Go Georgia, go Georgia, you can do it! LOL.
I found this one in my focus box and felt a cozy genmaicha was just the ticket at this highly stressful hour. Normally I would probably steep this at 175 for maybe 2 minutes, but I figured I would try the very different parameters prescribed by the label. For science!
Soybean, especially roasted soybean flour (or kinako) is a very popular flavor in Japan, especially for confections. I had a mighty tasty kinako-flavored soft serve there that I loved, and kinako-dusted mochi is a very traditional sweet as well. But man, don’t even get me started on their soft serve flavors… ❤
Anyway! This is yummy. The toasted rice is the strongest note here, as is usual for genmaicha, but I do feel like I can taste the soybean as well (although really the flavors are very similar). The matcha adds a nice sweet grassy note and a little pop of roasted-seaweed-like umami, though it also somewhat obscures the flavor of the sencha.
Very tasty, and definitely hitting the spot for a comforting tea right now… :D
Flavors: Grain, Grass, Seaweed, Sweet, Toasted, Toasted Rice
Eh, soybean. Not an ingredient I associate with tea. But they tried, I guess.
It was recommended that I try it with rock sugar. Seemed to help a little!
Yeah, soybean + tea is not a normal combo.
Indigobloom – perhaps I’ll give that a shot if I remember :)
good luck heh