Celebrate National Iced Tea Day with a drink of your favorite type of tea!
My favorite iced tea is a blend. I use a coffee maker to brew it. Before that I had an iced tea maker, but it finally died, and I’ve just never got a new one. They work well however!
Anyway, here’s what I use for my favorite iced tea:
- 2 tablespoons, more or less, of loose leaf yerba mate
- 1 family sized bag of green tea
- 1 family sized bag of black tea
- 1 Mint Mate tea bag
- 1 Orange Blossom Mate tea bag
I tear open all the tea bags and pour the loose tea into the coffee filter, add filtered water, then let it brew. And I prefer decaffeinated tea, but that’s a matter of personal perference. Sometimes I change it up and use different flavored bags of tea for the last two.
I buy my yerba mate tea from Guayaki, and buy a big 5-poung bag of San Mateo Air Dried Mate along with half pound bags of the Orange Blossom Mate and a bag of mint mate.
After I fill a small canister with the San Mateo Mate, I put the rest in the freezer. A 5-pound bag lasts a LONG time, even though I brew a new batch almost every day!
I use liquid stevia to sweeten each glass full of tea before I drink it. Since yerba mate, green and black teas have healthful properties, this is a great beverage both taste wise and health-wise.
So enjoy a glass or two of iced tea today!
