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Garden Glimpses – Kiroku Tea Garden

Kiroku Tea Garden is a fourth generation tea garden in Wazuka Japan, an area whose mountain tea fields & undulating terraced slopes thick with fog make perfect tea-growing conditions. It was founded nearly 100 years ago, before farming machines became available & their grandfather cleared their fields completely by hand. Today they are owned entirely…
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Garden Glimpses – Tea Farm Mitocha

Every other month since the start of this year, I have been posting instalments for my Garden Glimpses series, of which the aim is to shine a spotlight on a specific tea garden / farm in each post. Previously I have discussed Azuma Tea Garden and Tarui Tea Farm and today I will be focusing…
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A guide to preparing cold brewed and iced Japanese tea

Now that the warmer weather has arrived and we are transitioning into the summer months, I tend to drink less hot tea due to the weather and instead I choose to drink more cold brewed or iced Japanese teas. Earlier in my journey with tea, I found it hard to master the techniques of making…
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What is Kuromame?(Black Soybean ”Tea”)

Back in December of 2022 I made my own Japanese tea advent calendar that included both caffeinated traditional options and caffeine free tisanes, as I’ve been aiming to explore the world of Japanese tisanes and thought there was no better way to do that than including them in my advent calendar. One of those tisanes…
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What is Amacha? – A Japanese Herbal Tisane

What Is Amacha? How do you steep it? Is there more than one way you can use it? Those are all questions I’ll be answering in todays post about a phenomenally under rated traditional Japanese tisane. The Amacha I’ll be featuring in this post was purchased* via Yunomi and you can find it on their…