Three Ways To Make Iced Tea
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2017
- How do you make the best Iced tea? When the weather heats up there is nothing better than tasting a vibrant homemade iced tea. Avoid those flavoured bottled tea made from low quality leaf and learn how to make iced tea easily.
These iced tea recipes can be used for any type of tea (White, Green, Yellow, Black and Raw PuErh). We used a high quality Japanese Sencha green tea.
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Video about Coldbrewing: • How to Cold Brew Tea
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Hey Don,
I'm slightly new to your channel and after seeing a lot of your content, I decided to go to your shop in England all the way across the Atlantic! I bought a lot tea and tea equipment from your shop and brewed my first cold brew in Scotland. I still have yet to try one in my home in the States. Thank you so much for creating this channel! I currently am growing my own tea plant and have a slight obsession with tea, so it's wonderful to see that there are other people with such an interest in tea. Anyway, I love your content and I'll keep you updated on the plant and all that! Thank you!
You forgot my favorite way. It is by sun brewing the tea in a glass container and setting it in the sun for- depends on the tea but like a fine Japanese tea it would be around 8 hrs.
Nice thing in Norway is the long summer sunlight so I have a longer time to play with the timing of my teas. Thanks again for the tutorial and the wonderful teas that you bring to use.
and setting ice in it to cool it off and enjoy.
"Where is the iced tea"
me: laughs in southern america. We just put 2 big cups of tea in our SWEET iced tea :)
Great, great video! My coffee shop is just starting to offer lose leaf tea and you used some great descriptive and technique.
13:20 The Gordon Ramsey of tea xD
🤔😂
Don is nicer and more knowledgeable about the origins of his products.
Not really
I have always been a coffee drinker, never liked tea, I always felt that tea tastes "weak and watered out" compared to coffee, was looking in to cold brew coffee when I stumbled in to this video, I really liked the video, so I thougt why not, so I made my first cold brew tea, I let it brew for 16 hours in the fridge, and wow, so much flavour, and low bitterness, I still dont like hot tea at all, but I love cold brew tea.
Thank you for making this video! I made cold brewed tea last night, and I realized that I've been brewing my tea incorrectly for years. The cold-brewed tea tasted worlds better than what I had been making. My friend has a cocktail shaker, and we're going to try making flash brewed tea soon. Thank you again!!
I prefer cold brewing for green tea and white tea. For all other tea's I prefer flash chilled. The brighter notes in green and white just work really well with cold brew. I'm glad you mentioned the oxidation in the tea that was brewed hot and chilled overnight but you also have to be careful with cold brew that you have a container that seals well or you end up with the same effect.
Another method I really like is sun brewing. You can only use sun brewing with teas that have already been oxidized though because the UV from the sun oxidizes the tea as it brews. You can either drink the tea warm right out of the sun, iced, or put it in the fridge for later.
Hey Don,
as always great inspirational video. Lately I'm cold brewing my Tieguanyin "new style" not roasted and barely oxidized. The one that I use is not that great with gong fu but after one night in the fridge.. oh my god, so smooth and it's the first move to convert my colleagues at work!
cold brewing is amazing, the winner for me
Your vids are very educational! Learning so much from you. Keep it up!
I came across your videos yesterday and i must have spent a good five to six hours watching your videos already. I bought a new cafe in Jordan and we are completely transforming the place and the drinks. I am travelling to London next month and will definitely pay you a visit at your store.
wonderful description of tea attributes, I enjoyed it a lot!
Finally bro, I told you a couple of months ago already, to make a video about cold brewings! You're about to become THE youtube tea-guy to go to! (=> 100.000=> 300.000 views!) Thanks again, love you!
Thank you for your educational videos , I love it 😍
I tried Japanese quince tea once and really liked it.
Fukamushi is my favorite green tea. Need to try that with the ice cubes, looks delicious
Thank you for this timely video.
