White Peach the antioxidant rich & refreshing fountain of youth ๐ ๐ ๐ White Peach With delicate white tea, juicy peach and magically healing marigold flowers.ย BREW TIPS: Prepare with a Mesquite Honey and fresh squeezed lemon and serve iced (Bailey's way)ย or enjoy unsweetened and iced (Dana's way). Why do we love this blend? Here's why... White tea is made from the young tea buds and leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, the same plant that produces green, black, oolong, and pu erh teas. The delicate process of drying these young leaves and buds to make white tea preserves the high antioxidant content, making white tea a super wellness booster! The matriarch of our tea family, Dana, is a...
Marigold: The Sun Flower ๐ skin healing โ antioxidant rich โ immune boosting ๐ Marigolds are considered sacred flowers to the Aztec culture, and are often linked to the sun and represent power, strength, and light that live in a person. Aztecs also attributed healing and even magical powers to the plant.It is said that marigold seeds were given to Spanish explorers by the Aztec people, and the explorers brought them back to Spain, where they grew in monastery gardens.ย โจ We love the healing properties and the bright sunny appearance of marigolds so much that they are in many of our tea blends. To identify if a tea blend contains marigold, just look for the bright yellow petals that...
๐ซ SHINING THE SPOTLIGHT Rachel's Favoritesย + Tips and Tricks ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ This month we are shining the spotlight on Rachel, the store manager of our Albuquerque location. We chose Rachel as our employee feature for the month of July because her secret super power is building community and nourishing human connection - which is our intention this month! In the two years Rachel has been a part of the OBTC fam, she has seen both the store and her team grow in amazing ways. Watching how her team's hard work and creativity pays off and builds our business is her favorite part of working with us. Rachel's leadership and organization has brought her team together and this has created a friendly,...
Summerville Sweet Tea the best glass of sweet tea is always the one you drink on the porch A History of Sweet Tea & Porch Sittin' In the late 1700's, the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, traveled all the way from China and ended up being successfully cultivated in South Carolina, which also became the birthplace of sweet tea a few years later.ย Porches and sweet tea = a match made in heaven. Sweet tea was born in Summerville, South Carolina, in the late 1800's, around the same time when the concept of porches emerged in an effort to keep homes cool during the hot summer heat. Coincidentally, it turns out that sipping a sweetened iced tea while rocking on a...
Celebrating 4 Years In Mesilla, New Mexico ๐ตย get the scoop on our story ๐ต customerย favorites and more insideย ๐ต SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. IT'S WHAT WE DO This week marks a special occasion for our little tea company - it's our 4 year anniversary of sipping (usually iced) tea down south in the warm, yet completely enchanting desert. When you walk into the Old Barrel Tea Co. in Mesilla you are pleasantly greeted with bursts of vibrant color - the thing that the Mesilla store is known for, as their community is rich in diversity, flavor and culture.ย Our team in Mesilla is composed of some of the most relatable, hospitable, and hard working people who are tea obsessed and always ready...
