Even before that notorious Boston Tea Party in December 1773, the Americans knew a thing or two about tea. And while the British drink it hot, every US diner proprietor knows that it's at its refreshing best over ice. That’s where one of the founders, Robin Chapman, came across iced tea, while living in New York City in the 1980s. He fell in love with a freshly made iced tea at his local all-American diner on the corner of 1st Ave and East 53rd Street.
Delicious. Almost addictive. Nothing he found could beat those “home-made” iced teas in that most iconic of American restaurants, the diner.
Back home in England, he found a wholly different story. In England, a country of tea drinkers, there was no proper iced tea at all. So he decided to combine the best of East and West. Take the cleanest, crispest American diner recipe and add England’s centuries-old taste for the finest teas. He perfected a formula using refreshing, natural, low calorie ingredients to produce an iced tea that would appeal as much to an English sea clipper captain as an all-American diner proprietor.
