Rah's Thoughts on Tea

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. 

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.