How to Cold Brew Tea 

What a beautiful spot to go exploring. There is something very magical about Mermejita beach.

In Japan we would pour cold water over unbrewed leaves and keep the bottle in the refrigerator overnight. Other times we would leave tea in a glass with some ice cubes and drink it as soon as they melted - the flavor is surprisingly strong! Both methods make a nice additive-free ice tea for hot summer days. It worked best with roasted teas like houjicha or black tea, in my opinion.

This channel is a hidden gem. :) I am glad I found it.

Thank you so much! This is very informative and I've been wondering how to do this!

Your passion is contagious, thank you

Love your videos, the view on the one was absolutely beautiful! thanks for the tips 🪅

I wish I could give you a standing ovation, you're videos are some of the best content on RU-vid I've found. Tea people a clever! I brewed some white needles a few times, I'm going to toss them in a glass while I run to the store. It's such a subtle, delicate white that I want to see how it does at cool brew

Your channel is such a gift!! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

You are an outstanding video presenter! I watched the whole video and I didn't even know I was interested in cold brewing. You do a great job.

That's a genius idea. Thanks for sharing that.

Hey Don Mei, you are the coolest ever! So appreciate you and your lovely videos! Thank you !

Thank you sooo much Don for sharing what all you know about your pasion TEA .🍵 I haved learned so much !!!! And know I have much More to learn 🙏🏻GOD Bless 🙏🏻

very clear and informative, thank you.

glad you enjoyed Oaxaca, didn't get the chance to go to Mazunte, but Oaxaca definitely is worth visiting.

Great video. Im gonna have a tea party soon with my friends where we only will drink tea So I will experiment with this!

never got in to tea brewing. just been using the plan old tea bags. I found your channel about 2 weeks ago now here is my Frist brew did a breakfast tea Blend. finest Assam China black tea with a hint of bergamot and citrus aroma. It was so nice and refreshing on a summer's afternoon was pretty nice hot as well.

I like your method best from others I've examined, and you explained everything very well. Thank you. I also like your hot water first method, because I read a book by a Chinese chef, who explained that it takes hot water to release the healthy qualities of tea leaves (if one is interested in them for that, and I am). In example, matcha desserts are delicious, they explained, but unless a little hot water was used to brew it a but first, then all we're getting primarily is flavor.

I tried this today and it was delicious. I had a mint tea for breakfast, pomegranate tea with my lunch, and chamomile tea with my dinner. I hate hot or luke warm drinks. I have found something I'm in love with, that's low in calories and the taste is so refreshing. My teas have no caffeine.

This looks great. I really have to give this a try during the very hot months ahead. Last year. I would brew a pot the night before then put it in the icebox to take in a thermos the next day. This looks like it will work much better.

When I brew tea, I'm not sure what to do with the leafs overnight (I want to keep them to brew them again). I watched your video about different ways of storing leafs between brews and it was informative. But I think this is another awesome idea to reuse those leafs ! Brew them overnight in a fridge :) Thanks for that video !

Thank you for another informative video! beside the Ruby black and green teas you enjoyed what other black teas can you recommend for cold brewing? What about a white fuding shou mei? Thanks again!

i am 14 years old and my dad has gotten me hooked on tea along with my British grandmother. this channel has showed me how to brew by myself. I very much like it because coffe is bad for a person my age but tea is very beneficial

this is really smart wow

FUNtastic ,loved all the TEArrific tea advice ,many thumbs up here,oh i see it's TEA Time. Taa Taa and TEA TEA to ally Tea drinkers everywhere !!!!

I've been learning so much from your videos. We always just use the tea bags for cold-brewing, but I'm definitely trying this with the packages of green teas friends have been giving me (because they don't know what to do with it, and they know I like tea). This video answered some questions I've been thinking about. Thank you :)

Hi Don, thank you for this video, it gives me something to experiment with. I have to ask, do you think teas like silver needle, which are only buds, are good for cold brew?

Thanks!

Great video! Quick question, once you finished the first batch of cold brewed tea, you just poured in more cold water and waited for another hour to get the second batch? Thanks!

Please, do more videos on cold brew tea.

