Today's gift tea from my brother David, bought at Mecca Coffee Company , is a little out of my normal black tea comfort zone. It's green tea with citrus and ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba is a herb used in Chinese medicine with some studies done by western medicine . The primary things it's taken for in the west is memory and mental speed. The studies done have been with caplets, not as tea just for what it's worth. I made 4 cups using the Assam tea press and the green tea setting, 175 degrees Fahrenheit, on the smart kettle. I did a 3 minute brew time. Being a green tea I'm not going to be using milk with it. Just as a note, it seems to have some particle smaller than the holes in the infuser basket on the tea press. This led to a number of particles floating in the tea. As green tea normally isn't that small I assume that those are either from the citrus or ginkgo. It has a fairly strong citrus smell while being brewed with a ...
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