Ordering vegan at Dutch Bros can feel more complicated than it should.
Since I found out I’m lactose-intolerant, I’ve been much more careful about checking ingredients and swaps before I order.
So how do I tell whether a Dutch Bros coffee or tea is vegan?
These are the ten vegan drinks I keep coming back to, plus the swaps I use to make a few other orders plant-based.
10 Best Dutch Bros vegan drinks (Dairy-free orders)
1. Nutty Irishman Cold Brew

Regular Cold Brew Nutritional Breakdown (Iced or Toasted - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 20 | ||
Total Fat | 1G | ||
Total Carbs | 3G | ||
Sugar | 0G | ||
Protein | 1G | ||
Nutty Irishman Cold Brew Standard Ingredients
- Cold Brew
- Irish Cream syrup
- Hazelnut syrup
Cold brew is what I reach for when I want caffeine without much fuss. On days when I want coffee to taste like coffee, it usually wins.
When plain coffee feels too bare, I like adding one of Dutch Bros’ plant-based syrups. This Nutty Irishman cold brew is one I come back to because it feels richer without getting heavy.
If I want it a little creamier, I ask for oat milk or coconut milk.
That gives it more body and a flavor that reminds me of Irish cream, while the cold brew still stays at the front.
Extra Tip: Ask for a nitro cold brew instead of the regular one if you want more caffeine.
How To Order So It's Vegan
- Order a Cold Brew with a plant-based milk of your choice
- Ask for Hazelnut syrup
- Ask for Irish Cream syrup
2. Passion Water Rebel

Passion Water Rebel Nutritional Breakdown (Iced - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 190 | 240 | 380 |
Total Fat | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Total Carbs | 47G | 58G | 93G |
Sugar | 45G | 56G | 89G |
Protein | 1G | 1G | 2G |
Passion Water Rebel Standard Ingredients
- Dutch Bros Rebel™ Energy Drink
- Blackberry syrup
- Pomegranate syrup
When I want something bright instead of coffee, I usually think of the Passion Water Rebel first.
It’s one of Dutch Bros’ signature energy drinks, so I use it as my coffee-free pick when I still want something with a little bite.
This vegan Dutch Bros drink is made with passion fruit syrup, watermelon syrup, and Rebel energy drink.
The first time I had a few sips of the Dutch Bros Rebel drinks , it reminded me of a fruity Red Bull.
The syrups round out the Rebel base for me, so it tastes fruitier and less sharp.
Tips When Ordering
- Ask for a sugar-free version of this drink if you're trying to cut down on sugar
3. Double Rainbro Tea

Double Rainbro Tea Nutritional Breakdown (Iced - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 90 | 180 | 270 |
Total Fat | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Total Carbs | 22G | 44G | 66G |
Sugar | 21G | 42G | 64G |
Protein | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Double Rainbro Tea Nutritional Breakdown (Hot - Without Modification) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 90 | 90 | 90 |
Total Fat | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Total Carbs | 22G | 22G | 22G |
Sugar | 21G | 21G | 21G |
Protein | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Double Rainbro Tea Standard Ingredients
- green tea or Paris black tea
- strawberry syrup
- peach syrup
- coconut syrup
Vegan tea lovers, this one’s for you. The name is a play on the infamous YouTube video, the double rainbow guy !
Double Rainbro Tea is colorful, fruity, and one of the easier vegan-friendly orders to remember. It’s made with strawberry syrup, peach syrup, and coconut syrup.
The first sip is bright and tangy, but it doesn’t feel heavy.
A medium cup only contains 180 calories, which is pretty low for something this fruity. I usually switch between green tea and Paris black tea depending on whether I want it a little lighter or a little bolder.
I also like that I can get it hot or cold, so I don’t have to change the drink just because the weather does.
4. Sweet Sunrise Rebel

Sweet Sunrise Rebel Standard Ingredients
- Dutch Bros Rebel™ Energy Drink
- Peach Syrup
- Passion Fruit Syrup
- Orange Syrup
- Banana Syrup
Another vegan-friendly Dutch Bros drink I like is the Sweet Sunrise Rebel. Like the Passion Water Rebel, it starts with the Rebel energy drink base.
It doesn’t need any ingredient swaps to stay plant-based, which makes it one of the easier menu orders.
The name fits it. The layered color looks like sunrise in the cup, and the sweetness is what I notice first.
It’s built with peach, passion fruit, banana, and orange. The flavors sound busy, but in the cup they blend into something soft and fruity instead of chaotic.
It’s fizzy and easy to sip any time of day. I usually order it sugar-free when I want to keep it lighter.
5. Double Chocolate Mocha Freeze

