I have the easiest iced green tea recipe you will ever encounter because making cold-brew iced tea is so easy, you don’t even need a source of heat. It’s mild, energizing, and delicious. Keep some in the fridge at all times to gently fuel your mind.

TLDR: Easy to make, gently caffeinated, and refreshing, this grapefruit-infused iced green tea will keep you productive and hydrated all day.

I make a quart of this green tea recipe every day and sip it as I work and it keeps my mind alert with none of the speediness of coffee or its dreaded afternoon crash.

Don’t get me wrong, I drink coffee in the morning. But I can’t drink it all day or I get a stomach ache and jitters.

This green tea, though? I drink it–diluted 1:1 with cold filtered water or seltzer — all day, every day. This is a delightful brain fuel. It also keeps me hydrated, which is good for alertness and productivity.

Ingredients

• 3 Tazo Matcha Mate Grapefruit Tea Bags
• 1 quart water

Iced green tea recipe

Cold brew

To make iced green tea, put the tea bags into the water, with the paper tag hanging over the side. I use a quart Mason jar for this. Put the lid on. Set a timer for four hours. When the timer goes off, remove the tea bags. Put it back in the fridge and sip at will.

If you don’t plan to drink it that quickly, I would suggest flash brewing it instead of that simple cold brew method. It’s not much more difficult but you need hot water.

Flash brew

Put the tea bags in your container and pour boiled water — wait a minute so it cools slightly — over the tea. Wait 30 seconds and add cold, filtered water. The hot water kills any bacteria that might be in the tea. Tea doesn’t go through the same heat treatments that coffee does before it gets to you. So this is safer.

Drink & enjoy

Your iced green tea is best on the first day. And if you used no heat, you should try to drink it that quickly. But it will last up to four days in the fridge. Mine never lasts longer than a day.

I don’t sweeten mine because I’m not a fan of sweet beverages. But you certainly could. Since it’s cold, you would need to use simple syrup for that, since granulated sugars don’t mix well into cold water.

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