This was very interesting. I will be cold brewing my green for summer from now on.
You are correct as usual. Tried and tested. Definitely the best method. Thank you. 😁
This is great! Thanks for making such a thorough video :)
Very educational! Thank you
Ur videos have made me SOO incredibly impressed and happy u have answered all my questions and u founds that u have a location here in Canada near me and I enjoy ur tea SOO much thx u so much , u just got another subscriber ;)
Thanks Don for sharing your tea passion. I am thinking about registering for an online tea course, but omg who knew that there is so much to learn about tea. Your videos help a lot. ♡
Don, this is a great video because I've always brewed like the second method, so now I'll experiment more!
This was very helpful and informative, thank you.
Hey Mei, umeboshi is sour plum. The one they serve as a side dish is tsukemono which means pickled food. Thanks for this video. Salutations from Japan.
Hi John, yes I meant those plums actually, thanks for clarifying my jumbled words!
Just found your channel, put my first batch of cold brew in the fridge, so excited for tomorrow
I stated doing the cold brew tea after seeing this four years ago. I cannot thank you enough.
Need to try the flash chilled method immediately! 🧊🍵 Looks delicious
fantastic video, thank you
I never tried the flash chilled tea :o until 5 minutes ago, but I also never tried cold brewed tea before I stumbled on this channel either. thanks for making me discover and experiment with teas :) for some reasons I just forgot about it for a while.
flash chilled tea was really good, even if I used tea bags (sorry...). Now I'm reusing the leftover tea to make cold brewed tea for a comparison.
also call me crazy but I feel like experimenting with cold brewed tea and white wine, it somehow feels like it may be a nice combo.
Did you try with white wine? I also think it sounds like it'll work, so I'm curious as to how it went!
I enjoyed this video immensely, and of course, I want to get a shaker for flash icing tea.
If you're willing to experiment with different ways to make iced tea, have you heard of "sun tea"? We live in the Southern United States, and it used to be a common way to make tea without wasting electricity when you're poor.
My grandmother used to put teabags (Black) in an enormous glass jar and fill it with water, then put it outside in the sun to steep. Once the infusion is done (color being the determining factor), you decant it into a pitcher filled with ice and add sweetener/flavor to your taste. It takes hours, and would maybe oxidize the leaf/brew a lot, but it's another way I've seen it done, and I like to use the method to make herbal tisanes. Mint, in particular, seems to work very well, though I think ginger and/or lemongrass might be nice too.
The flavor and texture are different than other hot-brew methods, primarily because the heat comes on so gradually.
I've recently been drinking a lot of iced Hōjicha. A great drink for summer when you want to stay hydrated. Previously I've been drinking mostly iced sencha during summer, but that meant that I was ingesting over 2 liters of tea per day, and that's quite a bit of coffeine. Hōjicha helps with this, and also tastes great.
Apart of brewing it overnight in the fridge I also do quite a bit of sun brewing - I let the tea stay on the kitchen counter for about 2-3 hours. Be careful not to let it sit overnight in this way - while Hōjicha can still taste OK, other Japanese teas tend to be too strong after more than a few hours in room temperature.
I like to cold brew using the leaf from a previous brew. Delicious and avoids it turning cloudy.
Nice video. Also worth mentioning is the method of brewing with ice cubes - just by putting ice cubes over the leaves and waiting for them to completely melt. Working well especially when brewing in small Gaiwan or Shiboridashi :)
Ice cubes when melted has a nasty aftertaste.
@@Susanne171062 Nah, it just felt diluted
I always use method 2 ! ;) I want to try the one that has been shaked. :D
I always brewed iced tea with a second method, because as you said the first one makes the taste of the tea old.
I didn't really know about the third method, gotta try it out today :D
Hey Don, very interesting video! I have been binge watching your videos over the last couple of weeks and have learned so much! Thank you for making this channel, keep up the great work! :) I was just wondering. Would you be able to store the ice-shaken tea in the fridge overnight like the cold-brew one or would this impact the flavor in a negative way like it did the hot-brewed tea?
