Brewing Instructions

Preparation Instructions
 

Black Tea

 

Ingredients:
  1. SilverTips Brand Tea Tea Bags
  2. Hot Water (Filtered or Bottled Water)
  3. Sugar/Honey to taste
  4. Milk (as required)
   
Method
  1. Bring the water to a boil
  2. Rinse the cup with hot water
  3. Place one SilverTips® Tea Bag in the cup
  4. Add boiling water to the cup
  5. Let the tea brew for 2-3 min
  6. Add milk or a slice of Lemon/lime if you prefer
  7. Add Sugar or Honey to taste
   
Serves: 1 Cup
   
Suggestions: When using milk, boiling the milk enhances the taste of the tea.
 

   

Iced Tea

 

Ingredients:
  1. SilverTips Brand Tea Tea Bags
  2. Ice Cubes
  3. Couple of Sprigs of Mint or thinly pared rind of citrus fruit
  4. Honey/Sugar to sweeten the tea
   
Method:
  1. While making the hot tea remember to use twice the amount of tea bags as you would normally use in the hot tea pot because it will be diluted with ice.
  2. Boil water and steep twice the usual amount of tea bags for 2-3 minutes in the hot water
  3. Add a sprig of mint or thinly paired citrus fruit or lemon/lime
  4. Fill the glass with Ice and pour the hot tea over the ice
  5. Add honey/sugar to sweeten the tea
   
Serves: 1 Cup
   
Suggestions:
  1. You can add a splash of your favorite fruit cordial or syrup to sweeten the tea.
  2. Suggested teas to use: SilverTips® Orange Pekoe, SilverTips® Chai Tea

   

CHAI (Spiced Tea)

 

Ingredients
  1. SilverTips Brand Tea Tea Bags
  2. 1/3 of a cup water
  3. 2/3 of a cup milk
  4. 1 bag of SilverTips Brand Tea for each cup
  5. Some freshly chopped ginger
  6. Cardamom pods
  7. A piece clove (optional)
  8. Sugar to sweeten
  9. Cinnamon
   
Method:
  1. Add water, milk to the pot and heat it
  2. Add SilverTips Brand Tea Tea Bags (add more than one to make it a stronger cup) to the pot
  3. Add the ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and sugar to the tea
  4. Stir the pot.
  5. Turn up the heat and bring it to a boil. Swirl the tea around until it reaches the desired strength and the flavors of the spices kick in.
  6. Take the pot off the heat source
  7. Strain tea into tea cups and serve.
   
Serves: 1 Cup
   
Suggestions: Suggested tea to use SilverTips® Orange Pekoe.