2nd Yokohama Ochaberi Column

We often hear from our customers, "The tea served at this shop is really delicious, but if you make it yourself, you can't make it the same way."
Of course, we don't use special tea only for tea in the shop. 

The basics of how to make delicious tea

• 1. Fresh tea leaves (important!)
• 2 Put the appropriate amount of tea leaves into the teapot/pot.
• 3 Pour hot water temperature suitable for the tea leaves into the tea leaves
• 4 Extract at the extraction time that suits the tea leaves

And more importantly, the characteristics of the production areas and producers selected by each tea shop are different.
It is to ask questions about the characteristics of the tea of ​​the shop and listen carefully. 

when was it picked? Where is the production area? Who are the producers and production factories? What kind of tea is it?
Why this variety? And how is the tea made? 

A true tea specialty store can accurately answer this question. 

At our company, "This tea is a deep-steamed tea with a strong flavor from the Yabukita cultivar of Shizuoka Makinohara, which was picked on April 28th. There are many teas of stable quality in this year.The tea is produced by a tea master even in Makinohara, so please try it.The amount of tea leaves is 6 to 8 g, the water temperature is around 80 degrees, and the brewing time is 45 seconds. Please put it in so that the green becomes darker slowly before and after,” according to each tea.

If you are serious about tea and have a passion to deliver delicious tea, the above is the basics. 

Only! ! 
In fact, there are things you need to do to make delicious tea that you can't miss more than the above! 

that is···
"I want to drink delicious tea, I want to be able to make it" is a strong feeling. 

No matter how much tea leaves are weighed, and the best tea is brewed at the right temperature, "I will put it as I was told, with a bored, cold face, as if it was just a simple task." ~! ! 》The taste is completely different even with the same tea. 

To make tea delicious, the most important thing is to have a "spirit of hospitality" that makes you want to "enjoy tea and make delicious tea".
Knowing tea and making it carefully will help you to hone your "hospitality". 

This is essential for making delicious tea!
Let's be able to make tea that makes you happy and entertains your surroundings! 

May good relationships spread through tea... 

Shunpo Chaya Takanori Goto