Sun Coffee

[Catamaul]

I share this with all of the coffee drinkers out there. Enjoy if you will.

I have been quite fond of the "sun tea" lately. Apparently though, steeping tea releases tanic acid from the tea leaf (I have heard) that can give a bitter taste that is not as apparent in sun tea.

Drinking about 20 cups of coffee a day, I decided I needed something new, so I first made my switch to black coffee. While pondering the bitterness of the coffee, I thought it would be cool to try and make it in the sun like sun tea.

I put two filters together, with coffee in the middle, and stapled them into a bag of sorts. Threw two of those in my sun pitcher/jar, and in about 3 hours, sun coffee was born.

Cold over ice, tastes more like tea than coffee, but has a great nutty coffee flavah.

I have now discovered that Maxwell House makes pre bagged coffee to throw in your pot (like a big tea bag). Works very well for the sun coffee method.

** used nutty and teabag in the same post. heh

[DarkWolfe]

You sound like your coffe honestly

[Deacon]

What, that's he's gota great nutty flavah? How...how would you know that?

Posted Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:15 pm:

By the way, when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be some novelty item released by Sun Microsystems as a play on their Java technology.

[DarkWolfe]

[quote="Deacon";p="517948"]What, that's he's gota great nutty flavah? How...how would you know that?

Posted Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:15 pm:

By the way, when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be some novelty item released by Sun Microsystems as a play on their Java technology.[/quote]

You know whats even sadder. I thought the same thing, but what too ashamed to say it.

[Rfairney]

.. same again, Java Coffee...
but then consider where you are.
would you really be surprised that most people so far thought that ?

[sneaky ninja]

Ummmm...20 cups of coffee a day? WOW

[edge]

I love me some coffee. And I also love me some sun tea. So I'm definitly going to try this.

[DarkWolfe]

So can someone explain to me what exactlly is sun tea?

[gravity]

I am completely confused on the concept of what a sun jar is.

But then again, I am also completely confused on the subject of what the sun is as well.

[kaiju01]

Well, I just usually make sun tea in a regular big ole jar/jug. You put a bunch of tea bags in the water, leave it sitting in the sun for ever, and then add sugar to taste.

So I suspect a sun jar is a jar placed in the sun for tea and nothing more.

[gravity]

So you cook things in teh sun? That sounds really.... odd.

/me makes mental note to try it in Arizona.

So.... what flavor of tea bag works best for this sorta thing?

[kaiju01]

I think my family always used maybe 10 black tea bags (generic or Lipton's) in a big ole jar. (Actually, a sun jar might already have the spigot/tap at the bottom, like a lemonade jar).

You can also throw in mint leaves or any flavored herb tea bags you want. Most people then sugar the hell out of it. Sun tea is ice tea, it's not that glamorous.

[edge]

Basically, you take a large container of some kind, clear glass, and fill it with water and put teabags in it. Then you put it in the sun on a warm day, and that's how the tea gets made, instead of using already heated water. It's really very good.

My roommate has a big sun tea jar that we use. Except I can't make coffee in it...he hates coffee...so I'll probably just use my decanter for the coffee.

[Infin8Cyn]

I may have to try this...

[Blaze]

That's how my Grandma always used to make Ice Tea. Of course, I was never much of an ice tea fan, so I don't know that it helped.