This is as Southern as it gets people so put on some country music, invite your relatives over and get out your mason jars!
Preparation:
The Fancy Ice Cubes
Brew some strong regular or decaf tea, pour in ice cube trays and put a sprig of mint in each cube. Once they are frozen you can store them in a large zip lock bag.
Mint Simple Syrup
heat 2 cups or water on stove, add 2 cups of sugar, stir until dissolved. remove form heat, add a large bunch of washed fresh mint and let sit 15 min. Remove Mint, let simple syrup cool to room temperature and strain into a pitcher or bottle and refrigerate.
The Tea
1. Boil 4 cups of water, take off heat and add 12 tea bags and let steep for 7 minutes
2, remove bags and let tea cool
3. add 1 cup of mint simple syrup and 1 cup of Jim Beam Bourbon (or your favorite Bourbon)
4. taste and adjust to your taste, you may want it sweeter (add more simple syrup) or stronger (add more bourbon)
5. pour over your ice cubes and garnish with mint
I have not tried this, but you could do all sorts of variations on this idea. I am thinking you could do lemon herbal tea with gin and make lemon-thyme simple syrup?
If anyone tries a variation with delicious results, please share!
CHEERS!
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