Solar Tea: Golden Harvest Beverage Tapper (1 gal.)

Bought this neat Sun Tea making device from D&B Supply in Ontario, Oregon. Actually bought two, as I'm trying to cut back on sodas and drink tea instead.

This is a very well designed basic solar tea maker. While using one, the other is outside making more solar tea.

The handle of course won't support the weight of the jar when full, it does allow one to grab and steady the container while hand transporting it. Wished the handle itself would fold over to the pouring end to allow a more secure closure of the spout's lid.

Although this is a great, economical container for making sun tea and other beverages, it does lack one feature I seen right off - and not seen on similar containers; there's no plastic insert to allow one to loosely add other items or various tea bags.
Instead of hanging tea bags over the jar edge and tightening the lid, which works well, what if someone wanted to add lemon, orange peels, cloves, etc. into the mix? There's no plastic insert that slides into the jar to hold various items & keep them from floating around freely. Ever try fishing out items you've added, or fetching several tea bags that came loose from the strings?
And the lid is made of plastic, shouldn't been too much to have created a plastic insert as well.

Perhaps someone will make a Solar Beverage Container that has such an insert? If you make such a device, please send me one to review - or tell me where to order two.

Rating 3 out of 5. Why? It's does what it needs to, that's about it. No in-jar accessory to add other items to the mix. The spout cover lifts up with ease, no locking tab, and the handle is more for empty use.