My wife bought me a Mister Coffee “ICED” TEA Maker. (Walmart).
Use whatever kind of tea you want in bags.
Fill the maker to below the fill level as the rest will just go onto your counter.
Fill (gallon?) pitcher with ice to the mark indicated (I add a little extra water to the pitcher).
Insert pitcher right up to maker, push on button.
A few minutes later (4 or 5?) VOILA! Iced Tea.
Now, I put a “splash” of “Nothing but Cranberry” juice (R.W. Knudsen) in a glass. I add a couple ounces of 100% apple juice (Great Value/Walmart) (to taste) and there you have it!
Faucetman’s Cranapple Iced Tea.
For next to nothing $ wise. No deposit, no return, no container waste.
Walmart has giant tea bags in the big box for bulk cheap. One bag per pitcher full.
Easy Peasy. Almost no sugar. (just from the apple juice as the cranberry juice is low in sugar and you only use a splash for color and flavor. Use too much cranberry, its way to tart.
Enjoy! (or not, I really don’t care)
Instead of buying a CO2 beverage system at Bevmo for $75, I bought a handheld bicycle CO2 cartridge tire inflator gizmo for $13 that does the same thing, plus it can be used to pump up basketballs & Volleyballs AND I modified it into a potato gun.
https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Innovations-G20310-Ultraflate-Inflator/dp/B01LXM2EXF