Day Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight - Brisk

When I was little and I would eat @ restaurants with my family I would always order iced tea [even though I was a shameful Coke addict and still am]. I felt that it was a terribly mature choice and I always yearned to be terribly mature [ironically enough]. Then all of a sudden iced tea was available everywhere and it lost most of its allure for me as it tasted to me more filled with preservatives and too sweet for my tastes.

I do have a taste for tea in general, though. Each time I make herbal tea I look @ the "instructions for cold tea" and think - that's a good idea - I should make my own iced tea. And so I did - I made iced herbal tea. The process is obviously quite simple - this isn't rocket surgery here - you make a concentrate of hot tea with a small amount of water, large amount of tea bags. Let the conconction steep and then add cold water and sweeten with honey or sugar to taste. I decided to use wild jumbleberry flavour since I feel like I've been drinking that flavour since the beginning of time. The end result tasted to me like some diet iced tea drink - this was after I had added sugar [Joseph thinks I didn't add enough sugar]. It tasted much better without sweetener, although the flavour was a bit muted - I think I was a little cautious in the number of tea bags - for herbal tea one should probably add more than if one were making regular iced tea.

Here's the magical brew!