How to Prepare Cold Brew Tea
Instead of using hot water or boiling water to infuse the tea leaves, cold brew tea is an iced tea. When preparing iced tea with the cold brew technique, the steeping period is substantially longer since cold water doesn't produce flavors as readily as hot water. Similar to preparing sun tea, but using a huge pitcher of cold-brewed tea steeping in the refrigerator as opposed to the sun. Tea bags or loose leaf tea can both be used to make cold brew tea, while loose leaf tea often has greater taste profiles. With these helpful hints and our straightforward cold brew recipe, you can learn how to prepare cold brew tea.
How to Prepare Cold Brew Tea
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Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon loose leaf tea for every 8 ounces of water
- Optional Flavorings (raspberries, fresh mint, flower petals, lemons, cucumbers, etc)
- Water
Directions
Pour cold or room temperature water into a glass pitcher.
Add the loose leaf tea. The leaves can be put directly in the pitcher or added to a tea strainer for subsequent simple removal.
The pitcher should be placed in the refrigerator covered with a lid or tea towel.
For six to twelve hours, let the tea soak in the cold water. Black tea, oolong tea, pu-erh tea, and herbal tea should steep for 8 to 12 hours while green and white tea should steep for 6 to 8 hours.
To get the flavor you want, taste the tea every few hours. Pour the concentrated tea through a fine-mesh strainer to get rid of the tea leaves once the tea has finished steeping.
If desired, enhance the tea with additional ingredients before serving it over ice cubes.
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