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[[File:Green tea Bancha.jpg|thumb|250px|Bancha]]
Bancha is the second flush of [[Sencha]]. Bancha is a simple everyday tea and qualitatively something lower. Bancha is harvested from the second flush of Sencha between summer and autumn.
== Brewing==
Bancha is steeped at approximately 70 - 80 degrees Celsius for up to 3 minutes. Infusing longer or at a higher temperature will cause the tea to taste bitter because it will extract more catechines.
== See also ==
* [[Shincha]]
* [[Sencha]]
[[Category: Green tea]]
[[Category: Japanese tea]]