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Can be hot or cold brewed. Tastes very floral. Like orhcids.

Adjusting up. I enjoy this tea with salty/greasy heavy foods. I don’t know why.
I have found that brewing for: pre steep 10 seconds, 1 min 1st brew, then 30 second brew, and 1 min 3rd brew works rather well. Very much sweet water after that, but still enjoyable. Had some of the last bits of fuka, what a striking difference between the two flavors. I think I prefer Fuka but this kab is slowly growing on me. And plus it’s nice to switch flavors every so often so you dont get bored. increasing rating.

:/ is right. Not very good, very low quality. I used it at some point in baking and the flavor came through nicely.
This is closer to cooking grade matcha or latte matcha. Has a strong bitter fishy taste.
reducing my rating #.

Still getting bitter-cucumber flavor, but now the first brew smells a shade bit like jasmine flowers.
It too a few pots of this tea to get used to it. I drank it to day after a chawan of Kiri no mori and noticed they tasted very similar, yet different. the sweet after taste of Kiri added some nice sweet complexity to the Kabusecha. Delicious.

First infusion: 1 min- strong cucumber flavor, slightly on the bitter side. After drinking so much Fula this one just tastes funny. :(
Second infusion: ~30 seconds. Tastes like yummy grassy cucumber. Like cucumber peels. Alot less bitter and tad bit sweeter. Has more of a tea flavor now.
3rd infusion: btw- getting slight matcha sensation in back of throat (but not as sweet and more green) . Same, but less cucumber an more if a perfumey flavor.
Softer flavor. 45 sec.
4th 1 min infusion. Same.

This one tastes different. Don’t know if I like it yet.

Opened one of the packages, took some whiffs, and it is identical to the mystery oolong that I have been drinking for almost a year.
This one has a slightly greener smell to it.
I will update the rating later once i brew it.
I ended up with approx. 4 oz or 1/2 cup dry volume of tea.
I have about 1 cup and 1/4 of mystery oolong left as well. So I probably started with like… 3-5 dry cups of tea leaves when I first got my canister. :( I drink too much tea.

2013 shincha.
It tastes to me: Grassy, vegetal (zuchinni/cucumber), Floral (perfume), sweet, Marine (my friend said it tasted a bit like seaweed, it just tastes marine to me), and a slight kick of umami at the back that makes for a very sweet after taste.
the first infusion tastes like sour fish.

I don’t know how much i used, i just dumped the last bits from the sample bag into a pot with some Oolong (that had been steeped maybe 5 times? i kind of lost track). The resulting liquid was dark, like puerh DARK. I added lots of milk and sugar and wow it’s knock your socks off good. I def. like the subtle flavor that the oolong added. P: Wish i had more of this chai :(

Very nice black tea base, and the spices are flavorful. Very good little sample size, I may try it double strength next time. It’s milder than tazo but still has lotsa flavor.

Pretty good.
It has a nutty, sweet, green, rice cake/rice crispy flavor.
I drank this mostly while i wasn’t feeling well. It really does make you feel like you’ve eaten something. Which made me feel better when I couldn’t handle much :(
I discovered that (after I got better of course) it’s pretty dang good with milk and sugar in it. P: but i like it both ways.