Sep 10th, 2021
Tea has always been steeped hot, and if you want an iced tea, you simply add ice cubes or let it cool down in the fridge. Cold brew iced tea doesn’t work this way. Instead, you steep the tea in cold water.
Now the new cold-brewed tea takes 3-5 minutes to make soup. Amino acids, free catechins, flavonoids, flavonoid glycosides, anthocyanins, sugars and other substances in tea have a faster dissolution rate at low temperature, while ester catechins, caffeine and other substances with bitter taste have a slower dissolution rate at low temperature.
Sweetening your cold brew should be seen as a last resort. If you pick the right teas, a cold brew tea can taste naturally sweet. If it’s still not sweet enough, then the best option would be to use dried fruits. The best options are:
If sweetness isn’t the problem, but aroma, then dried flowers such as chrysanthemum tea or osmanthus flowers are great ingredients!