Steamed green tea with a light brownish yellow liquor with toasty flavour, tending sweet and bright with toasted rice kernels. A specialty Japanese green tea blended with fire-toasted rice. A good grade Japan sencha is blended with the toasted rice. The fresh vegetative character of the green tea is imparted on the cup but it is tempered with the bakey-like character of the rice. There is a natural sweetness and almost chewy character to the finish of this tea. During the firing of the rice, it is not uncommon for rice to pop like popcorn, hence the pet name popcorn-tea. This tea mixed with roasted rice has less caffeine.

This tea is produced under ISO 14001 Certified Environmental Management Standards. Japanese steamed green tea's have traditionally high antioxidant levels.

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Hot Tea:
- Boil water and let cool to 180F/90C
- Steep for 3 minutes seconds (longer=stronger)
- Use approx. 1 tsp per cup
- To re-infuse use higher temperature/less time

Iced Tea:
- Pour 1 1/4 cups boiled water on 6 tsps of tea
- Steep for 5 minutes
- Pour into pitcher while straining leaves.
- For a quart of tea add ice & top w/cold water
- Garnish and sweeten to taste