Tea
Iced tea
Iced tea is tea served chilled over ice, either brewed hot and cooled or brewed cold, and often sweetened or flavoured with fruit.
What it means for a café
Cheap to produce and easy to batch, which makes it one of the better-margin cold drinks a café can sell. Like cold brew it has to be prepared ahead, so it rewards forecasting and punishes optimism about the weather.
This page describes iced tea in general. It is not a description of any particular chain’s recipe, and the photograph is not of any named company’s product.
- Served
- Chilled, over ice
- Sweetened
- Commonly, varies by market
- Season
- Summer-weighted
More tea
Matcha latte
A matcha latte is powdered green tea whisked with water and combined with steamed milk, served hot or over ice.
Masala chai
Masala chai is black tea brewed with milk, sugar and spices such as cardamom, ginger, cinnamon and cloves.
Green tea
Green tea is tea made from unoxidised leaves, giving a lighter colour and a more vegetal flavour than black tea.
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