Can You Get Drunk on Coffee or Is It Just Caffeine?

No, coffee does not contain alcohol, so it cannot make you drunk. The reaction reported after Nayuki's Valentine's Day rose drinks was not intoxication but caffeine sensitivity: consumers described heart palpitations and being unable to sleep all night after drinking the Snow Mountain Rose Treasure Tea line, which blends rose puree, lychee, Dianhong black tea, and milk.

The likely cause is caffeine from the tea base, not any alcohol. Drinks that combine tea, fruit, and milk can carry a noticeable caffeine load, and people who are sensitive may feel jittery or struggle to sleep, especially when consumed late in the day. Knowing the caffeine ingredients in a drink helps set expectations before ordering.

Valentine's Day has always been a key moment for major tea and coffee brands to vie for attention, and Nayuki seized the occasion this year to launch rose-themed limited-edition products, including the Mountain Wild Treasure Tea series and two cute merchandise items. However, the new releases unexpectedly flopped after hitting the market. Many consumers reported that the drinks tasted strange and were hard to swallow, and some even experienced heart palpitations and were unable to sleep all night after drinking them. What exactly went wrong with this rose milk tea? Was it a mistake in flavor blending, or was there something hidden about the caffeine content? This article will walk you through the real feedback on Nayuki's Valentine's Day new releases and explore why netizens jokingly dubbed it the "new king of insomnia."

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During Valentine's Day, major tea and coffee brands are undoubtedly at their busiest. To win over young consumers, brands poured tremendous effort into this round of holiday marketing, from couples' sets to limited-edition drinks, from adorable merchandise to in-store interactive events—food, drink, and fun all covered. As new products rolled out one after another, the streets seemed to be shrouded in a pink romantic atmosphere.

Yet on this holiday night that was supposed to be sweet to the end, a group of netizens took to posting their grievances late at night. They said that after drinking Nayuki's new products, they not only felt heart palpitations but also found themselves tossing and turning all night on this Valentine's Day.

It is reported that Nayuki launched multiple new products during this Valentine's Day period, with an overall style featuring roses and pink—the most frequently appearing elements—as the main theme.

In its core milk tea and bakery categories, the brand introduced the Mountain Wild Treasure Tea series and two desserts. The series includes two drinks: Snow Mountain Rose Treasure Tea and Snow Mountain Rose Amber Treasure Tea. According to official descriptions, Snow Mountain Rose Treasure Tea blends double-petaled rose puree, lychee, Dianhong black tea, and milk, while the Amber Treasure Tea adds peach gum topping on top of that.

Meanwhile, Nayuki also launched two limited-edition merchandise items around the Valentine's Day theme: a rose potted plant plush doll and a hugging rose plush doll, which consumers could receive free with the purchase of designated sets. Many users originally had no particular sense of ritual for the holiday, but to get these adorable plush dolls, they couldn't resist timing their orders for the sets, sipping milk tea while snapping and sharing photos.

Based on past experience, every time a brand launches new products, positive and negative reviews always coexist. After all, whether it's coffee or tea, it's common for tastes to differ. But this time, compared with other new releases during the same period, those who tried Nayuki's Valentine's Day limited editions gave almost uniformly negative reviews, with complaints about the strange taste being remarkably consistent—some even called it "the worst-tasting product in history."

One would have thought this cup of milk tea was merely enhanced with rose flavor—at worst too sweet or with an overpowering rose taste. But unexpectedly, although the R&D team chose ingredients that are all common in daily life, when combined in the same drink, they seemed extraordinarily incongruous.

Many people said they couldn't stand it after drinking, with sharp and merciless complaints: "One sip and you need to scrape your tongue coating," "I was so mad when the delivery spilled, but after one sip, I was glad it did," "It's like scraping the filling out of a flower cake and mixing it with milk," "Nayuki's merchandise is cute, but the drink is just too awful," "I'd rather lose my sense of taste," "Cute plush dolls and terrible tea," "As always, thoughtful merchandise but undrinkable beverages"...

It's clear that everyone has mixed feelings about Nayuki's Valentine's Day limited editions—loving the merchandise that's like "buying the box for the pearl" while hating the brand's main business: the milk tea.

In fact, aside from the taste itself, Nayuki's rose milk tea has an even bigger complaint: you can't sleep after drinking it. Since the brand didn't provide reference information on caffeine content and there had been no prior "insomnia cases," everyone confidently placed orders in the afternoon, thinking they'd give it a try. They thought they had escaped Chagee's "pursuit," only to be "stabbed in the back" by Nayuki.

According to firsthand accounts from "insomnia victims," the milk tea was drunk in the afternoon, the madness was posted in the middle of the night, and sleep only came the next morning. Many people experienced a racing heartbeat after drinking, felt wired all night, were drowsy with eyes open but couldn't sleep with eyes closed—the level of misery was directly reminiscent of the sleepless experience from drinking Chagee, and you can imagine how torturous it was.

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