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When steeped correctly, a high-quality green tea is not bitter but has beautiful vegetal, citrus, and umami notes, making a delicious cup!
Here’s how to make green tea correctly!
So, what should you do to ensure your green tea blends taste wonderful and not bitter? The key lies in using quality tea leaves and how long you take to steep green tea.
It’s extremely important to drink high-quality whole-leaf teas directly sourced from tea farmers. Find tea shops and online vendors that focus on directly sourcing and are transparent in their practices. Green tea loses its freshness 6-8 months after it’s made, so direct sourcing ensures it is fresh and delicious. You also want to ensure the tea is whole leaf and not broken leaf. As the surface area increases, polyphenol molecules are uncontrolled into the water in broken-leaf teas, creating bitterness and poor flavor.
Important tips while steeping green tea include using a lower water temperature of around 175°F-185°F (80-85 C) with sometimes even lower brewing temperatures, typically ranging from 140°F to 160°F (60-70 C) for certain types of delicate or specialty green tea. Our Nilgiri green tea, a high mountain green tea, is brewed at a higher temperature, around 185°F.
Another thing to remember is steeping time; shorter green tea steeping times of 1-2 minutes are helpful.
A standard green tea steeping time is as below:
I believe you should focus on leaf-water ratio and a modified western technique of 2.5 g in 5-6 fl-oz of water for short steeping times of 30 seconds - 1 minute with multiple infusions and adjustments of steeping times based on how the tea leaves unravel is a good idea. The green tea blend has its own life and dynamic, with each infusion's flavor profile and nuances.
this ancient style of steeping green tea is wonderful. With a leaf water ratio of 1g for every 5-10 seconds, infusions that are then prolonged give a dynamic cup per serving.
Tea leaves are placed in a glass, and water is poured. You can drink straight from the glass without straining the wet leaves. When the water levels reduce, fresh water can be added.
If you use high-quality green tea and steep it correctly, green tea will not taste bitter but quite lovely, with a natural sweetness and lovely vegetal and umami notes. The bitterness and astringency observed in green tea are from the polyphenols, the same molecules that are excellent antioxidants, making green tea a health beverage of choice.
If you steep green tea for too long or at too high a water temperature, you will release more polyphenols into the tea liquor, responsible for an extremely bitter and astringent cup. But by learning the art of steeping tea mentioned above, you can regulate the release of polyphenols and enjoy the health benefits of green tea and a flavorful, delicious, calming, and extremely joyful cup. That’s how you make green tea taste good! When steeped correctly green tea has wonderful umami, herbaceous, vegetal, ocean like seaweed, and sometimes even citrus and floral notes.
Green tea is rich in catechin polyphenols that are excellent for health. They are powerful antioxidants that can negate free radicals and prevent damage to the cells in our body. Green tea has many health benefits, including cardiovascular health, reducing the risk of coronary artery disease, neurological health with some preventive benefits against Alzheimer’s disease, and skin and hair health. Green tea is also a good prebiotic and excellent for gut and digestive health, with benefits that include reducing glucose and lipid absorption from the gut and into the bloodstream. Our Green tea is good for health and rich in the wonderful molecule L-theanine, which relieves acute stress and reduces anxiety. L-theanine and the caffeine in green tea help create a sense of focused calm.
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This single-origin high-altitude green tea is made only in spring and has delicious vegetal, citrus, nutty, and umami notes. With a rich mouthfeel and minimal astringency, it is a favorite of many.
This single-origin tea is made especially in the winter and has a lovely freshness with notes of fresh spinach, grass, and citrus-like grapefruit. Anyone who tries it loves it.
We have delicious green tea blends with herbs, spices, and flowers. Our brand is unique because we don’t use artificial or natural flavoring. This ensures the blend has natural, authentic flavors and enhanced health benefits.
I recommend trying our single origin whole leaf green teas like our Nilgiri Green Twirl and Emerald Green Tea. If you enjoy blends our Kashmiri Kahwa, Turmeric Green Tea, Lavish Blue Tea, and Floral Fusion Green Chai are a must try.
Now that we have busted the myths of green tea being bitter and you know the secrets to making a wonderful, delicious cup of green tea, I hope you can enjoy a cup of green tea and also be able to reap its health benefits.
To conclude, I would like to say - always remember to drink good tea!
