The YouTube Adventure Continues: Cold Brew Tea & the Quest for Perfection

I recently made a new YouTube video all about how to brew cold brew tea. And honestly? I think it’s a good one. I believe this video will grow in popularity over time—especially since cold brew tea becomes a hot topic (pun intended) every summer or whenever the weather starts heating up.

Cold brewing is a wonderfully simple and slightly counterintuitive method: just add tea leaves to cold water and stick it in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours. That’s it. But the results? Smooth, sweet, and refreshing. It brings out flavors in the tea that you don’t typically get from hot brewing. Cold brewing naturally highlights the sweetness while softening or removing the tannins, bitterness, and astringency.

Think of it like the matcha latte version of a tea—creamy, soft, and dessert-like—but without adding any milk or sugar. When you use the right tea, it tastes like you did. Pretty magical.

So this video covers all that. Brewing techniques, what teas work best, what gear you need, and we even take you on a little tea adventure to a mountain lake. It was going great—until I realized I had accidentally uploaded a version that included… let’s just say, some wildly inappropriate comments from one of my kids (I won’t name names, but if you know, you know).

Naturally, I was horrified. I used YouTube’s editor to trim out the audio, but as I watched the video again, I noticed a few other mistakes I couldn’t fix without re-uploading the whole thing. That was a tough call—because the original upload was doing really well. In fact, YouTube ranked it #1 out of my last 10 videos, which is the dream. Supposedly, you want each new video to outperform your previous ones, and this one was doing exactly that.

Still, I couldn’t leave it up with the errors. So I pulled it, fixed it, and re-uploaded a clean version. The downside? I lost all that early momentum in the algorithm, and now it’s ranking #9 instead of #1. But honestly—I still feel like I made the right call.

I'm genuinely excited about this video’s long-term potential, and I hope you’ll give it a watch, share it with your friends, and hit that like and subscribe button. Not just because I need validation (although… I do), but because I want to make content that actually brings value to your tea journey.

Please let me know what you think. I’ll be forever grateful.

Here’s the video: