How to Make Sun Tea

In the summer time I love a good sun tea recipe. It's my favorite thing to drink, and very cost effective since it's basically just tea bags and water. It's also very easy to learn how to make sun tea, since all you do is just fill up a clear jug and set it out into the sun. No cooking or boiling involved!

Please note the instructions for how to make sun tea are for how I personally make it. It's not a southern recipe, nor is it a sweet tea. It's just a basic, non-sweet Midwest verson of a favorite summer drink. If you have a southern sweet tea recipe you'd like to send us, please feel free to do so!

Sun Tea Recipe

Wanting to know how to make sun tea in it's most basic form? Start with this easy sun tea recipe:

Sun Tea container/jar
Water
3-4 bags of "regular" tea (green tea, orange tea, etc)

Instructions:
Set out in sun for 2-3 hours, or longer for stronger tea. It gets plenty strong in 2 hours with 4 bags of tea. We normally set ours out with 3 bags of tea for 2-3hours (or after a few hours when we realise we've forgotten about the sun tea sitting outside!)

Usually a sun tea recipe is pulled out at the beginning of the summer when the days are sunny and hot, but those who know how to make sun tea know it can be done on any warm or sunny day. It doesn't always have to be hot, or even sunny. Just as long as it's one of the two you will be fine. If you are wanting tea on a cooler day, hot tea usually works better and is more liked when it's cold.

Additional Sun Tea Recipe Ingredients

If you are wanting to get a more involved in how to make sun tea in different flavors, there's a real easy sun tea recipe that doesn't use unnatural additives. Instead of 3 regular tea bags like in the sun tea recipe above, add just 2. Your 3rd tea bag can be in any flavor you wish. We've grown fond of Gabby Goodies "Cherry Vanilla" and use it almost every time we make tea (which is about every other day in the summer!).

Some other flavors to try with your sun tea recipe:

Cherry Vanilla
Wild Strawberry
Raspberry
Vanilla
Other strong blends

Here's where you can get creative in your sun tea recipe! You can also use 3 flavored tea bags, but these are generally higher priced than normal tea and the flavor still comes through a bit just using one flavored and 2 regular. If you are a sun tea recipe fan, just having a hint of another flavor is all you should need.

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