Making chai isn’t like making a Martini or an Americano, though some may argue, there’s no set recipe to follow. That means anyone can mix some tea, milk, sugar and spices together and call it a Masala Chai, so the caffeine content can vary a lot. However, all is not lost, and although there’s no way of knowing the amount of caffeine in a cup of black chai if you buy it from a food stall in one of Delhi’s backstreets, any professional tea maker (known as ‘chaiwalla’) will use a set uniqure recipe. The good people at Caffeine Informer tested six different 8oz chais for their caffeine content and found they varied from 27-67mg per cup, which is a huge difference! But you probably don’t want to throw your freshly brewed cup of sweet spicy chai away just yet. Although it may look like a lot, even the strongest chai latte tested had only about a third the amount of caffeine when compared to a regular coffee (which are about 180mg). In fact, the weakest chai tested had the same amount of caffeine as a decaf grande coffee.