Lewis Perin wrote:

Even though it's only a question of the liquor, there is vagueness in
lots of published numbers when it comes to steep times and
temperatures, as well as multiple steeps. (Multiple steeps are
important with regard to caffeine when the temperature is relatively
low and the first steep is fairly swift, which is the way most people
who like green teas do it.)

It also stands to reason that substances other than caffeine are
affected by multiple steeps. For example, I simply cannot believe
that the anti-oxidants in a cup of liquor from the 3rd steep are
close to the same that they were for the 1st steep.


Randy