How To Make Sun Tea ?

Here in this article we will show how the Sun tea is made and enjoyed.

To make Sun tea, we need a good tropical summer heat. Now what is a ‘good tropical summer heat’? There isn’t any ideal temperature required to make a cup of Sun tea. Any temperature of the Sun which hovers around the 35°C and 38°C (Around the 95°F to 102°F. This need not be in summer months only.)

We will use loose-leaf Darjeeling black tea here to make a delicious sun tea, but in most cases, it is made with five black tea bags. We‘ll be needing a transparent glass container with a cap to hold about one litre of water.

Method To Make Sun Tea:

We took the Darjeeling tea leaves of Puttabong second flush teas to make sun tea. About four tea spoonfuls are added to the glass container (you may use four to five tea bags if loose leaf teas are not available).

The container was filled with water, preferably filtered water (since the quality of all the teas made depends on the purity of water used and it is hoped that all tea lovers and readers do know the importance of the quality of water used to make ones tea).

A cap to the bottle should be placed and the bottle is to be placed in the Sun with the temperature around 37°C for a period of 4-6 hours. Now how do we measure the temperature of the heat received from the sun? What we did was placed an alcohol thermometer we had with us in the sun. When the tea leaves are steeped, the colour of the water will change gradually with the passage of time. We are steeping at a comparatively low temperatures compared to when it is done at boiling temperatures at normal times. The bottle may be shaken from time to time to allow even permeability of the steeped liquor with the rest of the liquid body. The bottle should be placed away from the Sun after the desired strength of the tea is achieved. In our case, it was a full four and a half hour of steeping time. The tea thus made must be strained and may be savoured directly.

This sun tea may be served with the addition of ice cubes. It may be served with or without sugar. Since the strength of this tea is mild, any addition of sugar is not advised. It tastes quite different to when it was brewed at boiling point. A number of other flavours were discernible when brewed using the powers of the Sun.