Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by PigHog

Sencha is a green tea by definition. I hear that it's possible to buy sencha grown in Brazil, these days, but it's not really somewhere that I'd generally associate with that type of tea. Predominantly and traditionally it's a Japanese tea, of course.

Call it what people understand, I guess -- one man's redundant information is another man's um...gold?

Thanks Pig, ummm Hog, ummm Pig Hog, ummm Mister Pig Hog... :-)

Not meaning to be condescending at all! What I mean is that you won't find a sencha that isn't a green tea because it won't exist. Similarly, you won't find a 'proper' sencha that isn't Japanese.

To those in the know, this is all obvious and is what makes sencha sencha. To those that don't, 'sencha' alone may not mean much, so qualifying it with the essentially redundant phrase 'Japanese green sencha' or even worse 'Japanese green sencha tea' (cringe), will help to explain a lot.

Originally Posted by MickR

And here's me just sucking back a tepid tin cup of black, unsweetened Tetley tea bag extra strong after getting caught up with other things, which is why it's tepid...I guess I might be the blue jeans, T-shirt and dirty bandanna amongst you tuxedo's .


Mick

Your not alone micK, my collar is blue under any description,lol. No tuxedo here

Originally Posted by PigHog

Not meaning to be condescending at all! What I mean is that you won't find a sencha that isn't a green tea because it won't exist. Similarly, you won't find a 'proper' sencha that isn't Japanese.

To those in the know, this is all obvious and is what makes sencha sencha. To those that don't, 'sencha' alone may not mean much, so qualifying it with the essentially redundant phrase 'Japanese green sencha' or even worse 'Japanese green sencha tea' (cringe), will help to explain a lot.

No I know, don't be silly, I was just being silly, because I don't know your name :-)

So, from now on I'll sound less newbish and say Sencha sans Japanese and sans green :-) I love learning new stuff...

Definitely sans 'tea'!

Today's tea contribution:

Sitting here having my morning relaxation hookah, and polishing off the rest of my gallon of iced tea from work

Kumamoto Yabe Supreme in the trusty Kazuhiko Uchida Bizenyaki kyūsu:

TOTD 23/07/14

So, this afternoon I took a walk to the markets at lunchtime (as I normally do) and bought some organic dried peppermint leaves. So the tea was peppermint leaves, liquorice root, Sencha, ginseng and Gotu Kola. It was astonishing. Astonishing I tell you!

While I wait for my conference call to begin, Wild-Picked Sheng Pu’er. Really earthy. Almost like a dried mushroom flavor. Very hearty flavor and unlike any teas I've had thus far.