Also, a while ago I read a post from a person who brewed their tea by sprinkling the tea leaves over ice cubes and letting them slowly melt in the fridge. They said it produced an amazingly smooth and delicate taste. What is your opinion on this very time consuming method? :D Do you think it could be significantly different from the normal cold-brewing method?
+Redyeti5 hey, Welcome and thanks for the question. Yes the flash chilled brew will oxidise but nit as fast as the hot brewed tea in our tests you can seal flash chilled tea in a thermos and it will keep great for 24hours. The ice brewing methods works although it often produces very strong tea shots rather than a long iced tea.
+LadyLipstick welcome!
It's a nice summer day here in Michigan and I'm brewing up some ice tea with my shaker for the first time because of this video, thanks for the videos Don.
Edit: So i was not expecting the ice to melt so fast upon pouring the brewed tea on top so the first glass i made i did two infusions each about 1gram to 150ml then used 6 ice cubes with the 300ml tea total and found it to be a little watery, still very pleasant but not very complex. My second glass i used a little bit more leaf and then only used 4 ice cubes instead of 6 and it turned out very nice. The change from always drinking tea hot is nice and i will definitely be doing this more often.
+Darin Traver ideally use more leaf for flash brewing. Usually a minimum of 3g per 100ml.
Love it! Great job! What video/phone app company/equipment are you using? I love your ability to change focus while in action!
Very nice tea dance! ☺️🙏☺️
Thank you for this experiment! My winner would have been the freshly brewed ice tee especially with Gyokuro (70°C about 2 Minutes) in order to have a rich amount of vitamins or minerals in there as well as a great complexity of taste.
Too good
Iced tea is a big thing where I am from but I hated how bitter it was (even with tons of sugar). So to have a more elevated form of iced tea is nice to see. I will try it.
Hi I love the videos and have loved the tea since strolling past in Camden many years ago. Quick question about the video - what do you use for your video camera and microphone for these videos? Quality is great
Iced tea is the go to summer drink in the American South. It is usually made by brewing double strong, sweetened with a good bit of cane sugar then poured straight over ice to cool and dilute. I've enjoyed plenty of tea this way, but, my guess is all the methods you showed make a better beverage.
TheAyeAye1 I was thinking that myself! So want to try that shaker method. Although I'm not sure that non traditional will go over at family gatherings, can you imagine? lol...
That dry tea description sounds freaking amazing. So poetic. 💙
Great video! Any Yerba Mate videos coming in the future?
my favourite one is LongIsland
I'm making the second type, but with Black Jasmine Tea with added fir spruce (picked them myself) for an foresty flavour.
When it comes to store bought iced tea, I like to pick FuzeTea (Blueberry Jasmine is my favorite. Sadly I almost only find it during summer.)
I got my first teas from Mei Leaf. So excellent...not to mention such great customer service! I got my teas in the same amount of time as a supplier close by here in the states. Thanks very much! I wonder, do you ever ice Matcha?
Ii
Where in New York City do you recommend I find some good tea? Love you guys!
Hey! Thanks for the informative video. I’m also about to make some iced tea, but I’m using Mate tea from the Andes, which behaves similarly to green tea.
Do you think I could do the Ice Brew Method with it?
Vraiment, vous m'avez donné soif ! Ah, ces Anglais et le thé !
Thank you for this brilliant tutorial, and for all the risky tasting in it.
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I typically put a lot of sencha or gyokuro leaves (gyokuro makes an excellent iced tea - if you like a lot of umami, that is) into a kyusu (Japanese teapot), and fill it up with water. Then I put it in the fridge for 30-45 minutes and it's ready to serve. I've gotten a lot of flavour this way. Of course, it's also possible to use less leaves and brew for longer. Sometimes, I'll also add some sparkling water for a fizzy green-tea drink!