Double Chocolate Mocha Freeze Standard Ingredients
- blended coffee
- Dark Chocolate Mocha Syrup
- Choice of Milk
Chocolate is one of the ingredients I check twice at coffee chains because it isn’t automatically vegan.
That makes mocha drinks a little tricky when I want to stay strict about dairy.
Dutch Bros Chocolate Mocha Freeze can work as a vegan order with the right swaps, which is good news when I want chocolate and something cold.
Dutch Bros Freeze is essentially like Starbucks’s Frappuccino drinks. So if I want a blended frozen drink, this is one of the closest options.
The catch is that the standard Freeze mix and whipped cream are not plant-based, so I have to change the order if I want that frozen mocha texture.
How To Order So It's Vegan
- Ask for a Double Chocolate Mocha Freeze with your vegan milk of choice
- Ask for no whipped cream
6. Annihilator – Chocolate macadamia nut breve

Annihilator Nutritional Breakdown (Iced - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 280 | 420 | 500 |
Total Fat | 15G | 27G | 34G |
Total Carbs | 28G | 32G | 36G |
Sugar | 26G | 30G | 32G |
Protein | 6G | 10G | 12G |
Annihilator Nutritional Breakdown (Hot - Without Modification) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Nutrients | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 420 | 560 | 640 |
Total Fat | 27G | 39G | 46G |
Total Carbs | 32G | 36G | 40G |
Sugar | 30G | 34G | 36G |
Protein | 10G | 14G | 17G |
Annihilator Nutritional Breakdown (Blended - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 520 | 720 | 930 |
Total Fat | 15G | 21G | 28G |
Total Carbs | 82G | 112G | 143G |
Sugar | 77G | 105G | 134G |
Protein | 11G | 17G | 23G |
Annihilator Standard Ingredients
- espresso
- chocolate Macadamia nut syrup
- half and half
Dutch Bros has a lot of flavored coffee drinks, but some ingredients don’t have an easy plant-based swap.
Still, drinks like the Dutch Bros Annihilator can work for vegans with the right changes.
The original Annihilator comes with a breve, but it is easy enough to make vegan.
I like swapping the breve for oat milk. It gives up a little of the original creaminess, but the chocolate macadamia nut syrup still comes through with a nutty finish.
This drink can be ordered hot, cold, or blended, so I can match it to the weather without changing the flavor much. That flexibility is a big reason I keep it in mind.
How To Order So It's Vegan
- Ask for the original Annihilator Breve with the vegan milk of your choice
- Ask for chocolate macadamia nut syrup
7. Green Apple Smoothie

Green Apple Smoothie Nutritional Breakdown (Blended - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 410 | 590 | 780 |
Total Fat | 4G | 4G | 4G |
Total Carbs | 87G | 128G | 171G |
Sugar | 84G | 124G | 165G |
Protein | 0G | 0G | 0G |
Green Apple Smoothie Standard Ingredients
- Green Apple fruit Smoothie
- topped with whipped cream
Besides coffee, tea, and energy drinks, Dutch Bros also has smoothies. One I come back to is the green apple smoothie.
The sweet-sour balance is what gets me. I finish it faster than I expect because the tartness keeps me coming back for another sip.
A medium smoothie contains 590 calories, which is a lot for something that still goes down easily. I usually treat it more like a rushed breakfast than an everyday order.
Green apple isn’t a fruit I order often, but this is one of the drinks that makes me want it again.
Tip For Ordering Vegan
- Ask for your smoothie without the whipped cream
8. Cold Brew with Oat Milk

Cold Brew Nutritional Breakdown (Iced or Toasted - Without Modification) | |||
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Nutrition | Small | Medium | Large |
Calories | 20 | ||
Total Fat | 1G | ||
Total Carbs | 3G | ||
Sugar | 0G | ||
Protein | 1G | ||
Cold Brew with Oat Milk Standard Ingredients
- Cold Brew Coffee
- Oat Milk
Cold brew with oat milk is what I order when I want something creamy without extra flavoring. It’s simple, and that’s exactly why I like it on busy days.
It’s made with plain cold brew and oat milk, so the coffee stays front and center while the milk softens the edges. That makes it a solid choice when I want caffeine with a little smoothness.
On days when I want it to feel a little fuller, I ask for nitro-infused cold brew with oat milk.
9. The Bob Frost

