I am the only one in our house that drinks iced tea. The Mister prefers his tea hot. But for the three months out of the year we have nice weather in the Pacific Northwwest, I want my tea to be iced. And I want to be able to offer guests iced tea! Naturally, I was willing to try an Iced Tea DIY thanks to Mighty Leaf.[*]
Everyone seems to have a preference when it comes to iced tea. And usually they aren’t shy about telling you! Some like it sweet, some like it infused with fruits … I like it plain most of the time, but every once in a while I’ll have it Arnold Palmer style {half lemonade}.
But the thing is; Iced Tea can be tricky to get just right. Thankfully, Mighty Leaf has mastered the art and made it easy on us with their boxes of Iced Tea! The first thing I noticed while getting everything ready to make a batch was the bag the tea is held in.
- Number one, it is enormous. I suppose it has to be since each one makes up to a half gallon of iced tea!
- Second, the quality of the pouch is nothing like I’ve ever seen for tea. This isn’t a chintzy staple and string tea bag {is it just me, or do they always seem to break during steeping, leaving you to fish out the tea bag?}. The Mighty Leaf pouch is hand crafted hand-stitched and, really for a tea bag, it is beautiful and smartly designed!
- I can even toss the entire bag in the compost bin when my tea is ready.
Brewing Tips:
There is no guess work when making Mighty Leaf Iced Tea. The directions are simple and clearly outlined on the back of every box. But here are some helpful tips from Mighty Leaf just the same:
1. One Mighty Leaf Iced Tea bag makes a half a gallon of iced tea. The Takeya pitcher holds half a gallon. If you are using another pitcher, verify if it holds one gallon or a half gallon before preparing the iced tea.
2. Prepare your iced tea with filtered or bottled water. Avoid tap, distilled, or mineral water.
3. Boil 4 cups water (filtered or bottled). Be sure not to over- boil the water as it makes flat tasting tea.
4. Pour the 4 cups of boiling water and one Mighty Leaf ® Tea Pouch™ into a heat-safe pitcher like the Takeya iced tea pitcher. Hot water is key! Please do not let the water sit and cool before adding the tea pouch.
5. Be sure that the tea pouch is completely immersed in the water and move it back and forth several times to
6. Steep 4 to 5 minutes. Use a timer and be careful not to steep any longer to avoid bitter-tasting tea.
7. Remove pouch. Add ice to fill your half gallon iced tea pitcher.
8. Add 8 oz ice to a 16 oz glass or fill one third of the Takeya glass water bottle with ice. Pour iced tea over the ice.
9. Reusing the tea pouch is not recommended.
10. Store tea in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
In just a few minutes I had my Takeya pitcher full of the Organic Black Iced Tea, ready and waiting to be sipped on! Of course, there are other Iced Tea varieties to try and Mighty Leaf has some refreshing recipes to go along with them!
• Mighty Leaf Calypso Mango Cooler
Ingredients
32 oz. Mighty Leaf Calypso Mango Iced Tea (1/4 of a gallon)
10 oz. Pineapple Juice
2 ½ oz. Lemon Juice
2 ½ oz. Agave Nectar
Pour half of the Calypso Mango Iced Tea into another pitcher. Now your Takeya iced tea pitcher holds 32 oz. of Mighty Leaf Iced Tea. Add remaining ingredients, stir, pour over ice, enjoy!• Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Julep
Ingredients
32 oz. Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Iced Tea (1/4 of a gallon)
10 oz. Orange Juice
4 to 5 oz. Agave Nectar
Pour half of the Ginger Peach Iced Tea into another pitcher. Now your Takeya iced tea pitcher holds 32 oz. of Mighty Leaf Iced Tea. Add remaining ingredients, stir, pour over ice, enjoy!• Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Fizz
Ingredients
32 oz. Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Iced Tea (1/4 of a gallon)
8 oz. Lemon Juice
8 oz. Mint Syrup
16 oz. Soda Water
Pour half of the Ginger Peach Iced Tea into another pitcher. Now your Takeya iced tea pitcher holds 32 oz. of Mighty Leaf Iced Tea. Add remaining ingredients, stir, pour over ice, enjoy!
