Blackberry Iced Tea

5 from 13 votes

Blackberry Iced Tea is flavored with fresh, ripe blackberries and a sweet sugar syrup to give it the perfect amount of sweetness. This easy iced tea recipe only needs a few ingredients and is ready in no time. Blackberry sweet tea is the most refreshing, cool beverage to drink on those hot summer days.

Prep Time10

Cook Time20

Total Time30

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 120kcal

Author: Tristin

Ingredients

Blackberry Simple Syrup

1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
3 cups blackberries fresh
1 tsp lemon juice

Tea

2-3 family size tea bags
8 cups water divided
ice
mint optional

Instructions

In a medium sauce pan, add in the water, sugar and blackberries. Smash the blackberries with a potato masher and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
In a separate pot, bring four cups of water to a rolling boil. Turn off the heat and add in the tea bags, allowing them to steep for 3-5 minutes.
Turn the heat off on the blackberry simple syrup, letting it cool for about 5 minutes. Pour blackberry mixture into a fine mesh strainer over a 4-cup glass measuring cup or a medium bowl. Press down on the berries with the back of a spoon to get all the juice out.
Add the simple syrup to the pitcher. Pour in the hot tea, then 4 cups of cold water into the pitcher. Either mix in all of the simple syrup to the tea and place in the refrigerator or put simple syrup in a small pourable container to serve with the cold tea.
Add in ice, some whole blackberries, and optional fresh mint.

Notes

Instead of mixing in all of the simple syrup to the tea, put simple syrup in a small pourable container to serve with the cold tea.
Straining the blackberry syrup into a 4-cup glass measuring cup works well because it makes it easy to pour into the pitcher.
The blackberry syrup will last up to 3-4 weeks in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
This blackberry sweet tea will last 5 days in the refrigerator.

* Please note that all nutrition information are just estimates. Values will vary among brands, so we encourage you to calculate these on your own for most accurate results.

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