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Mature summer tea leaves are boiled until they turn brown, kneaded, and packed into a wooden or plastic barrel under a stone so no air gets in. Lactic acid bacteria sour them over two to several weeks, and the leaves are then dried in the sun for one to three days. It is fermented once, by bacteria only, with no mould stage.
Fully documentedTea leaf15 days – 31 days
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedFarm process with no fixed batch size. Nothing is added but the leaf. The thesis suggests that adding back the water the leaves were boiled in may help the lactic bacteria.
Lactic acid bacteria come from the production setting[nishioka2021]
Starter
spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 15 days – 31 days
Start
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What changes:Summer tea leaves boil in a kettle for a few minutes until they turn brown
Step 1 of 4
Pick and boil the leaves
Time
A few minutes in a kettle, until the leaves turn brown
Reported
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
L. plantarum
Output: boiled leaves.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
green to brown
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Mature summer tea leaves are boiled until they turn brown, kneaded, and packed into a wooden or plastic barrel under a stone so no air gets in. Lactic acid bacteria sour them over two to several weeks, and the leaves are then dried in the sun for one to three days. It is fermented once, by bacteria only, with no mould stage. Made in 4 steps over 15 days – 31 days. The longest step, pack into a barrel under a stone, takes 14–28 days (Nishioka H. 2021). Lactiplantibacillus pentosus and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum do most of the fermenting.
Awa-bancha is fermented once, anaerobically, by lactic bacteria alone. Goishi-cha and Ishizuchi-kurocha first grow a mould on steamed leaf, then sour it; Awa-bancha boils the leaf and skips the mould.
Awa-bancha has been produced since the 19th century (Horie 2026). In 2018 Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs selected the Shikoku mountain fermented-tea techniques, Awa-bancha among them, as folk techniques needing a record, and in 2021 it designated the Awa-bancha production method an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan.