Sweet Tea.

[tp4tissue]

Southern Sweet Tea is insanity.

Their recipe uses has more sugar as kokokolo, and it's not even carbonated. 

[tavapataor]

Southern Sweet Tea is insanity.

Hell yeah it is. Insanely great.

Their recipe uses has more sugar as kokokolo, and it's not even carbonated. 

"How much sugar goes in sweet tea?" "Till it's sweet enough."

[noisyturtle]

Why do you think there's so many Southerners missing a foot? Aint the gators!

[fohat.digs]

I have known many people who order tea "half sweet and half unsweetened"

In "serve yourself" situations they go with less, maybe an inch of sweetened in the bottom and fill with unsweetened.

Personally, I avoid caffeine after 10:00am.

[tp4tissue]

So they make 1/4 sweet?

[fohat.digs]

About that. I drank sweet tea when I was a kid, but I don't like it now.

[Findecanor]

Their recipe uses has more sugar as kokokolo, and it's not even carbonated.

I looked this up. Twice as much sugar as Coca Cola... Yikes.

BTW. Something I can recommend: Cold-brew a bag of Earl Grey in a large glass of Coca Cola for five minutes. Hold it down with a long spoon, and then fish it out.

[tp4tissue]

What if you microwave the earl gray in say 50ml of water, then let it cool, and add to cococolo.

[Findecanor]

What if you microwave the earl gray in say 50ml of water, then let it cool, and add to cococolo.

Brewing the tea in hot water would release other flavours you won't get when you cold-brew.
Good question: I'm going to try it. A tea bag could release microplastics, so I'm using tea leaves.

Edit: Need 75 ml of water to get 50 ml tea because the leaves absorb water.

Edit 2: The result was bitter. Cold brew tasted better. Perhaps the point is not the taste of tea but the bergamot oil in Earl Grey.

[tp4tissue]

This were the secret formula from that article way back.

Seems like essential oils is mainly what they'd be using.

Adding additional would be like a lean,  For example, Car, Blue-Car.

Flavour Solution A

    Lemon oil: 45.8 ml
    Lime oil: 36.5 ml
    Tea tree oil: 8 ml
    Cassia cinnamon oil: 4.5 ml
    Nutmeg oil: 2.7 ml
    Orange oil: 1.2 ml
    Coriander oil: 0.7 ml
    Fenchol: 0.6 ml

Dilute 20 ml of the combined solution to one litre using 95% ethanol, bottle, and allow to age for at least 24 hours.

Flavour solution B

    Durkee caramel colour: 190 ml
    Glycerin: 160 g
    Phosphoric acid (85% concentration): 45 ml
    Vinegar (5% acidity): 10 ml
    Vanilla extract: 10 ml
    Wine tannins: 10 g
    Caffeine: 9.65 g

To make one litre of Coca Cola replica:

    Mix 104g of sugar in just enough water to dissolve (100–200ml).
    Add 1ml of diluted 'flavour solution A' and 10ml of 'flavour solution B'.
    Heat in the microwave until almost boiling and allow to cool completely.
    Dilute to 1L with cold sparkling water.

[Sniping]

I’ve been making a lot of HK style lemon tea lately. Pretty similar stuff. I brew 6-8 black tea bags in a liter of water, cut lemon slices and soak lemon peels in sugar, add 25g sugar to the liter of tea, and combine the tea and lemon. Best southern sweet tea variation I’ve had is watermelon sweet tea. So good.