Americans are drinking less soda and sweetened beverages, preferring instead to grab a cup of refreshingly cold iced tea, especially as temperatures rise. Sales have surged over the past twenty years—more than quadrupling during that time frame according to the US Tea Association. More than half of the American population drinks tea on a daily…
When you drink tea from Two Leaves and a Bud you don’t just sip, you experience. That is because, in the words of the company’s founder Richard Rosenfeld, “we go there.” From the valleys of Assam to the higher elevations of Darjeeling, they go to the gardens where their tea is harvested, and to the…
What do you get when you cross phenomenal tea products and a fierce concern for the treatment of tigers and elephants in the wild? You get award-winning, premium chai and tea company David Rio, of course! Based in San Francisco, David Rio has a solid mission: “to be the global premium chai and tea brand…
Island Rose Gourmet Tea was founded in the 1990s in Nassau, Bahamas. Although they began by selling tea bags to resorts their business quickly evolved to include the tea and lemonade concentrates that have become the mainstay of their company. After just one taste of their delicious lemonade it was easy to understand the…
Whether a person drinks tea for the ritual, for its calming effects, or for its refreshing qualities, there is little doubt that the beverage has quite a fan base. In fact, after water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Traditionally, tea leaves were steeped in hot water to the desired strength…
Coffee Fest, bringing retailers, distributors, and manufacturers together for more than twenty years, buzzed the Portland Metro area this past weekend, offering up everything from demonstrations to samples, cuppings to competitions, trends to education. As described on the Coffee Fest website, “If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, goes well with coffee, or is…