Preparations for making a cup of Sencha

 

  1. Warm up the cups and teapot                              2. Measure the amount of  tea leaves 

  3. Pour freshly boiled water into your  teapot, for proper infusing temperature please refer to special table.         

 4. Empty the cups                     5. After proper infusing time start to fill tea into the cups,

                                                                                                               a little at the time, to ensure each cup is of equal strength and quantity

                                                                     

            

         

Japanese green tea brewing table

Tea   Variety

number of  persons    amount   of tea leaves temperatur of     water amount  of water steeping time serving temperatur

amount  of tea in each cup

Gyokuro ( high grade) 3 10g 50°C 60ml 150 sec. 35°C 12 ml
Gyokuro ( ordinary) 3 10g 60°C 60ml 120 sec. 40°C 13 ml
Sencha ( high grade) 3 6g 70°C 180ml 120 sec. 50°C 50 ml
Sencha ( ordinary) 5 10g 90°C 450ml 60 sec. 65°C 80 ml
Genmaicha 5 15g 100°C 650ml 90 sec. 75°C 100 ml
Kokeicha 5 10g 90°C 450ml 60 sec. 65°C 80 ml
Bancha 5 15g 100°C 650ml 30 sec. 75°C 100 ml
Houjicha 5 15g 100°C 650ml 30 sec. 75°C 100 ml