Name: Cold Brew Peppermint Leaves
Total time: 58 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 5 Teapigs Peppermint Leaves tea temples; 1 litre cold filtered water; A few slices of cucumber or lemon, optional; A 1 litre jug or bottle with a lid; Ice and fresh mint, to serve

Cold brewing is the best way to keep peppermint at its freshest. Steeping the leaves in cold water in the fridge holds onto the volatile menthol that hot water boils off, so the result is cleaner and more intensely minty than any hot then chilled version, with no caffeine and no sugar.

Source: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Cold Brew Peppermint Leaves recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/cold brew/cold brew peppermint leaves/

It uses Teapigs Peppermint Leaves, a pure caffeine free peppermint infusion. Five minutes of work, then the fridge does the rest overnight.

⏱ 5 min + 8 hr steep 🍽 Serves 4 📊 Easy 📚 Cold Brew Tea Recipes

You'll need

5 Teapigs Peppermint Leaves tea temples
1 litre cold filtered water
A few slices of cucumber or lemon, optional
A 1 litre jug or bottle with a lid
Ice and fresh mint, to serve

Method

Put the 5 temples into the jug with the optional cucumber or lemon and pour over the litre of cold filtered water.
Lid the jug and refrigerate 6 to 10 hours, or overnight. Cold water keeps all the menthol that hot brewing drives off, so this is the freshest mint method.
Lift the temples out, press gently and discard.
It needs nothing else; cold brew peppermint is clean and faintly sweet on its own.
Serve over ice with fresh mint. Caffeine free, so good all day and last thing at night.
Keeps 3 days lidded in the fridge.

What you'll end up with: A crystal clear cold brewed peppermint with its full menthol intact: cleaner and fresher than a hot brew, and it keeps three days.

Save / print

🛒 Made with this tea

Teapigs Peppermint Leaves, 15 Tea Bags 30g£7.00