And thus I reach the reason for my swap with Amy oh – my desire to try mugicha! Thanks for passing the huge, heavily filled teabags along!
So I followed the instructions (kind of) for this one, and brewed one teabag in 1L of water (in a Pyrex measuring cup!) I used cold Brita-filtered water, but instead of “cold-steeping”, I steeped it at room temperature, for probably an hour and a half to two hours. The teabag exploded a bit, which was annoying, but just means I have to filter the tea before I drink it.
Anyways! So the smell is earthy and a little bit fishy, almost. Kind of reminds me of pu’erh, which seems odd. The taste though… is very interestingly much like cold coffee! Not wonderful coffee, but there’s no astringency or bitterness, it’s just the roasted coffee flavour. This isn’t what I was expecting – I was expecting more like a genmaicha, as Azzrian had talked about, but this is intriguing. Will this make a good coffee substitute, flavour-wise? Iced coffee substitute??! This is exciting!! I’ll have to try it. I’m not sure this is something I’d drink plain too often (although I finished my cup last night; there are 3 more in the fridge), but it was definitely worth the experience, and I am hoping to experiment with milk and sweetener this evening and see how that goes!
Thanks again, Amy!
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I was not a huge fan myself. I wonder if adding some lemon would help? if you toss the others I won’t be offended. :)
To my mind, lemon would be strange to add! I don’t think I’ll be throwing the other bags out; I will either make fabulous caffeine-free iced “coffee” or pass them along, because this is really interesting!
I was not a huge fan myself. I wonder if adding some lemon would help? if you toss the others I won’t be offended. :)
To my mind, lemon would be strange to add! I don’t think I’ll be throwing the other bags out; I will either make fabulous caffeine-free iced “coffee” or pass them along, because this is really interesting!