As promised, more Iyemon tea! This time in the form of genmaicha. I’ve seen genmaicha referred to as popcorny, and this stuff is indeed quite popcorny, both in the taste and in the aftertaste. It’s also slightly sweet, at least initially, which I found interesting, although the sweetness went away as it warmed up. Eventually the sweetness fades to a bitter finish that, combined with the popcorn taste makes for a rather odd aftertaste that I can’t really say I’m overly fond of.
The taste of the underlying tea is kind of similar to the oolong I had earlier this week. Kind of woodsy, skirting along the edges of bitterness/smokiness without never quite making it over the threshold. There is, however, no traces of the matcha that was supposedly iri’d at some point in the creation of this tea. This is not one of my favorites.
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You’re really in tea-topia over there! Loving all these notes!
I feel kind of bad for all the trash I’m generating, but Japan has recycling down pretty well and I have so far been able to avoid using disposable chopsticks so that’s always something.
What makes it Iyemon tea? I picked up this tea at my local Japanese store since I love trying to genmaichas. I googled and found nothing what Iyemon or iemon means, would love to be enlightened on the word.
As far as I know, it’s just the name of a subgroup of teas within the brand. Looks like Iyemon was the name of the founder of the company.
thank you!
You’re really in tea-topia over there! Loving all these notes!
I feel kind of bad for all the trash I’m generating, but Japan has recycling down pretty well and I have so far been able to avoid using disposable chopsticks so that’s always something.
What makes it Iyemon tea? I picked up this tea at my local Japanese store since I love trying to genmaichas. I googled and found nothing what Iyemon or iemon means, would love to be enlightened on the word.
As far as I know, it’s just the name of a subgroup of teas within the brand. Looks like Iyemon was the name of the founder of the company.
thank you!