The Bob Frost Standard Ingredients
- Bananas Smoothie
- Coconut Smoothie
- Dark Chocolate Smoothie
- Milk of Choice
I like smoothies, but some days I don’t want fruity sweetness right away. That’s when I start thinking about the Bob Frost.
A Frost is basically Dutch Bros’ take on a shake, which means I check the ingredients carefully. With a few swaps, though, I can still make it feel like a dessert.
The bananas and coconut give it a soft base, but the dark chocolate is what makes it feel most like dessert to me.
Bob Frosts feel like a treat, so I usually order one for a special occasion or after a long week.
How To Order So It's Vegan
- Ask for a Bob Frost with the vegan milk of your choice
- Ask for no whipped cream
10. Private Reserve

Private Reserve Standard Ingredients
- arabica beans from Central and South America
Private Reserve is Dutch Bros’ brewed coffee, and it’s one I can make at home pretty easily.
Since I brew it myself, I can adjust it however I want. A splash of vegan milk, syrup, or sweetener is usually enough to make it feel more like my cup.
That’s the part I like most. If I already have the coffee at home, I don’t need to leave the house just to get a Dutch Bros-style cup.
How do you know which Dutch Bros drinks are vegan?
The hard part is that there isn’t one perfect way to tell which drinks are vegan and which ones aren’t.
What I’ve managed to do is build a pretty reliable rundown of which drinks are already plant-based and which ones can be made that way.
Cold brews, lattes, and Americanos are the best choices. They can easily be mixed with non-dairy options and syrups with vegan options.
For example, the Oat Milk Kicker latte, Cinnamon Swirl Oat latte, iced soy Annihilator, and Hazelnut latte can all be made vegan-friendly.
When I’m in a tea mood, I usually think about the Dirty Chai with non-dairy milk or the Pink Grapefruit green tea.
Some Dutch Bros Rebels and Freezes include dairy, so I still check the list before I order one.
The Freeze mix isn’t vegan, so I recommend asking them to replace it with vegan milk.
If I’m unsure whether a drink is vegan, I skip it and pick something clearer instead.
Tips for ordering vegan beverages at Dutch Bros
When I’m turning a non-vegan drink into something plant-based, I usually swap the dairy base for oat, almond, or coconut milk.
I also like adding vegan-friendly flavors to plain coffee or tea when I want a little more going on.
Avoid drinks with caramel, white chocolate, eggnog, almond Roca, and pumpkin sauces, like English Toffee Mocha and Hazelnut Truffle Mocha.
Some mocha drinks already lean vegan-friendly in flavor, like the Grasshopper, which combines creme de menthe and dark chocolate, and Double Torture, which has vanilla mocha with two extra shots of vanilla.
I leave off whipped cream and soft top toppings because they use dairy. If I order a blended frozen drink without the milk or yogurt, the texture changes, but that is sometimes the trade-off.

These are some of the ingredients I watch out for on a plant-based diet:
Dutch Frosts
Dutch Bros Frosts are difficult to make vegan because their main ingredient is an ice cream mix.
Some drinks let you switch the Frost with plant-based milk, like the Bob Frost. They also come with whipped cream, and I always leave that off.
Some sauces and syrups
Some Dutch Bros sauces are fine for vegans, but caramel sauce, white chocolate sauce, sugar-free white chocolate sauce, and pumpkin pie sauce are not.
They contain skim milk, condensed milk, or non-fat milk and don’t have plant-based substitutes.
The same goes for some syrups. Almond Roca syrup, caramel syrup, and English toffee syrup also contain animal products and don’t have vegan alternatives.
Some of these also use cane sugar.
Any milk-based toppings or additions
Whipped cream and similar dairy toppings are off-limits for vegans, and Dutch Bros uses its own names for some toppings, so the wording matters when I’m ordering.
Cocoa
Many cocoa drinks from Dutch Bros aren’t vegan-friendly, especially the ones made with Dutch Bros chocolate milk or Dutch Chocolate blend.
I can’t always swap that base for a plant-based alternative, but some chocolate drinks do work with plant-based milk and chocolate syrup.
That’s when I ask my Broista if it can be done.
FAQs
Are all Dutch Bros smoothies vegan?
Not all Dutch Bros smoothies are vegan, since some contain yogurt. I usually say I want a vegan smoothie up front so there’s less room for confusion.
Does Dutch Bros have an oat milk option?
Many drinks at Dutch Bros can be made with oat milk instead of dairy milk, and the menu even includes some oat milk specialties like the Oat Milk Kicker.
Are Dutch Bros teas vegan?
Teas at Dutch Bros are usually vegan as long as I don’t add dairy.
Conclusion
There are plenty of vegan drinks at Dutch Bros for anyone trying to stick to a plant-based diet.
Dutch Bros doesn’t have a dedicated vegan or dairy-free menu, but I can still order some of the popular drinks with plant-based alternatives like almond milk.
I still make sure to mention that I’m vegan when I order so my drink stays free of animal products.


