Brit here, and I keep hearing about sweet tea, which sounds a little like the bottles of iced tea you can buy in the UK (usually liptons). Is this the same drink? Does sweet tea in the south come with different flavours such as lemon or peach? Does it have caffeine in it? Can you make it at home, and if so, how?! Thank you!
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Iced tea is cold tea that can be sweetened or not. Sweet tea is sweetened iced tea. I guess hot tea with sugar in it is just hot tea with sugar in it.
OH HO HO HO HO. IT IS NOT. Do not EVER make the mistake of giving someone from the south anything that’s bottled. It’s just water, sugar, tea. Depending on the family ratios will change and whether or not they use cold seep or hot seep bags. Sometimes a lemon goes inside but not necessarily.
Depends where you’re from but if you’re in the south assume that all iced tea is sweet. Idk about the bottles tbh
Sweet tea is Iced tea with a fuckload of sugar in it.
Iced tea is just a variety of black tea served cold. One less bitter than usually drunk hot, but still black tea.
To do it right you need to hot brew, add the sugar while it’s still at that near boil and then chill it.
Fresh made does taste notably different than the bottled stuff, though it’s all still too sweat for me.
Sweetened Iced tea is sufficiently popular down here that I order “unsweet tea” when out because sweet is often assumed if you don’t specify.
Sweet tea is tea where water was heated, sugar was dissolved into the hot water, and then used to brew tea, often over ice and kept cold.
Ice tea is regular tea with ice, none of the sugar process. It might have sugar added but didn’t go through the whole sugar-in-hot-water step.
Sweet tea is super sugary iced tea served like water in the south (although you can buy it too). It is usually a lot sweeter than the stuff you get presweetened from Lipton or Snapple though. It can have different flavors but like this article says, it should be made with black tea, orange pekoe flavored (Like the regular lipton tea brand). How To Make Southern Sweet Tea will tell you how to make it and a little more info about history, etc.
Kind of, but it tends to be cloyingly sweet
No. Iced tea is just tea served cold. You add your own sweetener or flavoring to it.
Sweet tea has massive amounts of sugar and is disgusting.
Sweet tea is always iced tea but iced tea isn’t always sweet.