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Anlina drank Juroen Kitchen Grade Matcha Powder by Yunomius

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I picked up this matcha for making lattes, since I’ve been using a lot of my higher quality stuff for it.

This is really good but I can definitely notice the difference in quality compared to the Grand Cru Matcha from DAVDs. This one has a lovely grassy flavour with a pleasant amount of bitterness, but the flavour isn’t as intense.

The mouth feel is also most notably different. This matcha has a slightly gritty, pasty mouth feel. While the grind is very fine and stays suspended nicely, it’s much coarser than the Grand Cru. While I do like that this doesn’t clump up as much as the Grand Cru, the mouth coating experience isn’t as pleasant.

Still, for half the price, I feel like I’m getting excellent value. The flavour is definitely better than some matchas I’ve had in store-bought lattes.

Flavors: Bitter, Grass

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I grew up drinking jasmine green tea with meals, but really fell in love with tea on a trip to Britain in elementary school. My first great love was Earl Grey, and I still adore it and all its variants.

I discovered the beauty of loose leaf tea much later, when, on impulse, I picked up a few teas that were on clearance at a home store. My introduction to loose leaf teas were Masala Chai and Provence Rooibos by the Metropolitan Tea Co and an unknown brand of kukicha and gyokuro (little did I know what a precious treasure I’d stumbled onto with that.)

At the time I was lucky to live in a place with multiple tea shops and several places to have afternoon tea, which is a delight I still miss.

Tea is part of my daily ritual and a nice, affordable way to appease the collector in me.

I enjoy distinctive whites, greens and oolongs, flavoured blacks, and herbals that are heavy on the citrus, lavender or mint.

Rating rubric, to give myself some consistency:
0-15 Yuck, not even drinkable.
16-30 Disappointing, not really inclined to give it a second try.
31-45 Disappointing, but maybe there’s potential? Worth one more try, prepped differently.
46-60 Mediocre, not terrible but not memorable.
61-75 Not bad. I’ll definitely finish what I have and might buy again.
76-90 Very enjoyable. Tasty, complex, it’ll keep me coming back.
91-100 BEST! I love everything about it and I will drink it forever.

Beyond tea, I’m a sex educator, polyamory activist, and radical queer. I love backwoods camping, abstract painting, baking & cooking, nail polish, cats, ceramic sculpture, and home nesting.

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