Five minutes with a cup of tea, every weekday morning. Pour the water, watch the colour arrive, and hear one true thing about what's in the cup — why lemon myrtle carries more lemon than a lemon does, why hibiscus isn't a flower, why no ginger plant has ever been found growing wild. Then one thought worth carrying into the day. A new blend each week, Monday to Friday. Made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. Best taken with something steeping.
Genmaicha is a cup of green tea and toasted rice, pale yellow in the light, with leaves that open more with every pour. The first infusion is bold and quick, the second softer, quieter, drawn from the same leaves but changed by time and patience. What remains after the first pour is not less, only different—waiting for someone willing to stay for another cup.
Today's cup: Genmaicha (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/products/genmaicha)— Camellia sinensis and brown rice.
1 tsp, 200mL, 75°C, two minutes. It takes a second infusion.
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A tea and a musing every weekday morning.
Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. To join our tea ritual - click here. (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/pages/subscribe)
21 Oct 2026
Genmaicha Green - A Forest Asked to Sit Down
The cup of Genmaicha arrives pale yellow, edged with green, the grains drifting as the leaves slowly open and flatten. Watch long enough and the leaves begin to look like themselves again, as if the garden has found its way into the cup. In the tea garden, the plants are shaped to the reach of a person, held at the height a hand can find. The plant doesn’t know it’s been shaped, but the world is full of quiet adjustments made for someone’s reach. There’s probably one near you now, set at just the right height.
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Today's cup: Genmaicha (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/products/genmaicha)— Camellia sinensis and brown rice.
1 tsp, 200mL, 75°C, two minutes. It takes a second infusion.
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A tea and a musing every weekday morning.
Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. To join our tea ritual - click here. (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/pages/subscribe)
20 Oct 2026
Genmaicha Green - Black Tea Isn’t Green Tea Gone Wrong
Genmaicha is a cup that begins with colour—pale, yellow-green, clear enough to see the bottom. The grains catch the eye, toasted gold, a few burst open, but it’s the leaves beneath that do the work, darkening and deepening as they steep. Every true tea, green or black, starts from the same plant, but what happens after picking changes everything. Some things are kept green, caught at the moment, while others are left to darken and become something else entirely. Most are allowed to change. Both end up in someone’s hands, on a morning like this.
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Today's cup: Genmaicha (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/products/genmaicha)— Camellia sinensis and brown rice.
1 tsp, 200mL, 75°C, two minutes. It takes a second infusion.
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A tea and a musing every weekday morning.
Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. To join our tea ritual - click here. (https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/pages/subscribe)
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