What is a Spice Tea

I'm making a pumpkin ale and i have read a lot of threads talking about spice teas. I can't seem to find what is meant by that, can any one help me on this?

i think what they're referring to is the specialty grains, making the "spice tea" i haven't heard it used for anything else... hoepfully someone else will chime in

I've heard it being used as something that you add to your secondary to add more spice flavor.
Basically take whatever spices you're going to use (cinnamon, etc) and steep it in a cup of hot water to make a tea of sorts. Cool that down and add to your secondary.

Never done it myself, but that's what I've always believed it to be.

In fact, here's a pumpkin ale recipe with instructions for adding a spice tea.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/thunderstruck-pumpkin-ale-ag-extract-versions-26699/

Chai, minus the milk, is a indian variant of a spiced tea.

An alternate version to using hot water, which can boil off some of the aromatics from the spices, is to simply mix your spices with enough vodka or pure grain alcohol to cover them, let it sit for an hour (2 to 3 hours if one of the spices is whole vanilla bean, which you should split open beforehand). The alcohol will sanitize the spices and you won't lose any of the aromatics. It's best to add the tea after primary fermentation, since a vigorous primary could also cause you to lose some of the aromatics.

Thanks for the advise. I think what i'm going to do this time around is boil water, add the spices, add priming sugar, then rack on top in the keg for natural carbed from the tap.