berries in a white tea cup

How to Make Berry Tea

Are you looking for a new sweet tea with a different delicious flavor to spark your tastebuds? You might be wondering how to make berry tea to try something different. Berry tea is delicious but it can be time consuming to make. There are other ways to get your berry tea fix without all the recipes and kitchen mess that comes with it.

Learning how to make berry tea comes with finding a recipe, carving out some time in your kitchen to make it and cleaning up a berry mess. The easiest and best way to make berry tea is finding a cold brew berry flavored tea bag to make great sweet tea fast!

Learn the ins and outs of berry tea and discover the best way to make cold brew berry tea.

What Type of Tea is Berry Tea?

Many ask, what is berry tea? Berry tea is tea that has natural berry flavor typically combined with a black tea blend to create a unique berry flavored tea. Hibiscus flavored tea with natural flavor also creates an infusion of berry flavored tea that’s delicious. 

What Berries are Good in Tea? 

There are many types of berries that are great when mixed with black tea or have natural flavor to create that berry tea taste. Berries that are tasty in tea include: 

  • Blackberries
  • Raspberries
  • Elderberries
  • Cranberries
  • Juniper berries
  • Acai berries
  • Goji berries
  • Hawthorn berries

Does Berry Tea Have Sugar?

Some berry teas, especially sweet berry iced teas, contain sugar when they are made homemade and mixed with fruit. Other types of cold brew bag teas contain no sugar and opt instead for tea mixed with sucralose that creates a tea that stays just as sweet without sugar and carbs!

How Much Caffeine Is In Berry Tea?

The amount of caffeine in berry tea is listed on the packaging or you can ask the manufacturer for the amount of caffeine in the tea. Some berry teas offer caffeine free versions of berry flavored tea that provides benefits for those looking for a tea product without caffeine that also won’t keep them awake at night.

Does Berry Tea Have Antioxidants? 

a bowl of berries and a cup of tea

You have to look on the label of your berry tea packaging to see whether your tea contains antioxidants or not. For instance, if the berry tea you are drinking is made with the leaves of berry bushes that contain antioxidants, your tea will contain antioxidants. 

If your tea is a berry herbal tea that uses hibiscus and natural flavor to create that delicious berry tea, your tea won’t contain antioxidants. 

How to Make Blackberry Tea

A homemade recipe for blackberry sweet tea involves an easy step by step process: 

  • Make a simple syrup that combines blackberries and sugar in a saucepan. 
  • Mash the blackberries with a fork to release the juices
  • Stir in 1 cup of water
  • Bring the mixture to a boil
  • Reduce heat and let mixture simmer for 15 minutes
  • While the syrup is simmering, boil 4 cups of water in a separate pot and turn off the heat
  • Add the number of black tea bags that the steeping instructions call for
  • Remove the tea bags and pour the hot water into a pitcher
  • Use a mesh strainer to strain the syrup over a pitcher and pour the hot water into the pitcher
  • Use the fork to push down on the remaining berries to extract more juice
  • Add 4 cups of cool water and stir
  • Chill until cold and serve your blackberry sweet tea over ice!

How to Make Raspberry Iced Tea

A homemade recipe forwhat berries  raspberry sweet iced tea involves:

  • Bringing two quarts of water to a boil in a saucepan and removing from heat
  • Adding the number of black tea bags that the steeping instructions call for
  • Discarding tea bags
  • In another pot, bringing a package of raspberries and two quarts of water to a boil.
  • Reducing heat and simmering uncovered for 3-5 minutes. 
  • Straining and throwing away raspberry pulp
  • Adding the raspberry juice to the tea, stirring and chilling
  • Serving over ice and enjoying!

How to Make Sweet Tea Easy and Guilt Free

Those recipes above can be time consuming. There’s an easier way to both make and drink guilt-free sweet tea that comes in the form of cold brew tea bags that contain zero carbs and zero sugar. All you have to do is drop in a cold brew bag, pour cold water, chill and enjoy glass after glass. 

Try Southern Breeze’s Best Berry Tea Today 

a bowl of raspberries next to a box of southern breeze sweet raspberry tea

You have learned a lot about berry tea, including how to make it and what types of berry tea is popular. But did you know that Southern Breeze Sweet Tea offers delicious blackberry sweet tea and raspberry sweet tea in cold brew tea bags like we mentioned above? 

Southern Breeze Sweet Tea offers pre-sweetened decaffeinated cold brew blackberry tea bags and raspberry tea bags that are berry perfection. You can also try a decaf cold brew variety pack to try more flavors! All you do is steep the tea bags in cold water for five minutes, chill, add ice and enjoy! These decaffeinated blends also contain no sugar, so you can sip glass after glass with no guilt, y’all! These teas have berry flavor from hibiscus and also contain zero calories and zero carbs! 

The next time you are in the mood for some delicious sweet berry tea that’s easy to make, try Southern Breeze Sweet Tea today!

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