it. Taste-wise, I agree with the previous reviewer's assessment as mild, easy-drinking, and accessible. 100 Japanese green tea powder, certified organic, full of antioxidants and flavor. It made my whole room smell like toasted rice cakes. Organic Ceremonial Matcha Green Tea by Aiya. Once brewed, the very strong aroma of the toasted rice completely overwhelmed all other smells, though the actual liquid of the brew was greener than you'd otherwise get without the matcha. I didn't have a lot of tea to play with - I had only a small sample, and thanks to a spill I had an even smaller sample than usual - so I brewed it as close to the recommended instructions as possible - 194 F for one minute. Straight out of the bag, this tea had a strong matcha smell, very grassy in a fresh and invigorating way. Link to This Review 73 Aroma: 8/10 Flavor: 4/5 Value: 2/5
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