Tea

Tea Suppliers

Gloria Jean's Coffees is proud to offer the finest hand-picked specialty teas from around the world. Each blend or garden tea that we carry has been carefully selected to bring our customers a superior, high quality cup of tea.

Timothy's teas are the darkest / strongest that we carry. They definitely stand up to anything you might care to add.

Timothy's passion for quality doesn't end with coffee. Timothy ´s teas must meet similar uncompromising standards for quality and good taste.

Over 50 years ago, Ruth Campbell Bigelow changed the way we drink tea in the United States. An avid tea connoisseur, Ruth thought tea drinkers like herself would enjoy a more zestfully flavored tea. Happening upon a special colonial recipe that called for tea to be blended with orange peel and spices, she decided to try and re-create what she felt sounded like a wonderful idea. After much trial and error in the family kitchen, she finally hit upon what she thought was the best tasting recipe. After sharing samples with family, friends and acquaintances, one of them reported back that her new tea had caused nothing but constant comments. Thus the "Constant Comment"® name was born.

In the ensuing years, the RC Bigelow conpany has carried on expanding Ruth's idea with many new flavors in tea, herb teas, green teas, and iced teas. Bigelow Teas have grown and grown until today you can find a generous selection in virtually every supermarket in the United States.

Celestial Seasonings had its beginnings in 1969 in Aspen, Colorado where 19-year-old Mo Siegel gathered wild herbs in the forests and canyons of the Rocky Mountains and made them into healthful teas.

In 1969, Siegel and his friend Wyck Hay found a bountiful harvest of wild herbs growing around Boulder, Colorado. With friends and wives helping, they picked the herbs and produced 500 pounds of their first blend called MO's 36 Herb Tea®. It was packaged in hand-sewn muslin bags and sold to a local health food store.

Hay's brother, John, joined the partnership in 1971. The entrepreneurs set up shop in an old barn outside of Boulder, and they expanded their market to stores throughout Colorado, New Mexico and the East Coast. The partners also began buying herbs rather than picking everything themselves, and the dream of a national herb tea company slowly began to materialize.

The company continued to grow and revolutionize the tea industry. Herb teas had previously been perceived as only of medicinal significance, but Celestial Seasonings introduced herb teas as flavorful, healthy beverages, virtually creating the modern tea industry.