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How to Brew Ippodo Tea

With tea, you control the final flavor. Start with our brewing guides.

Four white teacups from Ippodo Tea containing different types of tea - one with bright green matcha, two with yellow-colored teas of slightly different shades, and one with reddish-brown tea. The cups are arranged in a square formation and photographed from above against a white background with subtle shadows.
Tea type
All Matcha Gyokuro Sencha Bancha Teabags
Method
Hot Cold Brew Iced Boiling Hot Latte
Pouring wooden spoonful of tightly rolled dried green tea into brown handmade banko-ware Japanese Kyusu teapot banko-yaki
Sencha |
Standard Sencha Brew
Our standard recipe for brewing loose-leaf sencha for an easy, every-day drinking experience.
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Hot water being poured into Japanese artisan made ivory kyusu Japanese teapot from shining stainless steel stovetop kettle
Sencha |
Piping Hot Sencha
Hot brewing is a quick and easy way to get delicious tea. This recipe makes for a more refreshing and exhilarating experience.
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Green tea being poured from elegant spout of ivory teapot into small rounded modern glass pitcher with white Ippodo Tea logo
Sencha |
Iced Sencha
For a fast, fragrant pitcher of iced tea, brew a strong batch of sencha using boiling hot water, and then pour over ice, diluting its strength and balancing its flavor.
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Cold brewed sencha in a regular glass and wine glass with a gray background.
Sencha | Shincha |
Cold Brew Sencha
Cold brew with just ice and clean water to bring out sencha's full lushness, natural sweetness, and umami.
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Two small white porcelain Japanese tea cups of light color shincha green tea on silver metal dual petal form saucers
Sencha | Shincha |
Standard Shincha Brew
Our standard recipe for brewing loose-leaf Shincha. Discover the vibrant and energetic quality of these freshly harvested tea leaves.
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Person pouring water from silver teapot through clipped Drip Teabags into two white mugs with plates of butter toast on table
Sencha | Shincha |
Shincha Drip Teabags
Easily enjoy the fresh fragrance of Shincha with these unique pour-over style teabags.
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Pouring luminescent green New Harvest Sencha tea into three Ippodo glasses with ice from Yakishime Japanese kyusu teapot
Sencha | Shincha |
Iced Shincha
Fresh Shincha, served the most refreshing way possible: in a tall glass of ice.
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Host holding red brown lacquered wooden Marubon serving tray by Ippodo Tea Co. filled with six decorative cups of green tea
Gyokuro | Sencha |
Recipe for Sharing (Gyokuro or Sencha)
Prepare large amounts of tea with your everyday kyusu.
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