Posted on 12/21/2020 7:09:14 PM PST by KC Burke
If the recent wintry weather has you thinking about a nice cup of tea, you are not alone. Demand is so high for Bigelow tea that the company cut the ribbon on a new warehouse Monday morning.
It’s a whole lot of space that will soon hold a whole lot of tea. Bigelow Tea Company has now taken over a 41,000 square foot warehouse on Executive Boulevard in Orange.
“We’re proud to have you here,” said First Selectman James Zeoli (R-Orange). “We’re not just proud, we’re thrilled to have you here as part of our community.”
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Bigelow was founded 75 years ago by Cindy’s grandmother. The company makes more than 50 types of tea and is headquartered in Fairfield.
The reason it is now leasing warehouse space in Orange is that it is outgrowing its Fairfield space. Plus, the Orange facility is right next to I-95.
The company says it needs more warehouse space because of the pandemic. People are no longer getting their tea in restaurants, cafeterias, and airports. Instead, the shipments are all to individual stores.
In addition, the demand for tea is up.
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I have become a tea snob. Research tells me it is soaring in popularity. I love tea from Capital Tea (Division of Anchor Bev) out of Annapolis.
Now with some kidney stone issues, changing from black tea (high oxalate) to green, white, oolong, and the great African imitation of tea, Rooibos there is a whole taste world to explore without even getting into the herbals.
So now I am looking for stock buys.
I am buying tea pots with warming cradles. Collecting sugar tongs and exotic brown sugar cubes. Adding dried cherries is a secrete passion. Half and half in tea?
Wild bits of preserves?
Very selective temperatures. Restricting brew times!!!!
Drinking the tea my family can't stand: Lapsang Souchong (just like in the coffee houses of my youth in the sixties). Darned if Lapsang Souchong isn't in a broth in a new scallop recipe in Food and Wine and in a $245.00 men's scent by Alexander McQueen.
I haven't even mentioned the bulk of the dreaded herbals and silly detox stuff.
I think I am drinking about three different teas and blends a day in small pots. Nothing in moderation is my motto.
I do think Bigelow is good for everyday stuff which is how I came across this market growth article.
Make mine Earl Grey please.
I like Earl Grey but I went way past that Lord three months ago.
I still do a Bialetti Moka of espresso on Saturday mornings, but M-F I’ve switched over to a pot of Paned Gymreig Welsh tea.
Paned Gymreig is a new one on me. Where do you get it?
Anybody ready to do a Nestea Plunge? See you at the pool!
My basic tools: brown betty and a tea cozy!
I used to travel to Japan 5 or 6 times a year and got hooked on the green tea commonly drunk in offices. Every day stuff, in other words.
It’s called Sencha Fukuyu (yup. that’s the name, not a cuss word). Quite refreshing and keeps the plumbing flowing (maybe because of the amount I drank, not the tea itself?)
Online. I use the “honey” extension. They have an 80 bag box which is available from Amazon if nowhere else. I’ve found it to be smoother than Yorkshire (which has a 240 bag box for about the same price), or the Twinings Scottish or Irish blend. I suppose the caveat here is I don’t care for anything in my coffee or my tea (no milk, no sugar) just want a smooth strong flavor.
That’s the one with roasted rice or rice broth in it’s components isn’t it? I have some of something similar on order.
Genmaicha from Capital Tea.
https://capitalteas.com/genmaicha/
Bigelow’s ‘Constant Comment’ (their first) is a wonderful tea, especially in the Winter.
It was my mother’s favorite. There is a decaf version as well and I have some in my pantry now.
My mom was a big tea fan. She was always brewing up one kind or another of the Twining herbal teas.
I drink lots of unsweetened iced tea, nothing fancy, usually just Lipton or Luzianne. I tried PB Tips recently and found it much more aromatic when smelled dry but this didn’t translate into enough of a difference in the actual taste to justify the higher cost for my basic purposes.
I give it as gifts to people at Christmas. Always well received, especially by people who haven’t had it before.
(In the warm months, I like Earl Grey - or just plain old Liptons :-)
I like a Darjeeling, but the ones that cost $20 an ounce and taste like a bowl of flowers are a little overdone, in my view.
I was a big coffee snob. Fresh roasted by a friend and ground within a few days or hours of use.
Liked Central America varieties the best although I would buy a pound or two of real 100% Kona about once a year. But alas, without a stomach we don’t process coffee very well. The caffeine isn’t bound to tannins as it is in tea and is usually half absorbed by the stomach. So coffee for me is triple strength right to the small intestine.
Twinings English Breakfast loose is one of my favorites. Strong and will survive any sort of milk, sweetener or whatever you might add. As low as a buck and a half an ounce when buying six tins.
You can always add herbs (like cloves or nutmeg) right out of your spice cabinet.
My wife has a tea pot collection that could fund a good vacation off e-bay.
A relative borrowed my popcorn popper to roast coffee beans, and I never got it back. I think in the old days, there used to be some kind of stove-top coffee bean roaster - I remember reading about it in a very old cooking book; but I can’t recall the source now and haven’t been able to find anything like a stove-top coffee bean roaster. So we’ve remained coffee plebeians, and use the ground stuff in cans, from the grocery.
I never drank coffee until I met my husband in mid-life, and I immediately became addicted - it seems to help in the morning with my sinus and breathing issues (I guess it dilates blood vessels, or something). But I really want to get off of it, and have been going back to teas, including herbals.
Looks like a Diedrich roaster.
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