Popular Starbucks Black Tea And How They Are Prepared | Recipe

Tea is lovely and tastes good. With low caffeine, I love having a cup of tea whenever I go to Starbucks or make a copycat at home.

The good thing you will love is Starbucks black tea drinks are available in a wide variety. Whether you love black tea as it is or with customizations, it’s a great drink.

When you want to enjoy black tea, ride with me as we explore the available options at Starbucks.

Some facts about Starbucks black tea

• Black tea contains caffeine. There is no decaf tea; hence all tea-based drinks have caffeine.
• You can order a black tea-based drink from tea concentrate or tea bags
• Most of the teas at Starbucks are sweetened except for chai lattes
• Hot and iced teas are brewed on demand. Your order is freshly prepared from fresh tea bags.
• Black tea is consumed with or without sugar. The sweetener, in this case, is optional.
• Starbucks have bottled black teas;

Official black tea on Starbucks menu

1. Earl Grey Tea
2. London Fog Latte
3. Royal English Breakfast Tea
4. Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte
5. Iced Black Tea
6. Iced Black Tea Lemonade
7. Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea
8. Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte
9. Iced Chai Tea Latte
10. Teavana Mango Black Tea
11. Chai Tea
12. Chai Tea Latte
13. Iced Guava Black Tea

Starbucks hot black tea

Starbucks offers hot versions of hot tea in their outlets daily. The drinks are usually offered in short, Tall, Grande, and venti.

The brewing of hot Starbucks teas is instant through tea bags. This is unlike in cold drinks that use tea concentrate.

You might be wondering what brand of tea does Starbucks uses. Well, Starbucks uses Teavana tea bags for all their hot tea drinks.

Depending on your likings, there are different flavors available for black teas. Typically, available ones are:

1. Organic Black Tea
2. Royal English Breakfast
3. Earl Grey

Making hot tea isn’t complicated since you need hot water and tea bags. Once you have the teabags, brewing your drink will take you about 5 minutes.

The number of tea bags differs depending on the cup size.

Starbucks iced black tea

Iced versions are available in four cup sizes, Short, Tall, Grande, Venti, and Trenta.

 Unlike hot teas, the iced version is prepared from pre-prepared concentrate.

Usually, Starbucks prepares a concentrated brew in advance. Using industrial scale tea bags and triple filtered water, they make a concentrate that is used to make iced black tea drinks.

You might wonder what tea Starbucks uses in concentrate production. They use blended black tea, which results in a rich  flavor.

For iced tea lovers, this doesn’t need tea bags. Instead, baristas add concentrate into a cup, add water and shake the mixture in ice.

You can ask the barista to add lemonade when you want flavored tea like Starbucks black tea lemonade. This will result in tasty iced black tea lemonade.

Also, there are other variations like Iced Guava Black Tea which is extra refreshing.

Like hot black teas, iced tea also comes with a different number of pumps of tea syrup.
You might be wondering how to make Starbucks black tea lemonade at home. It is easy since all the ingredients are available in your local store.

Starbucks tea lattes

Apart from plain teas, you can enjoy chai lattes at Starbucks. The good thing is you can order hot or cold lattes.

The most popular latte is the Starbucks Chai latte. You can order hot or iced versions depending on the season.

Chai latte is made from black tea concentrate and milk.

Others lattes include:

• Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte is a mixture of Royal English Breakfast Tea latte, cane sweetener, and milk.
• London Fog Tea Latte is made from Earl Grey tea bags, milk, and vanilla syrup.

 Iced chai lattes are made from chai concentrate, while hot lattes are made from brewed tea bags. Since chai concentrate is sweetened, all iced Starbucks lattes are sweet.

For less sweet lattes, ask for lattes made from tea bags.

Teavana Bottles Black Tea

Teavana is ready to drink black tea infusion available in different Starbucks stores.

The black tea version of Teavana is mango flavored and available in 14.5 fl oz providing 100 calories.

Starbucks black tea caffeine

Does Starbucks black tea have caffeine? Definitely, they have caffeine. Black tea is a known source of caffeine; therefore, you can expect the drinks to provide some level of caffeine.

Although they have caffeine, not as much as in coffee, here is a summary of caffeine content in black tea drinks in 16 oz Grande cups.

Starbucks tea nutrition

You might be wondering whether the black drinks are healthy to drink. Most are beneficial and offer no calories. For instance, you might be asking how many calories in Starbucks black tea.

The following table offers insight on calories in the black teas in a 16oz Grande cup.

Questions you might have

Summary

Starbucks black tea drinks are super refreshing and appealing. Whether you want a summer or winter drink, you can choose iced or hot brewed tea.

Apart from getting into Starbucks, you can also learn how to have Starbucks black iced tea at home, among other black tea recipes.

Starbucks Black Tea Recipe

Recipe by Scarlett JonesCourse: Drinks

Prep time

5

minutes

Cooking time

1

minute

Calories

25

kcal

Yield

16

oz

Total time

6

minutes

This simple recipe is easy to follow and ensures you make super black iced tea similar to Starbucks.

Ingredients

• ½ cup Lemonade

• ½ cup Water

• Ice cubes

• 2 fresh Teabags (black tea)

Directions

• Heat water under medium heat to simmering point (maintain 190 Fahrenheit)
• Add the tea bags and simmer for 3 minutes while the teapot is covered
• Remove the tea bags and let the steeped tea cool
• Put ice into a cocktail shaker, followed by tea and lemonade. Shake for 30 seconds.

Notes

• Avoid simmering tea for over three minutes as it will turn bitter. Also, using boiled water can damage the tea flavor and make it bitter.
  Let the tea cool before mixing with other content. Pouring hot tea on ice will result in extra dilution due to melted ice.

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