American coffee and tea makers
Every line below is a quote from the manufacturer, with the page it came from and the date it was read.
| Manufacturer | Origin | The maker’s own words |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston Tea GardenCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | In 2003, the Bigelow family purchased the Charleston Tea Garden and formed a partnership with former owner William Barclay Hall. The Bigelows brought over sixty-five years of experience in the specialty tea business to the Garden and the American Classic brand. Since 2003, the Charleston Tea Garden has been transformed into a true American icon. American Classic Tea has maintained its faithful fans since its start in the late 1980's and has continued to prosper as a result of consumers wanting to experience the only tea grown and produced in America. Today the Charleston Tea Garden offers more than just a cup of fresh tea. Thanks to the Bigelow family, the true working tea farm presents a learning experience unlike any other in the country. |
| Hawaiian Queen CoffeeCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | Grown in the rich volcanic soil of Kona, Hawaii — 100% authentic Kona Coffee, nurtured from farm to cup. |
| Hula Daddy Kona CoffeeCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | In 2002, we (Lee and Karen Paterson) decided to grow Kona Coffee. We bought an 11-acre cow pasture in Kona. We set a reach goal to create one of the ten best coffees in the world. |
| Tea DropsCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | Our teas are also proudly made in the US. |
| Tea Hawaii & CompanyCompany-level claim | Made in USA, as claimed | Artisanal Hawaii grown tea sent directly from Hawaii farms |
This shelf asks two questions, and most pages only answer one
For almost everything else on this site, where a thing was made is the whole question. Coffee and tea split it in half. Neither crop grows in the continental United States in any quantity worth selling, so an American coffee company is normally an American roasting company working with beans that crossed an ocean. That is real manufacturing. It is not American growing, and a shopper who wants the second will not get it from a sentence about the first.
Tea Drops is the honest version of that position. Its page says its teas are proudly made in the US, and made is the correct word: the blending and the packing happen here. Nobody reading it could mistake it for a claim about a tea garden.
Three companies where both answers are the same
Hawaii is America, and coffee grows there. Hula Daddy says Lee and Karen Paterson bought an eleven-acre cow pasture in Kona in 2002 and decided to grow Kona coffee on it. Hawaiian Queen names the volcanic soil. Tea Hawaii sells tea it describes as Hawaii grown, sent directly from Hawaii farms.
These are the few entries on this shelf where grown and made collapse back into one fact, and the reason is geographic rather than any credit to the companies. It is worth knowing which kind of claim you are reading.
A contradiction we have not resolved
Charleston Tea Garden grows tea on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, and describes itself as the only tea grown and produced in America.
Tea Hawaii, three rows up this same page, grows tea in Hawaii.
Both sentences are on this site as their companies wrote them, and they cannot both be read strictly. Charleston may mean the only one at commercial scale, or the only one on the mainland, or its sentence may simply be older than its competition. We do not know, and the way to find out is to ask Charleston rather than to quietly soften either page until the contradiction stops showing. It is listed in the open questions for exactly that reason.