O-Cha's Chiran Sencha Japanese Green Tea [TeaDB Episode 10] 

I love you guys!

this is the first green tea i ever tried i love it its very healthy

Thanks for the great visual on amounts of leaf and water to use.

Thanks Adam and Cody, appreciate the support! Barbara, green tea (especially Japanese) can be very delicate. A few degrees can make quite a difference.

Nice work guys! Gonna try me some Sencha.

Good video

I've been enjoying your guys videos! Keep up the good work.

A contentious point to say the least.

Hi +Emma Loiuse Manning, Thanks for the comment. Indeed, that could be the seaweed taste. It's a taste that is definitely not for everyone. That being said, there's a pretty significant variation in the overall profile between alot of these senchas. They can also come out notoriously different depending on how you brew it. I'd recommend picking up a few different types of loose leaf sencha and experimenting! Oftentimes, it's simply a case of getting the right stuff for you. Cheers! -James

the guy on the right is so serious.... DON'T FUCK WITH JAPANESE TEA.

Hi, I recently bought some Japanese Seneca loose tea leaves as I have been drinking and enjoying some teabags of green tea for a few weeks now. The tea from my teabags had an earthy taste which I find rather enjoyable and I assumed the tea from the leaves would be the same or similar, however when I made a cup of tea with them (using an infuser instead of a pot) it tasted nice and fresh but I kept getting a taste like seaweed. I just wanted to ask if this is the grassy taste you were talking about and what would be a good way of easing my taste buds around to this new flavour as it is very strange. Many thanks, Emma

Hello. I'm new to green teas and developed an interests after trying South Korean green tea candy called Mammos Friend. I love the flavor of the candy so I purchased another South Korean product by Sempio which is a brown rice green tea. It's not a bad tea, but it's not what I'm after and certainly doesn't taste great like the flavor of the candy. It kind of smells and taste like popcorn. The tea didn't have a green appearance, so much as it had more of a brownish yellow appearance. I would love more of a green to darker green appearance and something that taste like the candy I tried. Perhaps I should give Sencha and Matcha a try.

I've gotta admit that I snickered at 11:18. Great video guys :)

very cool video guys! really enjoyed it one thing thought, I was told that for health reasons the following steeping should have higher temp but shorter steeping times. keep it up!!

IMHO The best ratio for sencha is 1g for 30 ml and for Gyokuro 2-2.5g for 30ml. Use lower temperature(60-65°C) and longer steeping time(1-2 min.) for Asamushi Sencha and higher temperature(75-80°C) and shorter steeping time(30-50s.) for Fukamushi Sencha. Gyokuro brews best at around 2 minutes and 40-60°C temperature.

Hi hackum, Thanks for the comment. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's pretty normal for Japanese teapots to have a strainer! Cheers, -James

Can you publish a guide to water temperatures and steeping times? It seems like every tea is different.

From what I’ve read and my own experiments I’d say the best way to brew it is first steep: 1 minute at 160°F second steep: 10-30 seconds at 176°F and third steep: 1 minute and 15 seconds at 165° to 170°F. I don’t brew Sencha for more than 3 steeps.

Why don't you just pour in the tea cup?

.Hi, what is the situation with the radioactivity ? The shop is in Iwaki , you have no fear ? I have in mind also tee of O - Cha and now something . Best regards

Why does your teapot have a strainer? I thought sencha was traditionally brewed without one so that the leaves can open as much as possible?

Hi, I just bought this tea and brewed it twice. For the first time, I did according to O-CHA's instructions, i.e. one teaspoon for 220-300 ml kyusu, at 175 degrees. The tea aroma is strong but the taste is quite dull, like plain water with tea added. The second time I brewed at the temperature you recommend, 160 degrees, and I added two teaspoons. This time it was better, however still the taste isn't as strong as I thought it would be. Am I doing something wrong or is it the taste that is simply so delicate?

I need help finding a reasonably priced kyusu

James, didn't know there were different ways of brewing tea. I guess I was doing it wrong all these years - no wonder it tasted bitter.

lol i thought you were wearing kimono

Great video,but I'm not familiar with american units,so it didn't help me much in terms of temperature :D. But I think we can all agree on the fact, that tea's awesome :D

to bad the ongoing radiation disaster will eventually render most if not all Japanese products nonviable..