How to Make Homemade Mint Tea
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2020
- Welcome back to Beyond the Bag. Today we are going to look at how to make homemade mint tea. I am going to show you how to go from fresh live mint to this tasty homemade tea.
While the dried form of this tea is quite good, the fresh version takes things to a whole new level. To make this you will need a source of fresh mint. I have a fair-sized bush of it growing right outside my step. One nice or not so nice thing about growing mint is its prolific rate of spreading. I would recommend planting it in a pot or an area where you don’t mind it taking over quite a bit.
Ideally, you want a healthy mint plant relatively free of discolored or sickly leaves. When picking from a mint plant, I recommend choosing younger stems with a good number of leaves trying to avoid damaged or discolored leaves. You can use scissors or a knife for this process, but as I am demonstrating, your hands work just fine as well. Take a bit more than you think you will need, once we de-stem and chop them up they will be much smaller.
Next, we are going to remove the good leaves from the stems. I would make 2 piles, one of the good leaves without damage or discoloration and another with the stems, flowers, bad leaves and anything else we don’t want going into the tea. Once you are finished de-stemming and sorting, discard everything but the good leaves.
Next, we are going to bring together the leaves and we are going to take a knife and dice them finely. Try to do this gently without bruising or crushing the leaves. This takes a soft but firm touch, so don’t feel pressure to rush things. The reason we are dicing the leaves is to increase the surface area of the leaves and create freshly cut edges. The freshly cut edges allow for the liquids inside the leaves to bleed into the hot water. This is what separates the fresh and dried forms of this tea.
Once the leaves are diced it is time to steep them. I am going to be using this glass teapot with a metal mesh infuser. We are going to add the fresh leaves to the infuser and then add some hot water. Now we are going to let this sit for at least 5 min but as long as your water is staying hot you can easily take it all the way to 15 plus minutes. Peppermint won’t go bitter and thus the tea will only get stronger with time. Once the tea has reached a sufficient level of steeping it is ready to serve. Cheers!
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So I'm 13 and I planted a mint plant a while back. I had another harvest before this one, but this one is waay bigger. I grew it specifically for tea, and it smells SO good.
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Great to hear this year I have also added spearmint for more joys Keep growing and enjoy
Awesome
I was surprised when I learned that most herbs grow like weeds, you’ll have more than you know what to do with eventually
@@Gk22632 I still can’t get my mint to grow
Oh my gosh... his voice was so smoothing... tks for the info
You're welcome!
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Get out more!
@@johnmc3862 😂
Prolific! Great word! This is the first UA-cam video that did not smirk out the word “ invasive”.
Mint is prolific or abundant. Thank you for your mint manners. I greatly appreciated that. 🌿 I appreciate mint in the garden.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I never knew I needed the soothing voice of Will Forte to teach me about tea, but here I am. 😎🤜🏼🤛🏼
I came for a quick tutorial wasn't expecting the extremely relaxing de-stressing video. Thank you!
mint tea always helps me with nausea and stomach issues. thank u for this video
You're welcome 😊 Cheers!
I’m surprised you don’t have way more subscribers. This was incredibly relaxing and informative. Thank you for this. I’m growing spearmint instead of peppermint and will soon make tea with it for the first time.
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video! Enjoy that new mint tea! Cheers!!
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Hello, have you tried a cup of tea made from a plant that looks just like mint called LANTANA CAMARA or another LANTANA PLANT ??
What a lovely informative, video! I like your passion and attentiveness throughout
Thank you for explaining thoroughly the steps in making good mint tea. This is the best explanation I was looking for. Love the name, Beyond the Bag! 😊
Why is his voice so calming 😫
Thanks so much for your video! I watched several videos on making peppermint tea and yours is the first video that gave me the most thorough explanation! No one else said for how long to boil the tea and it’s very good to know that peppermint does not get better the longer you boil it. Also, everyone else just put the leaves in a whole without chopping. It makes more sense that you would get more of the good properties by chopping it up. Thanks again!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a great video! Exactly what I was looking for!
Glad it was helpful!
Great & calming video! Very informative! Thank you! I’m growing Sweet Mint & will try this method of making fresh mint tea! 👍
The music was so soothing and relaxing it almost put me to sleep. Thank you.
