A grandpa with sencha in a bottle, note the high leaf to water ratio.
Categories: Teas
Tagged: grandpa, green tea, Japanese tea
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5 responses so far ↓
Michael Eversberg II // June 3, 2015 at 11:15 am |
How’d it taste? Looks like it would be way, way too strong.
MarshalN // June 5, 2015 at 8:49 am |
I don’t know, it wasn’t mine
AdmiralKelvinator // June 4, 2015 at 8:29 pm |
Welcome (back) to Tokyo! First time I’ve seen sencha granpa’d that way. Looks pretty strong.
MarshalN // June 5, 2015 at 8:49 am |
It does look pretty strong, at least initially. The bottle is well worn too.
Von Monstro // June 5, 2015 at 3:56 pm |
I was thinking they had it going for a long time and kept adding more leaves.
Thought I wouldn’t discount that they just like their tea incredibly strong.. and probably bitter. Hell I used to love my tea chifir’ style. Nowadays I have the palate to sense how harsh it is, but the psychoactive effect is unique and pleasurable. Though with sencha, enjoying that sounds like a challenge.