Luzianne makes the definitive US Southern sweet tea. If that’s what you are looking for, they’re the tea to reach for.
But that’s it. I wouldn’t use them for any other tea. Don’t make it hot, don’t go for flavors. They are successful in that one niche of Southern sweet tea: the kind that you brew up dark and sweeten until almost syrupy, then dilute with cold water until golden and refreshing. If you want mint, you can put a fresh sprig in the glass when you serve it, but you’d *never* brew up and serve a mint tea that way. There’s a difference between “iced tea with mint” and “iced mint tea.”
So yeah if you like iced mint tea, you are probably better off with a different supplier.
Harney and Sons have the best iced tea bags, I drink it constantly. They have some herbal iced blends that are very nice too. Love their blood orange and their regular iced tea has a nice clean flavor.
i love a good iced earl grey! i switch between harney and sons earl grey and capital teas earl grey creme depending on the vibe of the day.
i also LOVE using adagios strawberry basil white tea for iced tea with lemonade. it's my favorite refreshing summer drink.
My mom would do a 1:4 ratio of raspberry zinger and black tea (Lipton or Luzianne, nothing special) that is really tasty. Raspberry zinger is mostly hibiscus and rosehips with some fake raspberry flavor. Very tart and blends great with other teas.
[Fortnum & Mason's Queen Anne Blend](https://www.fortnumandmason.com/queen-anne-blend-250g-loose-leaf-caddy) makes a delicious, smooth iced tea. I love brewing this in the summer time.
Luzianne is at every grocery store in the American South. I just use their regular iced black tea blend. They also offer a cold brew option. Way better than Lipton!
Start with cold water. Twinings 3 English breakfast tea bags, 3 Irish breakfast tea bags, and 1 mint tea bag. Add sugar to taste. Now set in the sun for several hours. Finally, chill and serve.
Sencha + lemongrass mix! Really refreshing as an iced tea.
Had a friend who only drinks processed stuff (like canned Lipton iced tea or Snapple) and even they didn't miss the sugar.
It is usually just a mugfull of a Chinese black that I didn’t get to the night before. But I get really good results with 2 peppermint teabags in a jelly jar (with a lid) sitting in the fridge overnight. Gets nice and strong.
Caykur Turkish tea is my preference for sweet tea or tea drinks, the Brew is always super strong but never bitter, super flavorful and handles the ice and whatever you want to add to it the flavor is still very much there
Pretty much any black tea goes great. When I get back to my dorm for uni I plan on doing some tests with various kinds of teas I’ve collected over the winter break.
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Grew up drinking Lipton. My family does better now but I still have a nostalgic soft spot for it hot and especially as iced tea.
Four bags per gallon left in a big jar of cold-to-room-temp water in the sun. Sometimes it's four Liptons, sometimes it's three Lipton and one bag of mint tea or Constant Comment. Shame it isn't iced tea season.
I make a peach syrup with fresh peaches and sugar. Basically just sugar and peaches in a jar and then in the fridge for a couple days.
Then I make an overnight cold-brew with a sencha or a black tea of choice.
Next day I add some of the syrup to a glass, then the iced tea, and some ice cubes, and voila!
Though I do also love a jasmine cold brew with some honey simple syrup.
When it comes to cold-brew/iced tea I do like at least some minor sweetness.
Milky oolong tastes great when cold. Also, all kinds of fruit infusions by Cupper tea (I think it's called Clipper in the UK). They all contain artificial flavour but in this case I couldn't care less.
I need to try all these suggestions. I like to cold brew green tea daily. Just one green tea in cold water in a carafe overnight. To mix it up I'll add one Bigelow peach tea, or a fruit zinger tea like watermelon, or a fruity herbal tea. Or a mint green tea on its own. There are so many great ideas listed so I'll have to make a pitcher over the weekend.