Your Welcome! Cheers!
thanks, mt grandma had alot of mint and i took and i didnt know what do with it, and with the help of you i made tea
watching this as i made my first very own mint tea for me n my roommates haven’t tasted … it’s cooling down but imagine it’ll taste great
cool coffee pot and instructions! Thanks for sharing thing I am going to fix that pot of tea!
Enjoy!
This video is sooo relaxing needed this after a rough day 😅
what a peaceful video
Very nice and meditative video. Adds to the tea experience actually and makes me realize the whole process from harvest to drinking is part of the "tea ceremony." I will thank the leaves for their sacrifice. I'm going to try some strawberry mint from a pot I've been growing. I don't know why, but I've never made fresh mint tea before. Thanks for your easy encouraging instructions.
Thanks! Cheers!
Lovely video
I usually add mint to green tea i but I didn’t know you could make just mint tea on its own
Thank you 🙏
You're back!!!!!
I was here for the tea, but I am sticking around because of the peace your voice gave me, I guess call it audio remedy.
Thank you, very good demonstration😊👍
Glad it was helpful!
I grow my mint in a pot,and leace it in a window where sunlight can get to it ,but not bugs
I been in Morocco there we ofter drink this nice
tea here you show us to prepare it werry well must say Bravissimo ☆☆☆☆☆
I happen to have the same glass tea pot. Probably a common model or something, exported to many store branches/tea sellers. :)
Lol, It is just from IKEA. So I am not too surprised. Thanks for watching!
@@BeyondtheBag You're welcome I guess, haha. :)
You take your tea very seriously lol 😂. Thanks for the video !
Hi Brother ..I am from India,Thank you very much for presenting nicely.
I live in the Northeast US, so there's a lot of wintergreen growing in the woods behind my house. I routinely harvest both the leaves and the berries for tea, and it tastes so much better than the store-bought brands.
I didn't plant any of it, it just is indigenous to the area.
Wonderful !
Thank you! Cheers!
nice I'm plant herbs right now and I so want to make my own tea with them mint and lemon balm
I JUST FELL ASLEEP TO THIS VOICE LOL
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Falling asleep 😂😂
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
"It takes a soft but firm touch, so so don't feel pressure to rush things"
Thank you ❤️
I love how you said hot and not "boiling" water.
Lovely 🌹
Thank you 4 yr video
Great video !
Thanks!
feel like I just walked into a Aromatherapy/meditation session XD. some really good info here though, thanks
I have a batch of tea growing off my back porch. I make mint tea a couple times a week and sure don't do it like this
I poor boiling water to just cover the bunch , stems and all. I muddle it and let it step about 20 minutes. Then fill the pitcher up and sweeten to taste.
Thanks for sharing your video Recipe of honey mints tea host new friends here
Thanks and welcome
This is Great!
Nice cup
Great
Peppermint jam is bomboliusus on any toast
1 part juice with 1 part sugar
Count how much liquid you have to count of sugar you add
Boil till sugar desovled ,set for 5 mins, pour in jar
24 hr later enjoy.
Do you not need any gelatine, or something to make it a jelly ?
thank you 👍
Cheers!
Well I just messed mine up I bought a bunch through the whole thing in there and boiled it🤷♀️ i’ll do it this way next time👍🏽
I listen to this mint tea song & music for sleep
This is such a calming video to watch. Thank you! I'm really excited to make my own tea! I do have a question though: is it possible to save this tea over night for the morning?
because it doesn't get bitter with extended steeping time, you can leave this one over night.
Thanks for the video. I usually step mine for 15 minutes but I don’t chop/cut it- I will definitely try this method
Did you wash the mint before you cut it? If so, how many times?
Is the process identical for other types of mint, such as Egyptian mint, where the leaves are flat the edges are more fragile?
Swear I’m about to crash out why am I so relaxed 😴 I’m going to make a brew 🤔
your voice is so soothing, ugh
Thank you! Cheers!
i feel im in a yoga class, did wake up just in time to see the end lol
Cheers!
Great video! Can you link where you got the tea pot?
