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It has been some time now, but we did get a request some time back from one of our favorite Canadian customers (Sundae1888) to create a malt flavored Genmaicha. It took us a while to work it out, but here it is!

For those of you unfamiliar with Genmaicha, the word means “brown rice tea”. It has its origins in Japan, where during times of tea shortages or economic hardship, the people would stretch their tea supply by combining it with toasted brown rice. It is sometimes referred to as “popcorn” tea because the grains of rice sometimes pop (resembling popcorn) while being toasted.

For those of you unfamiliar (or, as I was, only vaguely familiar) with malt: malting is a process involving soaking cereal grains in water and allowing them to start germinating, then applying heat to stop the germination process. Malted milk is milk that has been enriched by malted grains.

The idea was first conceived by James Horlick, a pharmacist from London, who thought to create a nutritional supplement for infants. Malted milk went on to be consumed by children and adults, in malt shops with ice cream, and even in confectionaries (malted milk balls).

And now, we have a malted milk flavored tea!

Our Tea of the Week for the week of November 23, 2009

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We had so much fun last week, we’re doing it again!

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The tenth individual (one reply per person, please) to reply to this post via email with the correct answer to the following question will receive a free pouch of tea! Question: Who invented malted milk?