If you love to experiment with tea-based bevvies, or even if you just wish you could always have your fave blend at the ready, making a concentrate may be the best trick you can learn when it comes to tea.
It’s simple, really. When making a concentrate, the aim to increase the ratio of tea to water without changing other factors, like water temperature or steeping time. This means you still get juuust the right flavour and it goes a lot further!
Since this is a more general recipe for tea concentrate, we’ve kept it pretty open, since different kinds of tea call for different modes of preparation. That said, we recommend a water temperature and steeping time for each and every one of our teas!
ingredients:
Loose leaf tea
Water
Sweetener (optional—we recommend agave)
recipe:
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Measure your tea. For most of our loose leaf teas, we suggest 3 Perfect Spoons (7 ½ tsp) in 120 ml (4 oz) of water per serving. For 4 servings, you can scale up to 12 Perfect Spoons (30 tsp, or 10 tbsp) in 475 ml (16 oz) of water.
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Add the tea to your steeper or French press, then top with hot water. Pro tip: most tea tastes best when it’s steeped in water that’s a little cooler than boiling. Check out the water temperature we suggest, or when in doubt, a good rule of thumb is to leave it for ~5 min after it boils.
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Add your sweetener at this step if you’re using any! You can sweeten to taste—a good starting point is about 1 tsp per serving.
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Leave your tea to steep. We always recommend a length of time for our teas, but at the end of the day, it’s all about what makes you happy! After all, it’s your cup of tea ;)
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Strain your tea. And that’s it! Feel free to use it as a tasty bevvie base or store it in the fridge to dilute when you’re craving a cuppa (kept in an airtight container, it should keep for about 5 days).
