10 reasons you should be drinking pine needle tea (2024)

How to make pine needle tea

How to make pine needle tea

For our bloggers, the instructions were:

1. Collect pine needles
2. Build a fire (more to come on this in another post)
3. Light it
4. Boil water in a mess tin
5. Add pine needles and let them infuse in the water
6. Sieve and serve

Obviously, there’s no need to build a fire (but it was fun). Simply boil a kettle and pour over your pine needles, leave to infuse, then sieve and serve.

Enjoy your tea. Who knows, you might live to be 103 with 20:20 vision, a mind as sharp as a pine needle and no varicose veins. We’ll drink to that!

A word or two of caution: firstly, don’t try pine needle tea if you are pregnant. Secondly, most pine varieties can be used, but steer clear of Yew and Cypress which can sometimes be mistaken for pine. A good rule of thumb is to avoid flat needles. If in doubt, ask a Forest Ranger. Better still, book a cosy hot tub cabin at our Forest of Dean location and let Gerry teach you everything you need to know.