I have to say, I'm curious about brewing Jade Sword as an iced tea. Not only is it my favorite Mei Leaf tea or green tea (that I have thus far tried, of course): it might be my favorite tea, period!
However, experimenting with it too much almost feels like it would be sacrilege. Especially now that you're out of stock :P
+K. Haugland fresh stock is arriving in about a week and yes it would make an excellent iced tea. Why not enjoy a couple of infusions with hot water and then cold brew the leaves?
Hey Don! Quick question... can I reuse tea leaves with the cold brew method? I typically get 5 infusions with the tea in question when brewing hot. Thanks in advance!
Hi Don great vid ... I did 2 cold brew 1) sencha (mild) & 2 ) gunpowder (almost builders tea) , i used 2tsp (5g appx) in 350ml flask ... Too little water? i can't tell how much water ur flask holds?
Don, how many grams of sencha would you recommend using for coldbrewing in a 2-quart (64 oz) mason jar? And how long should I leave it in the fridge to brew?
Hey, one question though. How many times can you reuse the tea for cold brewing?
This dude uses leaded crystal for iced tea. Class.
Hello Don :) in grams how much tea would you use for 1 liter for cold brewing green tea? I am using Lu Xue Ya tea which has larger leaves compared to Sencha so it would be different amnout using teaspoons :D and sorry If you said exact amount of tea and I missed it...
Hi Dn ! great video ! I was wondering If I can inspire me of this video to create one on my channel, and for sure i'll credit you ? ;)
I know you are all about the tea but I have a question about coffee, particularly iced. The shaken vs the long-steeped cold brew; in your video the shaken tea is superior. Is it the same for coffee?
Hi, one question about second method, It have teina?, it lost the teina?. Thank you
Would you recommend brewing sun tea? It's basically cold brew, but it's then put out in the sun for a few hours. That's how my family always brewed tea in the summer. (North East US)
+rooseveltrdPR not really a great practice to brew in temperature water which is suitable for microorganisms. I guess that you didn't have any issues so maybe I am being a bit too careful.
Do you still recommend Cold brew with unbrewed leaves? I have watched a video where you said that you don't like to cold brew unbrewed leaves since it might cause bacteral growth...
I thought you weren't a fan of method 2? You mentioned in your other cold brew video that you prefer to brew the leaves in hot water to kill off any bacteria concerns before using them in a long cold infusion. Just curious. New sub and I enjoy your videos.
Hey Don! Thank you for this very nice video! My comment is just to let you know that you forgot the link to cold brew video :)
+Marco Pagani thank you!
The third method is kinda similar to the japanese iced filter coffee. Bloom with hot water and then let the liquid flow on ice and then stirr. The downside is, it is tough to judge the brewing water to ice ratio, especially for larger volumes.
Need to get a shaker!
Hi I have been binge watching your videos came across this one and in the comments you mentioned most of the teas. But what about tung ting oolong? Can you brew it in the fridge for iced tea? And can you do chi as well? Or a fruit tea?
You can bring any tea cold brew style or flash chilled but I find that some teas suit hotter brewing in terms of the taste. Any heavily roasted tea is less likely to suit cold brewing but this depends on your taste so please do try!
I have some in the fridge now. I will let you know tomorrow. Thank you for your videos they had taught me a lot. I look at my loose leaf tea differently now.
so much unnecessary blathering. it took to 1:20 for you just to start discussing tea. but that also meant a lot of useful information about the tea itself once you got into it. so thanks, this was really helpful and informative.
... the cut grass is not really cut gras ... it's more like uncut grass ... *love it buddy ;))
I remember in high school I was doing the first method, adding honey to the hot tea and it tasted delicious ! But I have tried that again and failed miserably, I don't know what tricked I pulled back then to make it work ahah... But I have a question please ! Is it possible to use any green tea to make a cold brew ? Or only the one labelled as "suitable for hot or cold brew" ?
