I love that stuff too! You could just go with something inexpensive like this. They sell it at just about every Asian grocery store, too. Throw the tea in a pitcher of cold water in the fridge overnight, then strain out the leaves in the morning. For cold brew, I use around 12g per L of water. If you don't have a scale, 1 tsp per 8 oz should work.
They use vitamin c (ascorbic acid) as a preservative, so if you're trying to make it as close as possible, you could try adding a pinch of citric or ascorbic acid.
Jasmine for dayzzz
Here's my recipe
-1/2 cup kombucha starter tea -1/2 cup honey -3 cups gree tea -(1½ cup hot water -1½ tbsp loose leaf jasmine green tea -1½ cup cold water -5 minutes brewing time)
I have Missouri honey on hand and the tea is super active! I leave it for 2 days during F2 for super fuzziness!!
I'm going to be pausing Jun brewing for a while now that I'm low on honey and honey is super expensive. 😭
Good luck on your Jun journey if you decided to embark on one! 🙂
light soy sauce is what is sold in major supermarkets. The places near me sell tins of tea like this. If it is a good asian market they should have multiple varieties of loose leaf tea.
Possibly Sunflower Jasmine. It's essentially the Lipton of China.
at risk of sounding like a tea snob i suggest going loose leaf. not for any health reason, but because typically the prebagged tea is the lowest possible grade that people from asia don't want to eat and tastes pretty bad. there are some in a similar price range like this one or this one. imo even these cheap ones taste good without additions like sugar, which can't be said for the cheaper coffees.
I can do green teas. I mostly drink this very plain green jasmine tea, it is very basic and does not bother me. I put a big pinch of the tea in a mug of hot water. A can lasts me a long time.
https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Jasmine-Tea-LB-454/dp/B000NIHZMU
Is it this stuff?
https://www.amazon.com/Sunflower-Jasmine-Tea-LB-454/dp/B000NIHZMU
Have you tried this one? Pretty good tea for the price.
Loose leaf tea is great! It's so much better. Bigger leaves and less fine particles (fannings) mean it will be less bitter. Those little pieces steep really quickly, and make it bitter and almost metallic.
There's also temperature and steep time that you have to look out for, and adjust to your taste. Some greens only need 15 seconds of steeping in 160f water, while some blacks are best in 200f for 2-3 minutes.
I didn't know at first, but color varies a lot. A green can be ready when it's almost totally clear, or a dark green color, but most will be a yellow color (the result is often called the liquor or broth).
One of my favorites is an irish breakfast tea, with like a tablespoon full of leaves for a really strong but not at all bitter tea.
Sometimes people will intentionally steep tea for a long time, then add warm water to dilute it.
Check out r/tea, it's the coolest and most relaxed sub ever. "Oh, you like cheap lipton tea bags? That's cool, whatever you like!".
Tea balls suck, by the way. They don't let the leaves expand and mix evenly.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01ABVM226/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This is what I use, and it's great.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/ya/ref=oh_aui_i_sh_post_o17?ie=UTF8&ac=od&ii=&ij=&noi=&of=&oi=&oid=105-5075213-2947460 This is my mug. The infuser came broken, but it's great watching the water mix and change color.
Edit: These are some of my favorites that I've gotten off Amazon
This is some of the best Jasmine tea I've had, and it's super cheap. I got mine for $8.
This is some really good mint tea, good balance, really refreshing.
This is a good oolong, which is really good and way different from most other teas. It's roasted, which gives it a unique flavor. This is the black dragon (Oolong is actually Chinese for black dragon), which tastes more like a black, but they also have a green dragon oolong that is more green, if that's your preference.
That's just what I've gotten from Amazon, but the best stuff I've gotten is from The Devotea. They had a crazy 75% off sale so I just bought some of everything, and it was all consistently very good, very high quality.
This kettle has saved me a lot of trouble, it works really well once you figure it out, and you don't have to worry about boiling water and letting it sit for 3 minutes or something, you just push the button a couple times to choose the temperature.
I recently tried out this Jasmine tea on Amazon and have been quite pleased. Seems to be favored well in the reviews as well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NIHZMU/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_czmKvbNNNB52R