Mixed Berry Iced Tea

What’s better than strawberry sweet tea in the summertime? If you love fruit, this mixed berry iced tea with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and/or blackberries might be the perfect iced tea. 

It’s a thirst quenching, refreshing drink that looks beautiful in glasses or mason jars. The berries add vivid colors as well as incredible natural flavors and the nutritional punch of fruit.

How to Make Berry Tea

This fruit tea recipe starts from my basic iced tea. Once you have that prepared, you’ll make a simple syrup with white sugar and the fruit. (If the fruit is sweet enough, you may need less sweetener and can cut back on the sugar.)

1. Make Southern sweet tea from this recipe.
2. Grab a saucepan and add 4 cups of water, 1½ cups of sugar, and 4 cups of mixed berries. You can use fresh or frozen, whatever you have on hand. Bring this beautiful mixture to a boil over high heat, then let it simmer for about 10 minutes. The smell is going to be incredible!
3. Now, strain the mixture. If you have a wide-topped pitcher, you can go ahead and strain the fruit syrup directly into the pitcher using a mesh strainer. 
4. Fill the rest of the pitcher with fresh iced tea, stir, and then the tea is ready to pour and enjoy. 
5. Here is an extra step to impress your family and guests, or just you! Take a separate 2-quart pitcher and add a handful of frozen berries to the bottom. Fill the pitcher up halfway with ice. The frozen berries will be beautiful, but they aren’t just for looks—they are going to help keep the tea nice and cold without watering it down too much.
6. Next, layer some sliced lemon rounds between the ice and the glass all the way around the pitcher. It’s going to look gorgeous, and the ice will keep the lemons upright when you pour in the tea from your other pitcher.
7. Now, carefully pour fresh iced tea into the pitcher. Give the tea a stir and top it off with a few more berries and a sprig or two of fresh mint. 
8. Pour the tea into glasses, garnish with lemon sliced and strawberry pieces if desired, and voilà  —stunning and delicious mixed berry iced tea, ready to wow your guests!

Mixed Berry Iced Tea

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Course Drinks

Cuisine American

Servings 8 servings

Ingredients

  

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• 3 cups mixed fresh or frozen
• berries such as raspberries,
• blackberries and
• blueberries plus more for
• garnish
• 4 cups water
• 1½ cups sugar
• 4 cups Sweet Iced Tea
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• 2 lemons or limes cut into rounds for the pitcher or wedges for the glasses
• Mint sprigs for garnish (optional)

Instructions

 

• In a large saucepan, bring the berries, water, and sugar to a boil over medium-high heat. Turn the heat down and simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour the berry mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a gallon-size pitcher, pressing the berries with the back of a spoon to squeeze out every last drop of juice. Discard all that’s left in the strainer.
• Add the iced tea to the pitcher and stir. Refrigerate the tea for at least 1 hour before serving. Add additional berries and lemon rounds to the pitcher, then pour over ice.
• Garnish with a wedge of lemon, a few berries, and a mint sprig, if desired.

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