Meet the Entrepreneur Betting American-Made Tea Will Soon Have Its Moment
David Bromwich could be America’s first itinerant small-batch tea processor.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon, David Bromwich paced his friend’s kitchen in Brooklyn barefoot, waiting for some tea to steep. The alarm on his phone went off, but he was already pouring.
“It has a slight asparagus taste,” he said, slurping the hot green tea from a spoon. It did—kind of mellow and sweetly vegetal. “There are so many chemicals in tea,” he explained, sticking a thermometer in another cup of water. “It’s the processing that unlocks all the different compounds.”