While in cold climates, tea is used to warm up, hot tea can also be used to cool down, such as Moroccan mint tea, a brew of green tea leaves mixed with mint leaves.

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Many older people make a daily brew of mountain tea from dried herbs such as sage, thyme, mint, and chamomile, and sweeten it with honey from local bees.

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If you brew a green tea at 80C for 2 minutes, you will not observe a (statistically significant) difference in taste versus 1 min at 90C or 30 seconds at boiling.

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Salespeople will even whip them up a frothy chocolate protein and carbohydrate shake or brew a cup of herbal tea.

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All other factors controlled, green tea and black tea in a teabag brew at the same rate.

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Slowly but surely some ideas began to brew and I started playing with Absolut Wild Tea.

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All drinks were tea-coloured, but were designed to mask some of the normal sensory cues associated with tea drinking (such as smell, taste and familiarity of the brew).

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