Summer Cooling Tea

Organic Plumberry Iced Tea

The recent soaring temperatures are a sure indicator that summer is in full swing!  Running for cover in your air-conditioned home will surely cool you off, but it won’t protect you from dehydration. The summer heat alone can easily strip us of much-needed hydration through excessive perspiration. Effects from dehydration can be severe.  For overall health, we need to drink plenty of fluid to replace any that is lost from sweating.

An excellent way to keep hydrated during these warm months is to keep a cold pitcher of iced tea always available.  

Iced Tea Tips:

It’s easy to make a pitcher of iced tea, in tandem with your morning tea or coffee. Just use the same kettle of hot water,  add to your iced tea blend and voila!

Strain as usual and keep chilled.

Add sweetener if you choose while the tea is brewing hot. The sweetener will melt and dissolve much easier when hot.

To avoid a sweetener try iced tea blends that have dried fruit and flowers, this will satisfy the sweetness while still refreshing you.

Want to avoid extra caffeine, try a loose leaf herbal blend same as you would brew regular iced tea, and drink it without worry by the gallons.

Here are some of my favorite summer blends, all fantastically refreshing iced teas, full-bodied flavor and strong enough to hold up to lots of ice.

Moroccan Mint

Organic Iced Moroccan Mint Tea

Rubeus Africana

Organic Iced Rubeus Africana Rooibos Tea

After Moon Peaches

Organic After Moon Peaches Iced Tea

Not just any iced tea.

Serve your family the best iced tea

With summer upon us, Americans are drinking lots of iced tea. But not all iced tea is good iced tea, and even rarer is great iced tea.

It’s important to know a few facts about tea to ensure you have proper quality iced tea.

The grade of tea, even iced tea can make all the difference for delicious brew that you and your friends and family want to drink over and over.

Start with organic loose leaf tea, and make sure it is of quality grade. Look at the tea before you buy it if you can, and see if it has a fresh and healthy appearance. Old tea, comes across as stale and flat. Smaller boutique style tea companies are a good bet for fresh tea in non bulk amounts.

Good iced tea can be made via a cold brew method (leaving your tea in cold water over night in your refrigerator) or the traditional way of brewing a rue, or tea base and then adding your cold water after it has had time to brew. Either method allows for the very important process of the tea leaf to unfurl, releasing flavor and nutrients into your iced tea.

These two points of quality organic loose leaf tea, and allowing for the unfurl of the tea will add something great to your iced tea experience.

Da Cha Teas has had such success with our iced tea blends this year that we have made them available in pound bags as well as our standard 4 ounce size.

Organic Aftermoon Peaches is classic summer refreshment. Top quality black teas from India, and dried peach with natural peach flavor. It’s delicious and flavorful enough to handle the extra water which comes from making iced tea.

Organic Plumberry Black, this unique and rare black tea comes from ancient tea trees in a remote tea village in Vietnam, rich and malty in flavor with plum and berry natural flavor, marigold flowers and hibiscus pieces makes for instant refreshment, and a tea you won’t soon forget.

Organic Black Plumberry

So with summer heat still beating down on us, make sure you set up your ice tea experience for better taste and better nutrition too.

Get creative and add cut peaches or fresh berries and mint to your iced tea

For you folks who want to liven up the party try adding a shot of highly distilled vodka to your Iced Peach tea.

Vietnamese Rare and Exotic tea, makes fantastic iced tea.

Organic Black Plumberry Iced Tea, made from unique wild tea leaves from ancient tea trees that are hundreds of years old.  The trees grow in the remote western part of Vietnam, close to the Chinese and Laotian borders. In this most Northern mountainous region of Vietnam live several tribes who differ from the main ethnic majority in Vietnam. The two tribes the H’mong and the Dao, have their own language their own customs, and culture. The local people have always cultivated this tea, and it remains one of the main sources of income for the region.

H’mong picking tea by climbing old and ancient tea tree

 The Nam Lahn ancient tea trees have a unique character, with heavy malty notes and contain approximately 85 percent more polyphenols than other cultivated varieties of tea. Our tea is finely blended with flavorful tones of plum and berry with hibiscus and osmanthus flowers. This tea makes a remarkably satisfying cup of full bodied black tea, as well as a totally refreshing treat when iced.  A rare tea leaf indeed, with top quality premium leaf and distinctive flavor to this region of  full of deep rich maltiness. These tea trees are all organic and the trees have never been altered in anyway.

Da Cha Teas Organic Plumberry Iced Tea

With the tea flavor rich in malty goodness, and harmoniusly blended with the artistic combination of plums and berries, this can only make for an outstanding tea blend perfectly refreshing, flavorful and invigorating.

Refreshing Summer time exotic tea

Enjoy a flavor which has been cultivated generation after generation in Nam Lahn Mountains in Vietnam.