
Last Updated: Mar. 4, 2010
Hojicha, sometimes spelled houjicha, is a Japanese style of roasted green tea. It is heavily roasted (more so that most roasted oolongs), giving the leaves and tea an appearance, flavor, and aroma totally distinct from most green teas, and indeed, from any other teas. Hojicha is a relatively new style of tea; it originated in 1920 when a Japanese merchant wanted to find a way to sell stale bancha.[1] Hojicha is usually made out of roasting bancha, but is sometimes made out of sencha, kukicha, or other varieties of green tea.1. James Norwood Pratt, "Bancha, Kukicha, Hojicha and Genmaicha", T-Ching (blog), Feb. 3, 2009.
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