Why & How to Cold Brew Tea at Home.
Strong coffee or too much coffee with all this staying at home may not be the best combination for a healthy day and clear head. If you still want a refreshing caffeinated beverage, try out a cold brew tea which you can easily make at home.
Why Cold Brew
Iced tea and cold brew tea are both cool, refreshing ways to drink tea. With iced tea, you would first steep the tea in hot, building water. Boiling water extracts a greater amount of tannins which makes the tea bitter. When chilled, the bitterness only grows stronger.
With cold brewing, tannins are at bay with the slower process; as a result, the taste of the tea is far less bitter, smoother, cleaner tasting, and naturally sweeter. Even if the tea is brewed for hours, the caffeine is almost half less than coffee.
You can cold brew any tea – white, green, black, oolong, herbal, infused, etc. The only difficult part is time. Tip: cold brewing is best done at night so the infusion happens overnight and it’s ready in the morning.
How to Cold Brew at Home
All you need is a glass pitcher (or Cold Brew Pitcher), loose-leaf tea or whole tea bags, and drinking water.
For every 1 teaspoon of loose-leaf tea or 1 tea bag, pour in 6 to 8 ounces of water (less water means a stronger tea flavor). For white or green tea, cold brew for 6 to 12 hours (longer time means a stronger tea flavor), and for black or oolong tea cold brew for 8 to 12 hours.
Once time has passed, strain the loose-leaf tea with a fine mesh strainer or simply pull out the tea bags. Then you’re ready to drink! Enjoy for 3 to 5 days, if it lasts that long.
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