Green tea for beginners

Jasmine green tea is a popular green tea. Good quality Jasmine green tea is made with quality tea leaves and scented with Jasmine leaves. They have sweet, floral flavor which many people like.

Best to prepare Jasmine green tea with water below boiling and infused for a few minutes.

2. Moroccan Mint Green Tea

3. Genmaicha Green Tea is blend of Japanese green tea and puffed brown rice. Flavor is sweet, roasty.

4. Dragonwell Green Tea - most popular Chinese green tea. Flavor usually mild and sweet with chestnut note.

Prepare with water below boiling and steep 2-3

5. Houjicha Green Tea- roasted Japanese green tea. Lower in caffeine than most green teas. Woodsy flavor that coffee drinkers like and brewed at wider range of temps.

6. Kukicha Green Tea - steamed green tea made from twigs of tea plant. Low in caffeine. Vegetal, sweet flavor and can handle inexact brewing.

7. Sencha Green Tea - Japan's most popular. Flavor vegetal, seaweedy or grassy. Best below boiling water and steeped around 45 seconds.
Alternative is Bancha green tea and slightly rougher, earthier flavor. It is less expensive.
Good with meals.

8. Gyokuro Green Tea - Japanese tea with distinct umami flavor. Short infusion times and water below boiling.

9. Matcha Green Tea - Like Gyokuro shade- grown, but powdered. Whisked with warm water. Can be used in smoothies and other powdered tea recipes. Bittersweet flavor.

10. Bi Luo Chun Green Tea - One of China' most famous green teas. If brewed at low temperature it can be sweet, smooth, vegetal flavor that appeals to many tea drinkers.