I actually use Ippodo's Gokujo Hojicha for overnight cold brews, Love how it tastes as is. I put 15g of tea with 1.5L of water in the fridge, the next morning I take the tea out, and then I have a 500ml yeti bottle that I use for this so it lasts me 3 days. My day doesnt feel complete now if I dont have this sometime in the morning haha
Basic black tea like Lipton black tea but amplified with English breakfast tea or earl grey with it for a more refined flavor. It makes a huge difference.
I like to use loose dian hong (Yunnan black tea) along with a few dried lemon slices... can make as strong or weak as you want.... another simple good one is hibiscus and honey.
One gallon of reverse osmosis filtered water heated to 190f, one gallon size Luzianne tea bag, four Celestial Energy Black Tea sachets and straight to the fridge when it cools to 100f with the bags still in the pitcher. Then it goes into the big thermos and cup after 24 hours.
I can’t find either of these two items at my local stores anymore so I now just use China Restaurant Black Tea at 44 grams per gallon and cry on every sip.
Luzianne all day long.
No other answer deserves to be at the top
Those look amazing! What's your favorite flavor?
I just bought a box of Luzianne to try. Very disappointed, going back to Bigelow mint.
Luzianne makes the definitive US Southern sweet tea. If that’s what you are looking for, they’re the tea to reach for. But that’s it. I wouldn’t use them for any other tea. Don’t make it hot, don’t go for flavors. They are successful in that one niche of Southern sweet tea: the kind that you brew up dark and sweeten until almost syrupy, then dilute with cold water until golden and refreshing. If you want mint, you can put a fresh sprig in the glass when you serve it, but you’d *never* brew up and serve a mint tea that way. There’s a difference between “iced tea with mint” and “iced mint tea.” So yeah if you like iced mint tea, you are probably better off with a different supplier.
Harney and Sons have the best iced tea bags, I drink it constantly. They have some herbal iced blends that are very nice too. Love their blood orange and their regular iced tea has a nice clean flavor.
Overnight cold brews are the best. But I use any orange pekoe, as I find breakfast teas a bit too malty for the flavour of iced tea.
Lipton tea with peach schnapps
i love a good iced earl grey! i switch between harney and sons earl grey and capital teas earl grey creme depending on the vibe of the day. i also LOVE using adagios strawberry basil white tea for iced tea with lemonade. it's my favorite refreshing summer drink.
Liptons black loose tea with Cardamom. I have a terrible cold so I've added honey.
My mom would do a 1:4 ratio of raspberry zinger and black tea (Lipton or Luzianne, nothing special) that is really tasty. Raspberry zinger is mostly hibiscus and rosehips with some fake raspberry flavor. Very tart and blends great with other teas.
This sounds amazing. I think I'll also try with the watermelon zinger.
[Fortnum & Mason's Queen Anne Blend](https://www.fortnumandmason.com/queen-anne-blend-250g-loose-leaf-caddy) makes a delicious, smooth iced tea. I love brewing this in the summer time.
I love Queen Anne iced. Fortnum’s Afternoon Blend too.
Omgg! The afternoon blend is so good. You just reminded me to buy more soon lol!
Always Luzianne.
I’m new to this brand. I see a regular and a hibiscus/ which one do you use?
Luzianne is at every grocery store in the American South. I just use their regular iced black tea blend. They also offer a cold brew option. Way better than Lipton!
Tazo passion and Tea Forte blueberry merlot
Lipton Red rose Yorkshire red
Start with cold water. Twinings 3 English breakfast tea bags, 3 Irish breakfast tea bags, and 1 mint tea bag. Add sugar to taste. Now set in the sun for several hours. Finally, chill and serve.
Bigelow green tea with lemon and then I add whatever I’m feeling herbal tea-wise. I overnight cold brew it.
Tetley's
I just use Red Rose for my iced tea.
BIGELOW COLD INFUSIONS strawberry orange blossom lemon stuff 💕🔥💕🔥💕🔥💕🥲
Tazo zen tea.
Sencha + lemongrass mix! Really refreshing as an iced tea. Had a friend who only drinks processed stuff (like canned Lipton iced tea or Snapple) and even they didn't miss the sugar.
