How many family tea bags for a gallon of tea

Iced Tea Concentrate is hands down the easiest way to have a cold pitcher of tea ready at all times. Mix it up with different flavor combos, infuse with fresh fruit and herbs, or add in flavored syrups. Looking for a way to serve homemade iced tea at your next party, shower, rehearsal dinner, picnic, or BBQ? Look no further!

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• 🥇 Why it’s great!
• 🌿 Ingredients
• 🫖 How to make tea concentrate
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For a crowd
• 🍋 Variations
• 🙋 Questions & Answers
• 📖 More recipes for a crowd
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• 📋 Recipe
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Growing up my parents had iced tea in the fridge at all times. Usually it was my sister’s job to keep a pitcher filled. At that time we boiled water on the stove and steeped the tea. Then you had to pour the hot tea into a pitcher and wait for it to cool. Too bad she didn’t know about this make-ahead hack back in the day!

Making iced tea concentrate instead of just a gallon of tea is simple, yet TOTALLY life changing. We go through about a gallon of tea every day or two. With this little trick I am able to have 3 gallons worth of tea concentrate in the fridge ready and waiting.

If you’re more of a lemonade person (or an Arnold Palmer person), try this homemade lemonade concentrate recipe!

🥇 Why it’s great!

• It’s EASY… easier than you can even imagine. Just take a look at the instructions and you’ll see what I mean.
• This is the best way to serve tea to a crowd. It’s easy on the wallet, make-ahead friendly, and simple to store enough for large quantities.
• It’s economical (much cheaper than buying juice, soda, or other drinks). Plus it’s a much healthier alternative to most beverages at stores. I can feel good about having this tea in the fridge all week for the family.

🌿 Ingredients

You only need 2 ingredients to make this recipe. Water and tea bags – that’s it! You can use black tea, fruit tea, or green tea.

🫖 How to make tea concentrate

There are a two ways to make tea concentrate successfully. My favorite method is using the sun to do the steeping. Just fill a glass of jar with water, add your tea bags, and screw on the lid. Then pop it in the sun for the next 4-6 hours. Once you bring in the jars, remove the lids and take out the tea bags. I give them a gentle squeeze to get the extra liquid out. When you’re ready to turn the concentrate into tea, just add 14 cups of water.

Another option is to do this in the house. Heat the water on the stove or in the microwave until hot but not boiling. Then place the tea bags in the water for an hour or two. Once they’ve steeped for awhile, remove the bags and give them a gentle squeeze. Pour the concentrate into a glass jar, screw on the lid, and store in the fridge.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For a crowd

Tea concentrate is great for serving iced tea to a crowd. It’s economical, easy, and can be dressed up or down depending on how you serve it. In the picture below you can see how we used the iced tea concentrate at my niece’s bridal shower. It is in the jar on the left. The idea was to do a tea party, but since summers here in the desert are 110º+, we opted to have iced tea as one of the options. To the left of the iced tea you can see bottles of flavored syrup that we dressed up for adding into the tea. It was a hit!

🍋 Variations

Several years ago I learned a secret for great tea at a delicious Mexican restaurant near our family’s summer vacation spot. They put in one family sized black tea bag along with the green tea and fruit tea bags. Before this I was trying to make fruit flavored iced tea with only green tea and fruit tea. It just wasn’t quite right. The black tea bag adds the perfect touch.

Moral of the story: This recipe is incredibly flexible. Definitely feel free to mix it up and find the flavor and combinations that you like best. Here are our general recommendations for flavor profiles:

• Black Tea: 4 family sized black tea bags or 12 single sized black tea bags
• Green Tea: 12 single sized green tea bags
• Fruit Flavored Tea: 2 family sized black tea bags (or 6 single sized black tea bags) + 4 individual sized green tea bags + 2 single sized fruit flavored tea bags
  • Favorite fruit flavors: Cranberry pomegranate, Wild Berry Zinger, Citrus Sunrise

**Keep in mind that 1 family sized tea bag=3 single size tea bags**

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