For  browntails, Nini trying to order another mug of small beer.

As in the United States of the real world, the nations of the Antillian Union-- the Republic of Terrapinian States, the Free League of Terrapinia, and New Verdania --rejected the tea-drinking habits of the old world and took to beer and coffee with great fondness. Beer is still a popular drink for all ages, and non-alchoholic or low-alchoholic varieties are the healthy option in a world without much in the way of refrigeration or pasteurization. As for coffee, the drink is still seen as the beverage of the intellectual elite, something uppity city-dwellers do.

Of course, black tea is still popular in the other nations, and renewed contact with Kilen means the Fusangese can enjoy a wide and rich variety of other teas, even the native nation of Kanuhsaowana has a tradition of peppermint brews.

None of this really matters to a little Renartais who wants more to drink, of course.