The Bay Minette-based company Cane Brew announced that its sweet tea and unsweetened tea products are now being carried in 618 Walmart stores, marking the biggest retail milestone yet for the Alabama company.
For Cane Brew, the Walmart rollout is said to represent much more than another place to sell tea. “It is a major vote of confidence for a company that was founded and remains headquartered in Alabama, and whose growth is taking a product developed on the Gulf Coast to consumers throughout the Southeast,” the company said in its press release.
Cane Brew was founded in Bay Minette, where co-founder Adam Stewart spent years developing a process that allows pure cane sugar to be incorporated directly into a tea bag. The result is a product designed to eliminate some of the traditional work involved in making homemade sweet tea. Consumers can place the bag in cool water, no boiling and no measuring sugar…