Prepared & mixed

Fruit & regional

Fruit teas and regionally distinctive preparations that do not fit the milk-tea or latte formats. Thai Iced Tea (cha yen) is a specific drink: strong brewed Thai tea, often with orange coloring, condensed milk, and ice. Fruit teas are a loose category covering cold-brew or blended preparations where fruit flavor dominates the tea base. What unites this family is regional specificity or a format where tea is subordinate to the overall drink character.

teabert, the tealytics teapot, keeper of the kettle

This is the postcard shelf, Thai iced tea with its condensed milk and fruity cold brews, where the whole drink is the point and the leaf plays support. In most of these the tea has the job of a bass player in a band: hardly anyone notices it until it is missing.

Styles in this family

Fruit Tea

Fruit tea, in the bubble-tea-shop sense, is a refreshing, dairy-free drink that combines brewed tea with fruit juice and often pieces of fresh fruit, served…

Thai Tea

Thai tea, known in Thailand as cha yen ('cold tea'), is a strong, sweet iced drink of black tea with condensed and evaporated milk, famous for its bright orange…