This lemon iced tea is the perfect, refreshing beverage for a party, outdoor event, or just to keep in the fridge! It’s lightly sweetened (but not too sweet).And it has great lemon flavor that’s balanced by an extra ingredient—the juice of a couple sweet clementines!  The Search for the Perfect Lemon Iced Tea Me and iced tea go way back.When fountain drinks were still a thing that I might indulge in every now and again (definitely a mark of the 90s for me), my go-to was always either Brisk lemon iced tea or whatever peach/raspberry tea they had on offer.

It was SO sweet, I watered it down a little, even as a kid! I was first confronted with the amount of sugar that must have been in that 20-ounce cup when I was at a T.G.I Friday’s with a hankering for iced tea.They only had unsweetened.“Just put some sugar packets in it,” my aunt told me.

Well, I did…and it seemed like no matter how many packets I threw in there, it just wasn’t sweet enough.  Obviously, my sugar tolerance has changed quite a bit since my neon-leggings-wearing, cartoon-watching 9-year-old days.But my love for iced tea hasn’t!  This lemon iced tea recipe hits all the right notes for me.It tastes like a fresher, healthier, WAY less sweet but still soul-satisfying, thirst-quenching version of the Brisk of days past.

It’s lightly sweet and lemon-forward without being sour or bitter.  I think the key is the addition of the juice of a couple clementines.(You could al

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