Korean Sejak

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea
Flavors
Seaweed, Grass
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
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Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by sherapop
Average preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 15 sec 8 g 17 oz / 514 ml

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  • “I’m pretty much over this tea. Too bad I have 1-2 cups left of it in my tin. :( I’ll probably focus on finishing it up, and then I’ll have to decide what green tea to fill it back up with (fill as...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Picked up a little $1 bag when I was pursuing the giant Perfect Mugs (on my Kissmas list ;) ). I found the flavour to be very mild, almost too mild for me. I didn’t find it bitter, but it was a bit...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Split a pot of this with my roommate tonight. If someone had told me that I was drinking steeped seaweed, I would 100% believe them – this tea tastes salty, a bit sweet and umami, and very marine....” Read full tasting note
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  • “I decided to grab a pack of this when Davids was having their $1 straight tea special. I figured it was a good opportunity to try something that I wouldn’t normally buy from Davids. I steeped it...” Read full tasting note
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Tea devotees rejoice!

Korean tea is exceptionally rare and difficult to find, and this one is worth the trouble. Grown in a monastic style garden in the Jiri Mountain slopes of Korea, this tea is lovingly tended by those who enter into a monk lifestyle to devote their lives to tea. The result is a tea that is unusually complex and pleasantly earthy. Count your blessings – each sip is divine salvation.

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DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

63 Tasting Notes

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1233 tasting notes

Korean tea. Of course the Koreans drink tea. I don’t know why I felt surprised at first. Maybe I just thought they drank a lot of Japanese and Chinese but didn’t have their own? Anyway, this kinda reminds me of a sencha. Greenish-yellowish water color. Grassy and slightly…very slight fruity aroma. Very clean and light flavor. Grassy of course, with a bit of a marine like hint.

Honestly, if you don’t like straight green tea you won’t like this but if you do I think you will enjoy it.

Flavors: Grass, Seaweed

Preparation
2 min, 30 sec 1 tsp

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This is drinkable, just an average green tea. A little floral, mild. It’s the second Korean green I’ve had.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 1 min, 45 sec

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This is another tea than came as part of my sampler – I’ve occasionally given it curious glances when I shop in Davids Tea stores, but I always end up getting distracted by the flavoured blends instead. I wasn’t aware that Korea had much a of a tea industry, and I did a cursory Google search but couldn’t find much. Out of curiosity, does anybody know anything about it?

This tea reminds me of some Japanese senchas that I’ve tried – umami in flavour but without the grassy undertones. The leaves look like a sencha too, that sort of dark green almost shiny look to them – I wonder if it’s a similar variety or they’re grown in a similar way? I found it to be quite a mild, pleasant tea.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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987 tasting notes

I’m back after an exciting (but tea-less) weekend of convention-going, and it’s good to be back home. I settled on trying this tea since I had a small sample size of it.

Hoo boy. I really wanted to like this. I had been informed by other reviews here to expect a taste that was briny, vegetal, and mineral, but I still didn’t like this. It tastes stale. And that sucks because I’m barely half a cup into this stuff, and I’ve brewed a full pot of it. I really don’t want to drink the rest. I’m even seriously considering putting the rest of the sample into the compost, as I just don’t want to drink this. Bah!

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 3 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 24 OZ / 709 ML

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123 tasting notes

Sipdown! I used more leaf than last time (probably a bit more than 1 1/4 tsp) in about the same amount of water. I’m smelling & tasting a rather strong genmaicha-esque toasty rice (which I’m enjoying) with a very noticeable metallic tang (which I don’t like so much), neither of which I can recall when I tried this before. Now that this tea is back in stock, I’ll consider picking up a bit more to play around with when I’m in North America next.

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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I’m not usually a plain green tea drinker, but I had one of those $1 sample packs of this to try so I figured why not? This was my first try of a Korean green tea, and I have to say… I rather enjoyed the flavour. Not quite what I was suspecting, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless. When I want to purchase a straight green in the future at DT… I know which one I’m going for.

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I made this tea for a cold beverage to have the next day.
It is bitter without an added sweetener so I added some honey and I do agree that the steep time should be less than 3min.
I do prefer the taste of it cold rather than hot.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 2 min, 15 sec

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5 tasting notes

Korean Sejak is different in many ways, and difficult to get the taste you want. I’ve been working on it for years. And I finally got the taste that I like.

This is recommended for everyone. Whether you’re a straight green tea lover, a starter with straight teas or a masters in the art of tea, it’s a must have. You don’t drink it for the mildness of the tea. The point of Korean Sejak is to drink it for the cleanness of it. If the water is too cold, it gets too vegetal. If the water is too hot, then it gets too dry and you don’t taste the cleanness at all.

With careful experiments, you can get the best tea out of this. Using large tea pots (for steeping space) and washing the tea (waking it up with a small splash of hot water) first makes a huge difference.

I experimented around 80 degrees Celsius. With not much steeping time. When it’s perfected and acquired the art of Korean Sejak, then it’s worth it. Give it a try! This specific tea is what got me into tea steeping!

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 1 min, 30 sec

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14 tasting notes

I picked this tea up a few weeks ago out of curiosity. I have never tried any Korean teas and thought this might be a worthwhile adventure.

The first time I tried it I wasn’t a huge fan (I steeped it at too high of a temperature), but I tried it again at a lower temperature and it turned out pretty well. This tea is definitely different from most greens.

The tea is generally light. When you sip it you get a nice smooth vegetal taste followed by a slight bitterness that gives the tea some boldness. It has a nice saltiness to it as well, which goes well with any seafood.

Overall great tea. A little bit different and very delicate, but if you’re into try something new I would recommend it.

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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68 tasting notes

It’s an interesting sort of fusion like tea. I say interesting because it seems to be somewhere in the middle between Japanese seaweediness and Chinese mellowness and nuttiness. The dry leaves smell pleasant, almost smokey. Steeped it does have a bit of sea smell but if you’re careful with steeping and don’t overdo it, it tastes good. Oversteeping can bring nasty bitterness. Wouldn’t be #1 choice for green tea and I probably won’t buy it again but it’s an interesting tea indeed.

Preparation
195 °F / 90 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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