<p>Fill the teakettle with cold water, add two tablespoons of sugar, and bring it to a boil. Remove from the heat and place four Good Earth green tea with lemongrass bags in the kettle. Let it steep on the counter until room temperature. Pour into a glass pitcher and chill.</p>
<p>The small amount of sugar removes any trace of bitterness, but doesn’t really make it sweet. My entire family loves this tea.</p>
<p>I’ve made the sun tea as well and never found that it was bitter.</p>
<p>Snopes does say that sun tea can harbor bacteria and has suggestions for reducing the risk: [snopes.com:</a> Bacteria in Sun Tea Risk](<a href=“http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp]snopes.com:”>Bacteria in Sun Tea Risk | Snopes.com)</p>
<p>If you are using hot water, I think the trick is not to steep it too long.</p>
<p>I finally stopped making sun tea last year. Here’s the easy way on the stove. </p>
<p>1) Buy the quart size tea bags.</p>
<p>2) Bring a saucepan of water to a boil.</p>
<p>3) Put 1, 2, 3, or 4 teabags in boiling saucepan and turn the burner off.</p>
<p>4) Let the tea bags steep for a while until you remember, then remove them.</p>
<p>5) Pour the tea into your ice tea jar.</p>
<p>6) Top up the jar with cold water, to the previously memorized marks: one quart for 1 bag, two quarts for 2 bags, 3 quarts for three bags, 4 quarts for four bags.</p>
<p>7) Only make the amount of tea you’ll drink in two days. It really doesn’t keep that well. This method definitely keeps better than sun tea because all the bacteria is killed by the initial boiling water.</p>
<p>I make sun tea (or use the coffeemaker) every day. Using Tazo Awake tea bags and Stash Mango Passionfruit.</p>
<p>i use my keurig to brew fresh iced tea.</p>
<p>there are articles about how sun tea (brewed without boiling water) is not safe because the tea may harbor bacteria.
What I do is buy loose leaf tea - high quality. I put one scoop (about a tablespoon) into a half-gallon sized pitcher and pour in boiling water. I then funnel it through a strainer into a large glass milk bottle, cool it, cover the top, and refrigerate it. It works well and is very inexpensive, even using expensive tea; it’s a little messier than using tea bags, but generally tea in teabags is like floor sweepings compared to loose tea.</p>