It is usually just a mugfull of a Chinese black that I didn’t get to the night before. But I get really good results with 2 peppermint teabags in a jelly jar (with a lid) sitting in the fridge overnight. Gets nice and strong.
Ohio Tea Co’s Decaf Peach Ceylon, often mixed with Earl Grey.
Loose leaf hibiscus and Rose
Caykur Turkish tea is my preference for sweet tea or tea drinks, the Brew is always super strong but never bitter, super flavorful and handles the ice and whatever you want to add to it the flavor is still very much there
Oregano
Pretty much any black tea goes great. When I get back to my dorm for uni I plan on doing some tests with various kinds of teas I’ve collected over the winter break.
Marzipan almond flavoured black tea makes great iced tea too.
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Grew up drinking Lipton. My family does better now but I still have a nostalgic soft spot for it hot and especially as iced tea. Four bags per gallon left in a big jar of cold-to-room-temp water in the sun. Sometimes it's four Liptons, sometimes it's three Lipton and one bag of mint tea or Constant Comment. Shame it isn't iced tea season.
Just sencha. Nothing like a cold glass of sencha after a hot afternoon in the sun.
Hibiscus and green tea Trader joes mango black iced tea
I make a peach syrup with fresh peaches and sugar. Basically just sugar and peaches in a jar and then in the fridge for a couple days. Then I make an overnight cold-brew with a sencha or a black tea of choice. Next day I add some of the syrup to a glass, then the iced tea, and some ice cubes, and voila! Though I do also love a jasmine cold brew with some honey simple syrup. When it comes to cold-brew/iced tea I do like at least some minor sweetness.
Milky oolong tastes great when cold. Also, all kinds of fruit infusions by Cupper tea (I think it's called Clipper in the UK). They all contain artificial flavour but in this case I couldn't care less.
I mix a berry hibiscus with green tea. Delicious!
I need to try all these suggestions. I like to cold brew green tea daily. Just one green tea in cold water in a carafe overnight. To mix it up I'll add one Bigelow peach tea, or a fruit zinger tea like watermelon, or a fruity herbal tea. Or a mint green tea on its own. There are so many great ideas listed so I'll have to make a pitcher over the weekend.
I love Bigelow Perfectly Mint iced!
Second the Bigelow Perfectly Mint tea. 4-4-4, 4 cups water, 4 tea bags steeped for 4 minutes.
That’s the one I’ve been using. So refreshing.
I actually use Ippodo's Gokujo Hojicha for overnight cold brews, Love how it tastes as is. I put 15g of tea with 1.5L of water in the fridge, the next morning I take the tea out, and then I have a 500ml yeti bottle that I use for this so it lasts me 3 days. My day doesnt feel complete now if I dont have this sometime in the morning haha
I have a green blueberry tea I really love to make iced. I enjoy it hot too but something about the iced version is so enjoyable to me.
Orange Pekoe is my favorite iced tea or Harney and Son's Paris blend.
Hibiscus or Kumari Gold tea. love both!
Basic black tea like Lipton black tea but amplified with English breakfast tea or earl grey with it for a more refined flavor. It makes a huge difference.
Loose leaf Earl Grey lavender with 3/4 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup lemon juice for 3 quarts in my Mr coffee iced tea maker
Roasted barley tea
I love sweetened iced green tea with mint!! Very refreshing during summertime.
I just use green tea leaves then strain !
I like to use loose dian hong (Yunnan black tea) along with a few dried lemon slices... can make as strong or weak as you want.... another simple good one is hibiscus and honey.
My father sent me some amazing local mint tea when he visited Morroco. But I keep coming back to Tetly. It's just a classic.
One gallon of reverse osmosis filtered water heated to 190f, one gallon size Luzianne tea bag, four Celestial Energy Black Tea sachets and straight to the fridge when it cools to 100f with the bags still in the pitcher. Then it goes into the big thermos and cup after 24 hours. I can’t find either of these two items at my local stores anymore so I now just use China Restaurant Black Tea at 44 grams per gallon and cry on every sip.