+deathryusaki Maybe your tastes have evolved and something you thought tasted good is not so tasty? Any loose tea can be cold brewed actually.
What is the best green tea to drink? I'm new to drinking tea and I have an English breakfast tea for the morning to wake me up but I need something with flavor to drink at other times
Also I'm from the US and if I buy from your store how would I change the US dollar to the British currency witch I'm not entirely sure how to spell
Tea boss
Add lime or lemon peel while cold brewing and color will be equally vibrant if not more so.
On 9:49, isn't that because there's too much empty space above the tea surface, thus leaving many air volume to oxidize with the tea?
Maybe you will achieve a perfect glass of iced green tea by mixing the second and third glass, is that legal?
Excellent video, I would also welcome some video on Darjeeling tea, I would love to learn some more over your channel which is so satisfying to watch.
the only good bottled green teas are the ones in japan. miss those vending machines.
Hey, I was wondering about re-using tea leaves. Say i brewed a batch but the leaves are good for another extraction - how long can I wait/keep the leaves ?
cheers
+usikd we made a video about this if you search for 'how to keep tea between infusions'.
You didn't show my favourite method. Ice brewing, it's a lot like cold brewing but colder. You put icecubes and tea in a teapot and leave it until the icecubes have molten. That takes about 2 to 4 Hours and the taste is amazing. That drink is a lifesaver on a burning hot day.
I tried to make the cold brew method with sparkling water, which was a huge mistake.
Well, you tried so others don't have to.
Hm, I tried cold brewing some sencha in the fridge overnight and it turned out kind of bitter. Not super bitter, but more bitter than what it usually is hot. I have no idea what went wrong, I did about 2 tsp in 500 ml water and left it for maybe 10 hours. Maybe less leaf or shorter brewing time would be better?
Maybe also try it with mineral water that's low on calcium once. If that makes a difference, you might want to use a water-filter in the future.
Are you sure that those three glasses don't contain wine? Ha, Ha!
For cold brewing I usually use 5grams of tea for 800ml cold water, and then I store it in the fridge for 6-8 hours. I tried japanese and chinese (longjing) green teas, and they turned out to be very good. But my favorite is a darjeeling first flush black tea which can give an extremely long floral aftertaste.
I've made a cold brew two or three times and each time it was very bitter... What have I possibly dome wrong?
+Grzegorz Cichosz how are you making it and with which tea?
Mei Leaf well: I take about 2 more (than I tend to when I make a big jug of tea in western way) teaspoons of a low class chineese sencha and I put it to the fridge for 8 - 12 hours (it was some time ago, I'm not sure by now). I've done this with green tea with jasmin flowers too and the result was equaly unsatisfying. But it worked with rooibos - no suprise there :)
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Hi there, I will try to answer your question - but I got more knowledge in Japanese green tea. The tea might have a bit more of bitterness - lower quality teas contain in general a bit more catechins and are thus a bit more bitter.
You can use 3-5 grams as the tea gives normally a good flavour. The best teas to coldbrew are still shaded teas as theannine is the « sweet » taste component and are thus giving the water a mellow and nice taste.
That's probably why I don't usually like green tea because I am brewing it wrong. I usually boil the water to 80 degree C but I still don't really enjoy it, even though I really want to like it. I will try your second method and see if that is more to my liking.
I hope he won that game on his phone. . .
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Darjeeling tea pls!!!
Poor tea all over my phone lol
@0:59 All the iced tea is in the southern USA. Come visit us, and you will have no shortage of iced tea anywhere. Iced tea is the backbone of our barbecue culture
you'd look fun with ore facial hair i'd love that
why always looking into his mobile ?.. is that his style or he is much busy with other things and wasting his time for this vedio
I think he controls the focus on his camera with his phone. Like when he zooms in on a tea, he uses his phone to focus in on it. Some people don't like auto- focus on their camera.