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Originally posted by Broadside:
What you are really making is sweet tea, not iced tea.

It's the same thing.

Steep either Irish Breakfast or Darjeeling tea in hot water.

Allow to cool to room temperature.

Pour over ice.

Drink.

I steep three Luzianne bags in a small sauce pot. I guess it's probably a 2 qt pot. Fill 3/4 way with water and the tea bags, bring to a boil for a minute and then let steep for 5 minutes or so. I pour that hot liquid directly over 3/4 cup of granulated sugar in my gallon pitcher and stir a bit. Then I repeatedly fill the pot with tea bags still in it and pour that into the pitcher. I use a wooden spoon to stir as I pour and also I press the tea bags to get more out of them while I am pouring. I do that until it's almost full and then drop some ice in to get it started cooling down faster.

Pouring the hot water over the sugar dissolves it. I make simple syrup for other things or if I am making unsweetened tea for guests.

Or I buy Milo's sweet tea.

The only way I know is to boil the water, put in sugar and add tea bags. Once you get the right color/flavor, pour it in a container full of ice.

I like different brands of tea, Lipton is mostly what I use but there are a few others and flavors.

Decaffeinated green tea is like water to me. It’s about the only thing I drink.

We have electric kettle for the water, which comes from HTeaO. We also have Keurig, but we don’t use it nearly as much.

I’m not picky on the brand of green tea. Currently we have Signature from Albertsons, Salada, and I’ve used Lipton. Our Keurig pods are HEB branded.

We empty the teabag contents into a metal cylindrical diffuser, and then drop that into a gallon plastic container or a single cup. We do a full kettle for the gallon with the rest room temperature after a while brewing.

I have a Yeti always sitting around somewhere with tea in it. My hot tea coffee/tea cup is also floating around somewhere.

It not iced tea, but if you need a pick me up on a really hot day...

Make 8 cups of coffee at 4x strength (i.e., if you use 1 scoop per cup, use four scoops per cup) directly onto 1/2 cup raw sugar (i.e., put sugar in the pot, make the coffee into that pot). Stir until fully dissolved.

Add enough 1/2 & 1/2 to float your boat.

Chill in refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

About the time you are so dead from working in the heat you are ready to call EMS, drink it all.

Its highly caffeinated, melted coffee ice cream.

You'll thank me.

I use one of the 1.7 L kettles to boil the water and use a stainless steel pan to make the tea with 60% Green tea bags(Uncle Lee's Organic) and 40% Black tea bags(Lipton}.

I use three quarts of water total and immerse the tea bags for 5 to 7 minutes total. I then add Stevia in the Raw without Erythritol. After it has cooled for several hours, I add the juice of one or two lemons and bottle in quart jars.

The Japanese are thought to live 6 to 8% longer since they drink three cups of Green tea a day. All I drink year round is filtered water and tea.

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When I read the original post I knew how this was going to go down . Iced coffee ....

dedicated very old well used sauce pan that holds perfect amount of water, 2 of the family sized tea bags, Luizianne brand usually, but almost any will work perfectly. bags in water on burner, when water starts a low boil turn off heat, let steep for 10 minutes pour into gallon container, 1 cup of sugar.
top off jug with fresh cool water, stir for a few seconds.
dont put in fridge, let set on counter until room temp then put in fridge.
method has made perfect gallons of iced tea for decades

However you make it, pour over ice in a Mason jar.

No boiling water or SunTea, which is close to boiling water this summer with the heat...

Cold Brew Tea - Luzianne Tea and I'm sure others offer a cold brew tea bag. You simply fill up the container with cold water and drop in one bag per quart.

Depending on how dark or light you prefer it, just check it and it will turn quickly. Made a gallon last night.. It will be done in 3-5 minutes or you can leave in if you like stronger tea.

Link to the Tea

Note: the Luzianne Cold Brew is black tea with a citrus flavor, Liptons Cold Brew doesn't have the infusions that some do, and Wal-Mart has it's own Great Brand of Cold Brew tea bags.

This method is so simple a cave man can do it... No boiling, no pots to clean up, just water in a container and drop in tea bags then Bob's your Uncle...

My wife likes sweet ice tea and uses Luzianne one quart tea bags. She adds sugar after seeping.

I like unsweetened ice tea. I use oolong tea bags.

Both are made by boiling water with a pinch of salt, then adding the tea bags after removing the boiling water from its heat source.

Bag of Lipton cold brew in the top of a glass quart bottle, filled with filtered water/well water.

Leave overnight, cut with fresh water.

So I’m not of much help until it comes to the sweetener. (I make sun tea).

As far as sweetener, you need to get some lemon verbena. You’ll need around two handfuls of leaves. Put them in a large mason jar and pour scalding hot simple syrup over the top of them. Let that sit in your pantry for a couple weeks. Use that lemon verbena syrup to sweeten your tea.

I get compliments on my sweet tea being the best that anyone has tasted, and everyone loves the flavor that they can’t put their finger in. The tea I make is mediocre. The lemon verbena syrup is the magic.

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Originally posted by HRK:
No boiling water or SunTea, which is close to boiling water this summer with the heat...

Cold Brew Tea - Luzianne Tea and I'm sure others offer a cold brew tea bag. You simply fill up the container with cold water and drop in one bag per quart.

Depending on how dark or light you prefer it, just check it and it will turn quickly. Made a gallon last night.. It will be done in 3-5 minutes or you can leave in if you like stronger tea.

I tried this and gave up on it after a couple tries. Could never get the tea to not be weak even using the bags allegedly meant for cold brew and letting it sit for days in the fridge. The tea was always weak as hell for me.

My wife uses the Mr coffee coffee maker.
6 bags, 6 cups of water and hits brew.
Just under a cup of sugar in the pitcher.
Pour in and stir.

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Originally posted by jaaron11:



This is our usual method as well, though we use Yorkshire brand loose leaf tea.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I...B7&sprefix=york&th=1

Pro move using better tea.

I do it the way SC does. I don't like sweetened tea, so for the Mr Coffee, I use 8 bags. 4 Earl Grey and 4 Constant Comment. If I only have English Black Tea, same number of bags, add lemon when served. Good hot or cold.

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Originally posted by scratchy:
I don't like sweetened tea...

This is why I referred to it as iced tea, and not sweet tea. The sweetening of it is the easy part. The method of brewing is where we have scores of different methods.

If you want sweet tea, go to Sudan! About 10:00, they have their tea break and drink a cup of the sweetest tea this side of the Nile!