Iced Mao Feng Green Tea
A clean, sweet iced green tea with no bitterness: brewed cool, never boiling, then gently chilled, with cucumber and mint.
Iced Mao Feng is clean, sweet and faintly peachy, the opposite of the bitter green iced tea you get from a vending machine. The secret is the same as the hot cup: brew it cool, never with boiling water, then chill it gently, so the delicate sweetness carries all the way into the glass.
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It uses Teapigs Mao Feng Green Tea, a whole leaf Chinese green tea. Ten minutes plus chilling, and it makes a jug.
You'll need
- 4 Teapigs Mao Feng Green Tea tea temples
- 500ml water, boiled then cooled to about 80C
- 500ml cold water
- Cucumber, mint and a little honey, optional
- Ice, to serve
Method
- Boil fresh water, then let it cool 2 to 3 minutes to roughly 80C. Pouring boiling water on green tea, even for iced, makes it bitter.
- Pour the cooled water over the 4 temples and steep just 3 minutes, then lift the temples out without squeezing.
- Stir in a little honey while warm only if you want it sweeter; good Mao Feng is naturally sweet.
- Cool to room temperature, then chill. There is no need to crash it over ice; gentle chilling protects the delicate flavour.
- Stir in the 500ml cold water and serve over ice with cucumber and mint.
- The brewed base keeps 2 days in the fridge; green tea fades faster than black so make it fresh.
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Brewed with: Teapigs Mao Feng Green Tea, 15 Tea Bags 37.5g
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