bottomrung
August 18th, 2006, 06:41 PM
I am a brewed Iced Tea Freak, I can sit and drink iced tea with the best of them, until the last dog goes home. Problem is I have yet to be served good tasting iced tea on a cruise ship. I believe it all comes prepackaged, which means its not brewed on board.
When visiting ports of call I dare not order Iced Tea due to the water or ice. I don't know if the establishmemnt we are dinning at brought the water temp high enough to kil all bacteria. All this means I have to go for a week without a good hit of BREWED ICED TEA.
Has anyone over come this one and only negative while cruising?
FRANKIEDNYC
August 18th, 2006, 07:02 PM
:) Im an iced tea drinker too I agree the ice tea served aboard ship is definitely lacking. My wife and I always bring our travel mugs with us. You could bring a large travel mug with you and brew tea in it let it sit an hour or two and than fill it with ice. VOILA
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Krazy Kruizers
August 19th, 2006, 07:06 AM
What I have done in the past is to order a hot tea. They will bring you the box of tea bags to choose from - lots of choices. Then I brew it myself. I also ask for a big glass of ice only. Thus I have my own iced tea at dinner.
At breakfast and lunch in the Lido you can do this on your own.
CCCM
August 19th, 2006, 05:12 PM
I know it is not as good as home brewed, but have you tried Lipton Cold Brew? I use it at work during the day.
hammybee
August 19th, 2006, 07:51 PM
And to think, I thought HAL's ice tea was freshly brewed........
I learn something new on this board every day.
tomc
August 19th, 2006, 10:27 PM
It's hard enough making regular tea with their not-boiling water. But I manage to do a good-enough job and the water is kept quite hot, so I have little to complain about.