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The Problem with tea...

Only due to the fact, that I am for the moment exploring the possibilities of tea infused beers, I stumbled over this issue... If you are buying a fancy green [or black] tea, you have most of the time small blossoms and flower petals, pieces of fruit rind, dried fruits and other interesting things laying among the tea leaves. This is all decoy! This "botanicals" won't give a lot of additional aroma to the tea. But stop - why is aromatized tea tasting so fruity, zesty, spicy...? Because the producers are bathing the tea leaves in essences and oils from the fruit. Or even not from the fruit. See - one pretty well known example is, that you can produce a strong strawberry aroma, if you are manipulate wood splints. The essence out of it, you will find quite in everything, which says, that it contains "strawberry flavor". But hold on - now comes the bummer: as wood chips are a natural source, producer can say: natural strawberry flavors! I am not totally...