[ahD5zae7]

I'm trying to get into japanese green teas. They are plenty artisanal for me, at least the good stuff is. Temperature and time control when brewing is close to coffee pour over brewing, maybe not quite there. Water quality matters just as much - I'm adding minerals to osmotic filtered water, just as I did with coffee. When done properly they taste wonderful, although this is subjective of course. Caffeine content is much lower than coffee, unless you go into matcha tea, which is even more artisanal and expensive (per gram). And if you love spending money, making it can be even more expensive than coffee (per gram, not per cup) - it's not really difficult to spend over $30 for a 50 gram bag. And some even say it's healthy.

tl;dr: try japanese green coffee.

[milkytron]

I highly recommend genmaicha if you haven't had it yet. By far my favorite green tea.