04:00 About bacteria growth: I heard of people in africa using regular transparent PET bottles, filling them with water from their well and leaving them out in the sun on their rooftops. The sun with it's intense light (especially UV) will cause the bacteria to die off. So if you leave the bottle in intense sunlight for long enough it would be fine after all.

I'd like an opinion on which of your teas are suitable for cold brewing. I plan to order from you soon :)

Hi Don, one question, what do you think about cold drip tea? Do they use grinded leafs?

How do you get the tea into that bottle? Seems like a small diameter bottle to put loose leaf tea in.

So can you use regular tea for cold brewing or does it have to be a cold brew tea?

Can you over brew cold brew?? Say if was making a jug to keep in the fridge!? Thanks!

I personally like to use my silver niddle white tea to cold brew, just because it's so bloody expensive, that it would be a shame to throw it away after one time, glad to hear that my technique (of brewing cold after hot) is not unique, but i assume that some people will say that using White tea for that is blasphemy. Anyway, great content here, you got a subscriber!

How long can the leaves stay in the bottle?

How long do you brew leaves in hot water

Is it also healthy to just put a tea bag in a bottle, shake it for a while and then drink it?

As usual one video of yours produces many questions for me that i truly hope to hear back from you on. what is a good rule of thumb for converting hot brew methods into cold ones? What are signs or tastes to know which direction to adjust the brew method? Is there a con or a reason for why you don't just hot brew the tea and then allow it to cool? If you begin brewing cold would you recommend brewing the same batch hot again or just leave it for cold brew? For teas that recommend one steep session per tea blend what do you recommend for that when brewing hot first and then brewing cold? How would you adjust your brew technique if you were going to brew a batch cold and didn't have filtered bottle but instead strained the leaves out into another cup. Would you let them air dry through every time or would you just fill more cold water immediately again? how does cold brewing affect the number of steeps a tea can have and once again how do you know when the limit has been reached? Lastly when brewing cold what is the longest time you recommend (for all tea types) that you would leaves left in cold water before you remove them if it's not going to be drank right away?

Would you recommend a little ice to keep it cold as your walking around, or is that a no-no for the brewing process?

I read that it's not advisable to drink overnight long jing teas.. Are there any other teas which may not be suitable for cold brew?

Mi Mexico Lindó 💗 I wonder what tea pairing would complement a bowl of a Oaxacan mole? 🤔

Wow, I've been using too much tea all this time! So the same as Western? When you have your morning cup to sterilize the leave, can you do Western or does it have to be gong fu? I ask because I can only do Western right now. Also, can I sterilize the leaves with hot water and then quickly quench the mix with cold if I'm in a hurry? You guys are so awesome and I learn something new with each video. Keep it up!

Hi Don, great video as always! Got a question though - when sou say you brew the tea before coldbrewing, do you refer to brewing it only one or two times or would you brew it like normal and instead of throwing it away afterwards you put it into the cold water? Cheers!

Hey thanks for the video! One question though: Do you have the same results when you brew your tea with hot water for a shorter time and afterwords put it in the fridge to cool down? Maybe it is faster that way. Or is there a difference in the taste then?

ok, what if i cold brew my tea slowly in the fridge over night for consumption in the next day, and in the next day i feel the liquid is a bit too cold to drink straight away, can I heat it up in a microwave oven? or just leave it in room temperature for an hour or two

kind of eyeballing it, but it looks like the amount of leaf is similar to gongfu brewing in a typical gaiwan, but is similar to western in the bold brew bottle? right? I feel as if doing a Western brew first will extract too much in the first brew to get a good cold brew afterwards.

Could you boil your tea round one then make the sun tea to avoid/reduce bacteria? Our family loves sun tea in the summer - just totally unaware of possible bacteria issues & obviously want to avoid them now that we know.

I really want to go on a cold-brew-fuelled hike with Don now XD. If you're ever in the US northeast you know who to call

this is basically my post training drink everyday!

Don, I have a hou Kui green that I really enjoy, but find its disappointing that I can only get a few good hot brews on it brewing midway between wetsern and gongfu style. Do you think this type of tea would do well with cold brew? If so, do you think a full brew or just a quick hot rinse would be better to start with?

