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Midweek Milky Matcha - O-Cha Organic Matcha Revisited




So I decided to revisit O-Cha's Uji Organic Matcha, last time I said I would try it again with a different chawan, unfortunately I forgot to and I don't have enough matcha leftover to try again, although I did manage to whisk a little foam this time. Regardless this time I decided to try again, but using milk instead. I think i prefer brewing it with water rather then milk, this time it has a nice sweet grassy taste, but that's it. This matcha is better brewed with water then milk.
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Midweek Matcha - O-Cha's Uji Organic Matcha



Today I tried  Uji OrganicMatcha from O-Cha. I did not expect much from this matcha because O-Cha sells two powdered senchas for roughly the same price, so I was surprised by how good it was. It’s a tiny bit bitter and less complex then higher quality matchas, but this is probably the best matcha I had at this price point. When brewed it makes a lovely deep green, I was surprised at how dark it became, but at the same time I was disappointed I couldn’t get it to foam that much. Next time I’ll have to make it with a different chawan.
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Midweek Matcha! - Hankook Tea's Powdered Green Tea



Today I tried the last of my Powdered Green Tea from Hankook Tea. Once again I used milk in place of water, although it tastes surprisingly good when brewed with water. I received this tea free when Hankook Tea ran a promotion over the summer, I kinda regret not buying their Malcha (Korean version of Matcha) because of how good this is, and this is only a culinary grade tea! Regardless unlike many powdered green teas this did not clump as much. After whisking this tea is very refreshing, not too sweet, not too grassy. I'll definitely purchase this again.
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Midweek Matcha! - Teavivre’s Organic Green tea Powder




So I decided to continue Midweek Matcha, even though I have yet to sample a proper Matcha for this blog, with Teavivre’s Organic Green Tea Powder. When brewed with water, this green tea powder has rather nice seaweed taste, while not as complex as a Japanese Matcha it compares quite well to a similarly priced powdered Japanese Sencha. But where this powdered tea really shines is when it is prepared with milk, it becomes more sweet then bitter and has a nice rich grassy taste. I was surprised by the richness of it. Overall a very good powdered green tea. I’ve reordered this three times already and it is my everyday powdered green tea. The price is pretty good for the quality, if this was a Japanese powdered Sencha I think it would be selling for about twice the current price. 
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Midweek Milky Matcha - Beautiful Taiwan Tea Matcha Powdered Green Tea from NanTou




I was lucky enough to be one of the few who purchased Beautiful Taiwan Tea’s r/Tea exclusive super deal, where I paid $15 for:

1)      A 2 oz. bag of Twisted Green Tea from Sanxia.
2)      A 2 oz. bag of Misty Mountain High Mountain Oolong also from Shanlinxi.
3)      A 2 oz. bag of BaoZhong Green Oolong from Pinling.
4)      A small sample of Winter 2014 Shanlinxi Premium

The owner also included a small sample of his Matcha PowderedGreen Tea from NanTou, which is what I’ll be looking at today. I was a little off put by the yellowish green color, but this tastes very similar to a Japanese powdered Sencha and you can tell it wasn’t dyed like some powdered teas are. I am a little curious to know more of the cultivar that produced this tea, it tastes so similar to a Japanese tea that I can’t help, but think it is one of the Taiwanese-Japanese hybrids or a transplanted Japanese cultivar. Anyways, I did prepare this both with water and milk; honestly this could easily be a higher end Japanese powdered Sencha or a matcha in the $10-15 range. Regardless this was a very good powdered green tea, I was surprised at how finely ground this is and this is prone to slight clumping, but nowhere as bad most Chinese powdered green teas. It didn’t froth up as much I would like when I made it with milk and when I made it with water, but I can ignore that. Definitely worth checking out.  
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Midweek Milky Matcha (Powdered Green Tea) from eBay





Today I had a nice powdered green tea. It was a Korean powdered green tea from this eBay seller, while it was not as good as a proper Korean Malcha, it had a nice mix of sweetness and bitterness. I wouldn’t prepare it with water because it is considerably bitterer although when brewed with milk it is perfectly palatable. Like many powdered green teas it is prone to clumping, I mixed two grams of sugar in with the powdered tea and still it was very lumpy. Overall it is not bad for culinary grade powdered green tea, it is quite economical and I am probably going to use the rest baking something like green tea bread. 
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