Say goodbye to the plastic bottles this summer! Make your own delicious iced tea – Mighty Leaf Iced Tea is all natural and free of sugar, calories, and artificial flavors. And take it to go in a reusable glass water bottle! Perfect to pack in a picnic basket, hit the beach, or take along on a hike.
Buy:
Buy any of the Iced Tea four packs from Mighty Leaf online or at a store near you. It will run you about $5.99 for a box. But let’s do a little math. That means each tea bag is $1.50 {each making 1/2 gallon}, which equals to be about 37 cents per 16oz serving. How much would it be if you grabbed a bottle at the store? $1.50? More? Not only is making your own iced tea a money saver, it cuts down on used resources and waste from buying all those bottled iced teas.
Connect:
Feel free to connect with Mighty Leaf on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to keep up to date with new teas and tea recipe inspiration!
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155 Responses
I would use the ginger mint tea to make my sweet tea with lemon added.
I love fresh brewed sweet tea, but I would love to try the Green tea tropical
They carry it at Publix about 2 miles from my house
I’d make the Ginger Peach Razz recipe with the Ginger Peach Tea.
i would just love the ginger peach with some brown sugar and a bit of real peach for garnish… i’m a plain and simple iced tea girl!
The Classic Black and the Island Pacific teas to name a few 🙂
That Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Julep sounds amazing. I LOVE peaches and peach tea! So I’d use that ginger peach tea for the drink, or really on its own! YUM!
Awesome, they have this tea at a stop and shop right near me, as well as a whole foods and star market! And the search guide directed me to a new tea shop I didn’t know about! Score!
I would like to try this Mighty Leaf Variety Tea Starter Set as a sampler get to try different flavors, like classic black, green tea anything but mango tea as I am highly allergic to mango..
Found that it is not sold in my town have to go to Oklahoma city to check it out to – Health Food Center – 7301 South Penn, Suite D
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73159
Day Phone: (405) 681-6060
MINT POMBERRY cooler with the Pomegranate Berry tea.
Fresh Market in Kildeer ,Illinois
Love having tea! The Coco Chai Rooibos loose leaf tea sounds really good!
Their products are also sold at my local Publix supermarket.
I love a bllackberry tea and I would probably use the gingerpeach
Publix carries Mighty Leaf
I would love their Orange Dulce and I would make it as a sun tea
Cost Plus World Market is the closest to me
I would like to make lemon lime tea with Sunburst Green Iced Tea
Pomegranate Berry
Super Target near me carries them.
Safeway
i’d like the Organic Black Iced Tea Half Gallon
the ginger peach tea sounds amazing!
These are sold at my kroger!
Thanks for the giveaway… SUNBURST GREEN TEA MOJITO / Sunburst Green Iced Tea
I would love the Mighty Leaf’s “Island Breeze” with some rum or Tequila chilled on ice!
Giant Food Store and Wegman’s are my closet stores in State College, PA they are both 41.4 miles away.
I like Sweet Tea but I also like home-brewed tea with fresh mint leaves. *sigh* Delicious. However, I think I might go for a sweet tea with the Ginger Peach!
For the most part I like my tea plain occasionally I’ll make it with a little lime or blackberry flavor, I would use their Organic Pure Black tea
I generally have just plain black tea iced. But I do like peach tea, so I’d use the ginger peach black tea for that.
The Whole Foods market near me carries the tea.
I have a gallon jar I use to make sun tea; I usually use 5 or 6 regular black tea bags and 1 flavored tea bag. The Mighty Leaf Iced Teas are a fabulous idea! And my favorite flavor is Ginger Peach, so I’m all set.
We live in a rural area, but according to the Mighty Leaf Store Locator, the two grocery stores we generally shop at weekly (Hannaford and Shaws) both carry Might Leaf, as does the gourmet shop in town (Rooster Brother). These stores are about 15 miles from here, which is why we limit our shopping trips to one weekly run. Unfortunately, all three stores carry only the tea pouches and not the Iced Tea bags, but I’ll keep an eye out, just in case.
I love different fruit flavored teas and Mango is my favorite. I would use the Calypso Mango tea
The Giant Food Store near me sells it
I love black tea lemonade, so I’d use the organic black tea and mix it with some organic lemonade from my local grocer.
I like iced tea with lemon and would love to try their Organic Sunburst Green Tea.
