Luzianne Cold Brew Black Tea Bags, Family Size, Unsweetened, 22 Count Box, Specially Blended For Cold Brew In Water, Clear & Refreshing Home Brewed Southern Iced Tea

First off, you must know that I am a recovering Pepsi addict. I am trying to get away from all the sodas with high fructose corn syrups. I still love carbonated drinks, and am allergic to aspartame, so my substitutions have been very limited. There are so many great flavored drinks out there, but the manufacturers seem to want to load them with aspartame or even splenda. I prefer stevia, but good luck getting that for less than $1 a drink! (Crystal Light is really missing the boat with a whole lot of women by using aspartame in the majority of their great-sounding flavors - I'd buy it all the time if they were stevia.) Anyway, I really have not been a huge fan of regular iced tea. I've tried several brands, and the only other one I really like is the Bigelow Red Raspberry herbal tea. The rest of my family drinks a lot of iced tea, but I just never really liked the black tea they drink. I've tried many brands, but most are just not appealing to me. I do like Luzianne, having lived in Texas for many years and it is very popular there, but Hubby never buys it! Since he is the main tea drinker, it is not something I demand my way on! ; ) So, thought I would give this one a try. I'd heard plenty of good things about green tea, but never had it before. I'd had sips of gas station bottles of green tea with all kinds of other flavorings in them, but regular, plain green tea was still a mystery to me. The cold brew was a big attraction to me, because I am partially disabled, and have limited access to the kitchen/stove area. However, I can fill a pitcher with water from the upstairs sink, and have a small fridge upstairs. This tea was VERY good! I was not sure what to expect, so I am not judging it against other green teas. It's my first plain green tea. I loved the way I could use two tea bags to make a full quart of tea. I guess you could use just one if you like it weaker, or could let it sit overnight. I sip liquid all day long, so waiting a long time isn't on my agenda either! Ha! The taste is light and refreshing. There's no funky aftertaste or fuzzy-tongue from this one. I've tried it with and without sweetener, and actually prefer it right from the pitcher with nothing added. Now, it is all a matter of taste, so i cannot give you a blanket 'you'll love it', because everyone's taster/palate is different. However, I can honestly say that I can see this replacing my pepsi entirely! I don't drink much pepsi during the summer anyway, since it gets syrupy, but still didn't like the tea my husband made either. Plain water gives me ferocious heartburn for some reason, so I need a flavor of some sort in my drinks. (Most of the little tubes of flavored drink mixes for water bottles use aspartame. What a shame!) We have already gone through the first box pretty fast, with only two tea bags left! My son loves it better than the black tea too, and we knock out between a half gallon to a gallon a day between us, and it isn't even summer yet! If I had one criticism, it would be how the tea is packaged. What you see is what you get - the tea bags are sitting directly inside the box, which is then wrapped in cellophane. Once that cellophane wrapper is broken, there is no way to keep the tea fresh, except putting it in your own baggie or jar. There is no wax liner or any other liner in the box to fold back over the tea. I bought a snap-seal wide-mouth container Snapware 1022 32-Ounce Square-Grip Canister ] to keep them nice and fresh, and just empty out the boxes as soon as we get them, and tuck them into the container. Very easy. The tea bags are large, and on a long string with a tag at the end. We just put them in our pitcher with the tags hanging over the edge, and put it in the fridge to brew. So easy! Meanwhile, I have already ordered more, and will try to find it locally as well. Luzianne, you have done a wonderful job with this tea! As long as the quality stays the same, I'll be a very happy repeat customer! Update April 20, 2013: We can't find this tea locally, so we are glad Amazon carries it. This continues to be the drink of choice for me. I also bought an infuser and want to try it with some fruit flavors as well, although I have not yet tried it - been pretty happy with the original flavor of this tea. I will definitely try out lemons, limes and other fruits this summer.

I always wondered why my brewed iced green tea never tasted like the green tea from the restaurant or from a bottle. I wanted to drink it for the health benefits and stop drinking so many carbonated drinks... Well, my answer was based in time and temperature and the quantity I needed for a whole pitcher, plus a few other factors... I started buying several different brands, but I never did make a nicely brewed iced green tea that satisfied me, until now.... Cold brew! I don't even have to think about it. My daughter swears *only* Luzianne teas when she makes her (simple syrup based) sweet tea, but I had never tried it before this purchase. I normally used PG Tips, which makes a wonderful hot tea, but not so much for iced tea... This cold brew turned out perfect the very first time I tried it. Now I put it out on the porch, one big tea bag in filtered water in a sealed glass carafe and by break time it is ready... Add a little stevia and lemon slices... So fresh every day... better than bottled. Bonus... I've cut out all cola products from my life and saved $$ in the process.

This is the only tea me & my family have used for the last few years. Easy to make, great flavor. Sometimes hard to find in store so I started getting it here.

My favorite tea... Nothing else needs to be said.

I discovered cold brew tea a few years ago and have never turned back! That was the regular tea, of course, and I have been wanting to try green tea, but never have liked hot tea, which is all I could find. When I found the Luzianne cold brew green tea, I had to try it! I still am not wild about the taste of green tea, but I steep one of the green and one of the regular and I have gotten used to it. Cold brew tea is so convenient, and the taste is still very robust and tastes boiled! Love it!

Perfectly delicious, quick, easy, fast cold brew iced tea. This is the iced tea they serve at Jersey Mike’s Sub Sandwiches. It’s YUMMY. 5 minutes of dunking the bag in cold water and you are done.

Better than Lipton!

Delicious tea, but I cat afford it now