Medium Roast Autumn Hojicha

This aged roasted green tea offers a deeply comforting and warming experience. Its flavor is smooth and well-rounded, carrying delightful notes of toasted nuts and sweet caramel, perfect for relaxatio. It leans roasted, nutty and caramel.

Water around 70–80 °C (158–176 °F). In a mug, steep 2–3 min. For gongfu, use 3–5 g per 100 ml, 15–30 s steeps. You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. The biggest mistake with green tea is using boiling water. Keep it well below that and you won't get bitterness.

Grown in Shizuoka, Japan from the Yabukita cultivar. This batch is from the Autumn harvest. The leaves got a medium roast after picking.

Starts at $9.54 from Yuko Ono, or about $0.06/g. A 12g package gets you around 2 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.36 per session. Explore more green teas on Teadar.