Iced Teas

Iced teas are fun and easy to make! You can drink the fruity teas as they are or jazz them up with juices, fruit or your favourite tipple.

Iced teas can be made using all teas, from black to green or herbal and fruit. To make iced teas, simply brew them, allow them to cool, and mix with any other complementary ingredients that take your fancy. It’s as simple as that. Just be mindful of dilution. Just like brewing hot tea, time and temperature are key to achieving the perfect iced tea.

 

Hydrating with Tea

Iced teas are perfect for hydration and help distribute water to the body. Hydration is a crucial part of health and wellbeing and is hugely important. Keeping our water levels up helps maintain body temperature, lubricates our joints, prevents infections, delivers nutrients to cells and improves our quality of sleep and mood. Tea is a low-caffeine drink, so the diuretic effect is minimal. On the whole, tea gives your body much more water than it causes your body to lose (due to caffeine), so get drinking tea and get hydrated! 

 

Fun with Tea

We also like having fun with teas, and this summer, we’ve created two exciting iced tea cocktails to share with friends and family. These are boozy concoctions, so if you’re abstaining, simply leave out the alcohol. We’ve picked two cracking loose-leaf fruit & herb teas that boast lots of exciting flavours. Summery cherries and spiced oranges feature to create two of this season’s most enticing iced teas!

 

Cherry Dreams – Fruit Tea Infusion

Cherry Dreams is a really fruity infusion! With deep cherry flavours and a hint of mint, this refreshing tea contains 20% cherry pieces and elderberries, blueberries, rosehip, elderflowers, blackberry leaves and cranberry.

To counteract the sweetness of the cherries, mint is perfectly blended to lift the sweetness to create a refreshing fruit infusion.

Here’s a naughty but nice gin-infused iced tea recipe to treat your loved ones to.

 

Cherry Twirl Gin Iced Tea Cocktail

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 2 heaped teaspoons Cherry Dreams loose-leaf tea
• 150ml fresh boiled water
• 100g sugar
• Ice cubes
• 50ml gin per serving
• 150ml Tonic water
• Lime wedges to garnish

 

Method

• Brew the Cherry Dreams tea in the boiled water for 8-10 minutes
• Mix the tea with the sugar in a pan over a low heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves
• Put the cherry sugar syrup into the fridge to cool
• Fill a tall glass with ice and add the gin
• Add 30ml of the cooled cherry sugar syrup
• Top up with the tonic water and stir
• Finish with lime wedges

 

 

Ginger Orange Cinnamon Fruit & Herb Infusion

Our Ginger Orange Cinnamon fruit & herb infusion is a tea bursting with juiciness and aroma.

This fruit tea is refreshing, zingy, and caffeine-free, containing dried apple, hibiscus, rooibos, candied pineapple, ginger, cinnamon, and orange. Perfect hot, chilled or with a hint of vodka to make a rather unique cocktail.

 

Ginger Orange Cinnamon Iced Tea Cocktail

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 3 heaped teaspoons Ginger Orange Cinnamon loose leaf tea
• 200ml fresh boiled water
• Ice cubes
• 50ml vodka per serving
• 150ml Ginger Ale
• 2 oranges, juiced, plus wedges for serving
• Honey to taste

 

Method

• Brew the Ginger Orange Cinnamon tea in the boiled water for 10-12 mins
• After your tea is brewed, add 2 cups of ice to cool it down
• Pour into your serving jug
• Fill a tall glass with ice and add the gin
• Add the orange juice, vodka and ginger ale
• Serve over ice and finish with orange wedges to garnish

 

Here are a few more delicious fruit & herbal teas to turn into iced teas, with or without the alcohol. 

 

Teavelope Copa Cabana Organic Tea Bags

Our organic Copa Cabana tea is a sweet-scented tropical fruit tea infusion that will take you on an exotic journey to Copacabana. The fruitiness of the rosehip, apples, hibiscus, orange and blackberry are expertly blended to create a fruity tea you’ll love.

Each tea bag is individually wrapped in an aroma protection sachet for perfect freshness. We recommend brewing for 8 - 10 minutes.  

 

Wild Fruits Organic Loose Leaf Tea

Our organic Wild Fruits tea is a summer berry infusion of delicious red fruits. The hibiscus, rosehip, apple, mixed berry leaves, liquorice and raspberry pieces offer a hybrid of tartness thanks to the hibiscus and a summery sweetness of the berries. 

 

 

Passion Fruit Organic Loose Leaf Tea

Our organic Passion Fruit tea is a fresh and fascinating fruit tea infusion. It's exotic, herbaceous, and fruity, containing olive leaves, Lemongrass, apple, mango pieces, papaya, passionflower, and marigold petals.

 

Rhubarb Cream Loose-Leaf Tea

A heavenly fruity and fresh rhubarb blend tea rounded off with the delicate sweetness of real bourbon vanilla.

The creamy and sweet rhubarb tea infusion contains rhubarb and apple pieces, hibiscus, rosehip peel, pineapple, mango and papaya bits, with fragrant marigold blossoms.

 

Red Fruit Pudding Loose Leaf Tea

Red Fruit Pudding tea will help you to hydrate with full flavour. Ideal for hot or cold brewing, the blend contains real elderberries, hibiscus, currants, blackcurrants and blueberries. The juicy fruit tea infusion is seriously good and reminiscent of homegrown berry compote.

 

Posted by cup of tea admin
14th July 2021

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