

Whether you’re looking for fruity ales or chocolatey stouts, this list of the 21 best sweet beers has something sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. Stir in all other ingredients except for yeast. Keep all pulp in straining bag (if required), tie and put into fermentor. Chop, smash, or crush fruit and strain into primary fermentor. Nonetheless, I used the same amount of steeping time, and quantities of sugar and water as with the orange pekoe batch. Trying to figure out which brand of beer to buy adds a whole other level of complexity to your choice, so we’ve provided a list of the best sweet beers out there for you to try. Wash fruit, remove stones and bruised parts. To get a flavorful Sweet Mint Tea with fresh leaves, I used 3 cups of fresh mint leaves, which would roughly translate to 1 cup of dried (or slightly more than three times the amount of mint as black tea) for full mint flavor. Since we had so much mint in the garden, I made the second batch solely with mint, and no black tea, creating a Sweet Mint Tea reminiscent of the tea that’s ceremoniously poured at all the couscous restaurants in Paris, for example, and at some Middle Eastern restaurants here in the States as well. Greater dilution would be wise for anyone concerned about their evening caffeine intake-this was very strong black tea! Delicious and refreshing! I felt I could have used less tea or more water, since the resulting tea was strong.

I generously infused the fresh mint from our garden into the finished sweet tea before serving and provided lemons on the side. I steeped for precisely the 30 minutes specified and used precisely the 3/4 cup sugar and 3 quarts (or 12 cups) of water for the sugar syrup.

The first I made with the orange pekoe tea. I made two batches of this sweet tea recipe for a large summer dinner, and both easily qualify as a Testers Choice. Classic pumpkin spices and a little creativity come together in an usual pumpkin recipe that's sure to be a conversation starter.
