Hojicha Dark Roast

Hojicha Dark RoastHojicha Dark Roast is a Japanese roasted green tea with a sweet aroma and a deeply toasted flavor that delights with each sip. Before being harvested in June, the tea leaves used for Hojicha Dark Roast are grown in full sun. The whole leaves are then carefully steamed, rolled, dried, and roasted to create this rounded and full bodied tea. The roasting process removes any bitterness and most of the caffeine, making Hojicha Dark Roast the perfect drink

Add warm water into a chawan (tea bowl) to heat the vessel and soften a chasen (bamboo whisk)

The exterior decoration known as Sendan (千段)

Capacity: 190 ml

this Mino Ware tea cup is perfect for warming up with hojicha on chilly mornings and cold evenings

The tea bowl is light yet spacious with a rounded interior for easily whisking Hojicha Powder

rinse the Bamboo Whisk bristles in hot water as soon as possible

this traditional tea bowl is the perfect size for whisking tea powder and holding comfortably in your hands as you feel the lightly textured surface

How to make koicha (thick matcha)

the areas of the bamboo exposed to the furnace smoke are transformed into a beautiful deep brown color over time

and without the use of sponges or soap of any kind

or a modern gray color

Whisk together with a chasen (bamboo whisk) in a brisk M or W shape until the matcha is fully dispersed