Our local Safeway store carries these teas.
giant in quakertown pa has it!
My favorite iced tea recipe would be adding fresh sliced pineapples to my mango ice tea and I would love to try this Tahitian Green from Mighty leaf tea’s. I can feel the Aloha with that blend!
My safeway store carries Mighty Leaf tea woohoo.
I like to brew up a batch of tea & sweeten it with raw honey. I would really like to use the Organic Black Iced Tea.
Kroger
Address
1851 Earl Core Road
Morgantown, West Virginia 26505
I would use the Ginger Peach Tea, a real peach in the glass with Ice and some Zevia for sweetner!
I would try the green mint tea with lots of ice and lemon
We have a Whole Foods 10 minutes away
I would try Sunburst Green Iced Tea Half Gallon
Ginger Peach Iced tea
Cost Plus World Market is the store that carries it! Very close to me.
The Ginger Peach tea sounds so delicious – I’m sure it would taste amazing with some fresh peaches.
I would make the Mighty Leaf Calypso Mango Cooler with Mighty Leaf Calypso Mango Iced Tea!!Sounds so refreshing!
Publix carries their products here!
I would like to try the Calypso Mango Iced Tea.
The Kroger store in Columbia carries this.
I would make the green tea latte with just plain green tea, since that’s my favorite!
i would make sweet tea using the calypso mango!
nearest store is kroger, its like 2 miles from my house
Pomegranate berry sounds delicious to me! I love fresh brewed iced tea.
I love iced tea with lemon, so I know I’d like the citrusy Sunburst flavor.
These are available at the Whole Foods and the Cost Plus where I do a lot of shopping!
I like the ginger peach tea with ginger ale and crushed ice. Its a great summer cooler.
I would use the ginger mint tea to make my sweet tea with lemon added
safeway has it
I brew it and let it set all day, just plain hot black tea and lots of ice. Old fashioned. As for tea I’d like to try—Sunburst Green Tea
There are two separate whole foods stores that carry it near my house.
calypso mango
I like to make sweet tea and would use the ginger peach tea to make it.
• Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Fizz with Classic Black
Caffeine Level: Most
Cost Plus World Market
Address
7071 Youree Drive
Shreveport, Louisiana 71105
fresh brewed sweet tea and the Island Pacific teas
I really like Half and Half (Half Lemonade and Half Iced Tea). I think the Ginger Peach Iced Tea flavor would work well for this.
The Island Breeze looks amazing! I’m new to iced tea, so I’d start with that!
Safeway, 2.6 miles away
I like the peach tea recipe.
I would use the ginger mint tea to make my sweet tea with honey and vanilla added.
i would love to try the Mighty Leaf Calypso Mango Cooler with the Mango Iced Tea. sounds so refreshing
kroger that is 8.5 miles away carries it
The Cost Plus World Market is only about 5 miles from here.
I use plain green tea at home, and would like to try the Green Tea Tropical or maybe the Organic.
I would use the Classic Black Tea and add lemon juice and a few slices of lemon with a little bit of stevia in a tall glass filled with ice. YUM!
Hannaford In Bangor ME is the closest store near me.
I would make a nice iced lemon tea with Classic Black mighty leaf tea
I have a kroger 3.6 miles from me where I can buy it!
I really don’t have a favorite recipe, just water, tea, the sun, and sugar. I guess I have been living a boring tea existence! lol I would love to try the Sunburst Green Iced Tea. Maybe even as a blended ice tea drink. That would be yummy! Thank you for the giveaway!
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There are no stores within 100 miles that carry this product. 🙁 Hopefully that will change soon!
girlygirlugh at gmail dot com
i want to try the sunburst green tea
i can buy them at my nearby giant landover
My favorite recipe is Sunburst Green Tea Mojito and I would use the Sunburst Green Iced Tea to make it.
I love making fresh sweet tea, i’d also love to try the ginger peach flavor!
Closest store Alberton’s
Address
8985 Venice Bl, Ste “B”
Los Angeles, California 90015
Day Phone: (310) 202-6167
The Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Julep sounds amazing so I would use the Ginger Tea 🙂
SUNBURST GREEN TEA MOJITO with sunburst green iced tea.
the Ginger Peach Razz recipe with the Ginger Peach Tea
Mighty Leaf Ginger Peach Fizz
Thanks for the contest.
Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers – where I shop a lot.
Calypso Mango tea
I would make CALYPSO MANGO LEMONADE
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Kroger
1783 E OHIO PIKE
AMELIA, OH 45102
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I don’t have a favorite other than just cold brewed tea. I would choose the Organic black iced tea.
Suzannes Natural Market Joplin, MO
Aloe Serenity Green Tea sounds amazing and my daughter in law is a HUGE green tea fan so I love to have to it on hand…
I love fruit teas so I would use the Calypso Mango Iced Tea to make some
This is sold at the Super Target 15 miles from my house in Aurora, CO
I make a mint tea and the peach or mango would be great with it
I’d use the Sangria Mighty Leaf tea for sparkling iced tea!!
I would like to try the Organic Sunburst Green Tea
Calypso Mango sounds fantastic
the nearest store is situated almost 100 miles from us in LA
I like Sweet tea but would love to try the Island Breeze tea
The closest store that carries this is a Krogers about 16 miles from me 🙂 I live in the middle of no where, lol
Calypso Mango with couple crushed mint leaves.
Calypso Mango Iced Tea Half Gallon and put some slices of fruit in the tea.
Whole Foods is the closest store to carry this tea. I was hoping it would be at Giant Eagle.
I like it with sugar & fresh lemon – I’d use the Organic Black Iced Tea Half Gallon
there are two local stores that carry Mighty Leaf – a Kings and a Stop & Shop
I make my own special blend of ice tea that everyone in my family loves I would love to use the organic pure black tea to make it.
I’d like to make the Ginger Peach Razz.
ginger mint tea eith honry
I love iced green tea with mint! So delicious! I would like to try it with the tahitian green!
I’d love the Calypso Mango Iced Tea with Lemon!
I love Tea! I would choose either Vanilla Bean or the Ceylon Yalta Black Tea
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Smith’s Grocery carries Mighty Leaf Tea and their only about a 1/4 of a mile away from where I live 🙂
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I’m not big on recipes. I’d use the Calypso mango with some vodka in it for some zip. 🙂
My local Giant in Abingdon, MD carries Mighty leaf teas.
We just like to make sun tea: put the water and teabags in the pitcher and leave it in the sun for a few hours. I would love to make the Calypso Mango Iced Tea!
I can get it at my local Publix
I love Rosemary Tea. I use Mighty Leaf Vanilla Bean and add dried rosemary from my garden.
Jimbo’s
Address
1633 South Centre Drive
Escondido, California 92025
Day Phone: (760) 489-7755
I like the GINGER PEACH APPLE SLING, and i’d use the Ginger Peach Iced Tea.
Rice Epicurean Market carries it!
Calypso Mango Iced Tea
Peach Tea and Kroger less then a mile down road carries it
Our local Kroger has this tea and I can’t wait to try it.
Organic Sunburst Green Tea
Kroger carries it.
The dark and stormy tea cooler recipe with black tea sounds good
Whole Foods! Only 4 miles away!
I like all kinds of Iced Tea, so I would use the Iced Tea Collection to try a lot of them.
The closest stores to me is are 12 – 20 miles
Sunburst Green tea mojito with the Sunburst Green Tea from Mighty Leaf.
The closest store to me that sells Mighty Leaf Tea is a Kroger store about 4 miles away.
Tea saves me during the summer heat!
hot tea with lemon and mint…….would like the calypso mango tea……THANKS
krogers 22.3 miles
the sunburst green iced tea is my choice and the Publix 20 miles from my home has it .I drink a lot of tea at my home about 1 gal a day
I would make the Organic Black tea with lots of lemon and liquid Stevia to sweeten
The new Publix just down the street from me has it – can’t wait to try some!
Calypso Mango Iced Tea Half Gallon!
I would make my lemon tea with the classic black leaf.
There isn’t a store in my town but the town I shop in quite often has it at Kroger.
I’m a simple tea lover – I would use the Sunburst tea and pair it with plenty of fresh mint or a splash of apple juice or cider
Whole Foods carries Mighty Leaf in my town
Our local SAFEWAY carries Mighty Leaf.
My neighborhood Safeway carries the tea
Black tea with simple syrup and mint