Herbal Ice Tea

I love ice tea in my tea maker  Take 5 bags of tea and put in mr tea let it brew add stevia then add water when done for a gallon of ice tea.    I have been starting to grow some herbs and was thinking I should learn to make my own ice tea but I see most people talk about making hot herbal teas     Does anybody have good herbal tea that is good as ice tea rather than hot    I would like one that I can put in my tea maker but sun tea would work as well

I usually drink cold lemon balm tea.   My favorite tea is yerba mate, though I have not tried pouring it over ice.  I see no reason it would not still be just as good over ice.

Now days almost all herbal tea can be purchased in tea bags to use in your ice tea brewer.

You have missed out on some great posts about herbal ice tea, here are a couple:



Hibiscus Tea



Favorite-Iced-Tea

Anne Miller wrote:I usually drink cold lemon balm tea.   My favorite tea is yerba mate, though I have not tried pouring it over ice.  I see no reason it would not still be just as good over ice.

Now days almost all herbal tea can be purchased in tea bags to use in your ice tea brewer.

You have missed out on some great posts about herbal ice tea, here are a couple:

Hibiscus Tea



Favorite-Iced-Tea

thank you very much I will look at those    They look good

we make all our tea in an iced version in the summer here in Brazil! My favorites are mint, lemon grass, hibiscus with dried apples, black tea with mint, and chamomile. We also have a local blend called "7 herbs" that has some nice bitter and digestive components.
Making iced tea is one of my early morning tasks- brew it hot (one strong cup), let it cool until it's lukewarm, strain and pour into a glass bottle, fill up the rest with water and chuck it in the fridge. We don't drink juice or other soft drinks, but we are never lacking something wonderful to drink on a hot day.

(I also drink yerba mate cold, but the paraguayan way- the loose herb in a cow's horn with a metal straw. You dump cold water over it, and it's refreshing.)

Hibiscus tea is my absolute favorite herbal iced tea. It's also called Jamaica in latino markets, where it is very reasonably priced. I drink probably a half gallon a day. It's also good for lowering blood pressure, don't through away your pills, if needed but it helps.

I also love red hibiscus tea, I do live in Mexico after all. This type of hibiscus has a very small flower, if you live where there's no frost you can grow it though it loves hot humid weather. Hibiscus is particularly good with spearmint (hierba buena)  I steep mine in the sun as many people say boiling/simmering destroys the nutrients.
I have drunk almost every kind of herbal tea cold and I suggest you experiment to see what you like. I particularly like to use herbs to flavor the normal back sun tea that is very common in the central part of the US.

Unless I'm drinking it for a cold or sore throat, I prefer most of my herbal teas to be cold. Oatstraw with marshmallow root and lemon balm is one of my favorites, though I usually do a long overnight steep for that one. Rosemary Gladstar has written recipes for some of my favorite blends. My favorite garden herbs (zone 7b) for tea are passionflower, tulsi, rose of Sharon, mint, lemon balm, milky oats, and chamomile.