Those bottles look pretty much exactly like 'the bobble' water filter bottles, are they different in any way, and if so, how? I mean no offence in any way, just genuilnely curious. Also, do one really want a carbon filter when drinking tea, if even using a clay pot could affect the taste, could not the filter remove taste as well? Followup, is it possible to remove the filter inside the 'siv', 'net'-thing and just use that to filter the leaves? Thanks for really great videos.

If I'm just cold brewing the tea overnight in the fridge (without doing the initial hot brew first) how many times can I reuse those leaves and still get a great flavor from them?

How many times can you reuse the tea leaves? What would you recommened in general?

bruh where do I get this bottle

Has anyone experimented with this method using White Tea?

How much tea leaves do you recommend using for cold brew?

my first video from here... i think my tea journey starts now

Where did you get the bottles you use in this video. ??

But black and Oolong teas are partially or fully fermented meaning there's already a bunch bacteria on the leaves, plus scientist don't know if these bacteria are particularly pathogenic, most aren't, AND the catechins leech out from tea leaves have shown antimicrobial effects.

Did you drink Mezcal ?

This would be great for university. Make some tea the night before and use the leaf to make a bottle of cold tea to grab in the morning.

When you leave a translucent bottle with water exposed to the sun the UV rays kill the bacteria if you leave it enough time. This technique was also displayed by Bear Grylls on his program man vs wild on a episode in which he was on a tropical island.

hey i like your videos, you are clumsy in making tea, enthusiastic and passionate. In other words the opposite of the usual chinese tea shop lady who seems to try and trick you with her manners so perfect and neutral and polite and those plinplin spa musics. So yeah im glad it feels like watching someone like me, or drinking tea with a friend (i esp like the tea with friends series) instead of a product selling video, and sure you add links to how to buy the things shown in the video but thats cool. one thing makes me cringe though, this "join the revelation of true leaf, stay away from the tea bags" stuff, like, feels like a cult. I actually like your videos but yeah tea is just a drink we all like, tastes good, i get what you mean, try good teas but then again probably most people watching tea videos have already tried some loose leaf at some point or were going to try anyways. also, I get that you live in the UK so maybe is different from being in china, you might feel the frustration of offering leaves to people and they would just tell you they rather have tea instead aka a bag but yeah maybe give teabags a bit of a break? some people like them, some don't, who cares. I get that you dont, its ok, making one comparison video might even be interesting but yeah insisting so much sounds kind of snobbish.. take this criticism however you want, i'll keep watching the videos, hope it doesnt sound as "hating", sometimes we criticize the things we care about. xx

7:10 for actual instructions

its time again :)

why is your intro speach the same as from customgrow420 ? like to get some chill from time to time? :D

fucking thank you for this!

Oaxaca es la verga

Water at less than boiling for less than 5 mins is really unlikely to sterilise anything!

I don’t think I understand how just hot water can steralize the tea leaves? Doesn’t it take about 10 mins of boiling for something to get sterile..? And boiling hot water would destroy many of the health benefits teas have.

Recently I discovered that cold brewing can potentially rescue otherwise unusable leaf. I found an old packet of stale, low quality Bai Mu Dan. Smelled like a cardboard box and tasted like a stranger's foot. It was completely undrinkable. Instead of throwing it out I tried cold brewing: - leaf to water at least Gong Fu, perhaps a little more leaf - container filled with the coldest tap water; around 16 C - leave in the refrigerator for 40 minutes / 4 C - strain The resulting infusion was extremely aromatic with strong peach and elderflower notes. I couldn't believe that it came from that horrible leaf. Bear in mind that neither hot wet leaf nor hot liquor had a hint of those aromatics. If that's what happens with garbage leaf I can't imagine what using top quality tea must do!

bro! the entire point of cold brew is to steep tea leaves without cooking them, to perserve the flavours of the tea by not COOKING the leaves in hot water.

How to make iced tea and give it a fancy name...😒🙄

Try being concise. Your 8:30 video had 3:00 of content.

Two minutes into it and he STILL hasn't gotten into what the title mentions: HOW to do such. And when he finally does, he instead uses a method that is NOT strictly cold brewing, but INSTEAD includes hot brewing as part of that process, SMH.

waffle and irrelevant to the key subject .... Not very accurate either