IKEA
Can I mix the types of mints? I have a lot of different mint plants, but none of them are that big. 🙂
Thanks for sharing. That was lovely. 👍😁❤️ I wonder if I can use my French press kettle to achieve the same results?
Yes it can, cheers!
I underestimated how fast they would grow in my garden and they took over my planter box with strawberries I wonder if they'll cross pollinate
Yes, mint can go a bit crazy.
What effects of using stems in?
can i use “salvia hot lips” mint plant?
I’m 9 and I love mint tea
Is there a way to make the tea a more golden color- adding a blend of other types of leaves perhaps? I sometimes like to see a golden color tea in my cup. Any suggestions? Thank you for your consideration.
If you add a bit of another tea into the mix that steeps a bit darker it will help. For herbals, basil is a good include. You can also use a bit of black tea, but that will add some bitterness. Thank you for your question, I hope that helps!
Try to add a bit of cinnamon. It gives amazing flavour along with mint.
Me too!
can't wait for my mint to grow. i started with seeds and they die so easily after sprouting. i think the conditions are harsh in my area. it's too hot but i still need sunlight. after a lot of attempts, i grew tired. any advice?
10 mins after watching the video I', still in a stupor ..... I might never move again.
Hi, I really like your relaxing videos, they are very informative. I am trying to start a sensory gardening website and currently making content so it doesn't look bare. I want to help people destress in the garden and to help disabled people get out into the garden. One topic I am writing is about drinking tea in the garden, would I be able to use your link on my website pls? I have no clue if I need to ask permission to do this but thought it would at least be polite, it will be a link that would open a new tap with your video on youtube.
Absolutely, feel free to link away!
So you don't wash/clean the leaves off first?
Nice video but how much mint leaves to water?
Would I be able to make a big batch and save in in my fridge. I do prefer it cold but I don’t know if it’ll taste the same
Absolutely. Chilling a tea can lighten the flavor a bit, but the mint would be super refreshing! Cheers!
Drip off fun.
Can anyone please tell me what's mint leave in Yoruba
damn, i'm watching this video right now. I have a mint leaf plant but the shape is different from the one in the video, maybe a different type. Can all types of mint be made into tea? And can I add a little sugar when brewing it? Thank you.
Yes, all mints can be used. Cheers!
I don't have a teapot like that, so I'll just add some tea leaves to a cup of hot water and strain them out, I guess.
All i needed to know was weather raw tea leaves needed to be crushed or cut up to improve steeping. For some reason not even google would show me an answer for that, but i thought being cut would help.
Yes, cutting the leaves will give you a better result! Cheers!
Thank you
How can we plant sir
Excuse me, May I please ask you a question ? Do we get the same result using fresh herbs and dried herbs ? I don’t have an idea why we normally dry the herbs. Thank you so much in advance 😅😅
Sure thing! Dried herbs are favored because of their long shelf life and ease of transport. In most cases they are able to match most of the flavor of fresh leaves, I would say about 80% in my experience. Fresh leaves will always produce more flavor and steep better because the flavor compounds in the leaf are at least partially in a liquid form. With dry leaves the steeping water has to reconstitute the flavor compounds before they enter the tea. Thank you for the good question! Cheers!
@@BeyondtheBag Try steeping fresh Camellia, lol.
I've actually done that with Camellia japonica twice, not such intriguing results to be honest.
Of course highly depends on the specific herb in question, many herbs highly develop in their volatiles when dried & or cured. Dried herb can have relatively different terpene profiles e.g. , when analysed through gas chromatography. (In laymans terms: determining the concentrations of specific compounds.)
And others, like real tea, get many of their unique flavour profiles, due to the processing. Tea leaves don't taste like plums, leather, dry wood, earthy forest floors & peaches all on their own. There's breaking down enzymes (like pan baking or steaming green teas), oxidation by rolling the leaves (oolong & black), post-fermenting (pu'ers), etc.
(Camellias, usually Camellia sinensis, but others like Camellia taliensis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_taliensis , Camellia crassicolumna -> used for caffeine free pu'ers, how cool's that? , etc. are also used for 'tea' production)
Just picking some tea leaves and steeping them in hot water, won't give you much satisfying results. :)
The closest tea produced to that is white tea.
