Genmaicha Yamasaki Green Tea

Description

🇯🇵 Japanese Green🍚 Toasted Rice☕ Lower Caffeine🌿 Loose Leaf

The popcorn-tea cup — Japanese sencha layered with toasted brown rice, comforting and naturally lower in caffeine.

Genmaicha was born of thrift: a way to stretch expensive green tea with cheap toasted rice. The accident produced one of Japan’s most-loved cups. The roasted, popped grains add a warm, almost bready depth that softens the green tea’s edge — and dilutes the caffeine in the bargain.

The cup smells like fresh toast, brews pale gold, and tastes simultaneously vegetal and roasty. Easy to drink, gentle on the stomach, a perfect afternoon tea — the Japanese drink it more often after meals than at the start of the day.

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Real Sencha

Japanese steamed green tea base, not a generic green

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Toasted Brown Rice

Whole grains, some popped — warm, bready depth

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Lower Caffeine

Naturally diluted — gentler than pure green tea

✨The Sampson Promise

We only put ingredients in our products that we would use on our own family. Every ingredient has a purpose. If it doesn’t need to be there, it isn’t.

Type

Green Tea (Genmaicha)

Caffeine

Lower

Origin

Japan

Format

Loose Leaf

Steep Time

2–3 min

Servings

~25 cups (50g)

Tasting Notes

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Toasted Rice

Aroma

Warm, nutty, almost the smell of fresh-toasted bread. The roasted rice is the cup’s anchor — present in the nose long before the leaf shows up.

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Soft Sencha Body

Body

The green-tea base sits underneath the rice — a soft, light umami body that the rice rounds rather than masks. The cup tastes balanced, not weighted toward one or the other.

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Comforting Finish

Aftertaste

Roasty, slightly sweet, the kind of finish that makes you want to keep drinking. No bitterness if you stay within the steep window.

How to Brew

01

Measure

One level teaspoon (about 2g) per 8oz cup.

02

Heat the Water

80°C / 175°F. Cooler than for a black tea — sencha and toasted rice both turn bitter under boiling water. Bring water to a boil and let it stand 2–3 minutes.

03

Steep 2–3 Minutes

Two minutes for a lighter cup, three for fuller toast character. Strain cleanly — over-steeping pushes the rice flavour toward bitter rather than warm.

Water

80°C

Time

2–3 min

Per Cup

1 tsp

Genmaicha re-steeps beautifully two or three times — the rice keeps releasing its flavour even after the green tea fades. Don’t throw the leaves out after the first cup.

About the Tea

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Japanese Sencha

The Tea

A real sencha base — steamed, rolled, and cut into the classic needle shape. Soft, slightly umami, the right partner for the rice.

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Toasted Brown Rice

The Toast

Whole grains roasted until golden, with a small share popped white from the heat. The roasting is what gives the cup its characteristic warm, bready depth — and dilutes the caffeine of the leaf.

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Two Ingredients

The Honesty

Leaf and rice. The cup’s flavour is the relationship between them — no flavour oils, no sweeteners, no padding.

In the tin

Japanese sencha green tea, toasted brown rice (some popped).

Origin & Sourcing

Sencha-grade Japanese green tea blended with toasted brown rice — the classic genmaicha pairing. Originally born of thrift, now drunk for what it is: a warm, comforting cup with the umami of green tea and the bready warmth of fresh toast.