In it's most basic form (gradations - as white tea is categorized by bud to leaf ratio & size, rather then cultivar, altitude, tea plant/tree age & location as with other tea varieties: yinzhen are the buds, mu dan are buds and leaves, shou mei is just leaves)
we get white tea.
White tea is very slightly oxidized, as it doesn't get fixed by heating like green teas, hence the enzymes can react. White tea is just: picking, withering, drying under the sun. (or on mechanical rollers that heat to max 50 degrees celsius)
Hence white tea is basically unprocessed. *But still dried.*
Originally it was marketed to the west as black tea, as white tea has no heating process that fixes/breaks the enzymatic activity. Putting it closer to the definition of a black tea in that sense, then to a green tea. Although the flavour profile of white teas tend to be much lighter/less bold as black.
But yet very complex, I love the flavour profiles of white teas in general, nutty, sweet (I've had a purple-red coloured Ye Sheng that tasted like pears and was so sweet it tasted like if there was actual honey-sugar put in there! Crazy stuff, never thought tea could taste that sweet.), etc.
Pigmented white tea, from var. Assamica pu'er trees growing in Yunnan.
Just to show the naming is just that, a categorization according to its processing (or lack thereof).
There's no actual category for purple tea as there is for black, green, yellow, white, oolong, post-fermented. It's just natural pigmentation. Like red cabbage.
Only in the last 2 decades did Chinese tea culture pick up on white tea. Chinese like aged tea (For good reasons, they know & exerience tea in a different way as the west. :) ) and that created a very recent surge in white tea craze. Not just in the west.
Before that a good 90% or more of white tea (Relatively recent invention, less then 2 centuries or so, how crazy is that, the least amount of processing, yet the latest tea variety to come on the market?) was exported.
Because of it's lack of processing, it's viable for aging.
Aged white teas have recently become a thing in the higher end tea world. Also renowned for its more psychoactive properties.
I write a lot, but I'm pretty interested in teas & herbs.
I happen to have followed a course of a year in herbalism. I'm mostly interested in (active) compounds found throughout the plant kingdom, especially volatiles like terpenes.
And their pharmacological implications & effects.
Neurotransmitters, agonistic/antagonistic affinities, allosteric modulators, ligands, ...; sounds difficult, but everyone has their world of interest I guess. :)
Just like how I'm amazed by physicists/mathematicians solving differential equations as if it's nothing.
But I have no college or university degree or something. Mostly personal interest.
Can you put sugar in it?
Thank you for the video. But I advise from closing your eyes while listening to this video. I astroprojected into a DMT state where I saw a mayan child staring right back to me. What tea did I make?
Nice video. Just fwiw: you need to sharpen your knife, as it's not slicing cleanly (look how the cuts are not separating as they should. A properly sharp knife will slice the leaves cleanly and effortlessly.) Also, you are not "dicing," which creates, well.....dice-shaped veggies, etc. I'd just say "slice," or "cut up." That said, thank you! I'll try the tea for sure.
I don't have a glass tea pot
You can wash it 🎉🎉
Melbourne
Is this Sheldon cooper?
Where u get the pot
Ikea, it is the RIKLIG
what kind of kettle do u have ? :)
I have just a basic electric one. Cheers!
Hello beyond bag
Hello 😊
Thankyou .....but the funeral music was a bit disconcerting
I've citrused my travel water funnel grave oye prune
r u from Ireland? If I may know??..🌻
Sadly, I am not.
@@BeyondtheBag ic, ok..tnx for ur vid.. had my 1st tea mint today
I want to sleep while listening
I was definitely tipping off too.
spearmint?
Is it the same
His voice would put you to sleep
Cheers!
This guy is speaking like english text book
I feel like I'm in kindergarten listening to his voice..
plz help I got concerned I drink 3 cups daily I put 1 tablespoon of mint with every cup would hurt my testosterone? researches got me confused
Good video on 1.5x speed.
Video starts from 3:00 thank me later
Lol i just dumped it in the boiled water.
Thank you... bcuz I never made tea with leaves, I heard it's Healthier than tea bags..
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