Our Story: Southern Heritage Meets Foodservice Innovation

Founded in 2003 right in Loxley, Alabama, Sweet Brew was born out of a simple, genuine passion: to cure the endless inconsistency of traditional sweet tea prep behind busy restaurant bars. We noticed operators struggling with heavy sugar bags, sticky cleanup, and varying measurements that left the guest experience entirely up to chance. To solve this, we pioneered the world’s original "tea and sugar" pouch—combining pure cane sugar and premium, clean-label ingredients into a single, pre-portioned bag. We didn't just tweak an old method; we ushered in an entirely new era of beverage prep that gives owners complete control over their recipe while freeing up employees to focus on what matters most: serving your guests.

Today, we are proud to stand as an industry market leader, producing billions of servings annually across state-of-the-art facilities in South Alabama. We have never lost our comfortable, Southern summertime roots, but we have evolved into a highly polished, solution-oriented corporate partner. As the first company on the planet to fresh-brew lemonade out of standard tea brewing equipment, we help category managers fully transform a single piece of hardware into a multi-offering, high-margin profit center. We don’t just drop a box at your back door; we build custom-formulated, world-class beverage programs focused on absolute consistency, rigorous food safety, and radical margin transparency.

100% Clean Label

Made with absolutely zero artificial colors, flavors, or chemical preservatives—just pure cane sugar and real, premium components.

Up to 36-Hour Hold Times

Engineered for the speed of modern food safety realities, holding peak flavor profiles for up to 36 hours for lemonade and 12 hours for sweet tea when paired with an urn liner.

100% American Made

Handcrafted and shipped directly from our over 200,000 square feet of SQF Level 3-certified manufacturing space in South Alabama.

One of the highest-margin pours behind your bar.

Fresh-brewed iced tea and lemonade carry premium beverage pricing with commodity-level ingredient costs. Sweet Brew tightens that gap further by cutting the hidden costs operators usually forget to count.

  • ~80%

    Typical fresh-brewed beverage margin

    A glass of fresh-brewed tea or lemonade is consistently among the highest gross-margin items on a foodservice menu — and Sweet Brew protects that margin by eliminating over-pouring, sugar shrinkage, and inconsistent yields.

  • Brew throughput, same equipment

    Because the pouch and funnel handle measuring and dissolving sugar, a single brewer cycles faster and cleaner — operators move more gallons per shift without adding equipment.

  • Zero

    Sugar-handling cost

    No 25-lb sugar bags, no sticky storage, no scoop-related waste, no employees dropping bags. Sugar is portioned, sealed, and counted as one SKU on your invoice.

  • +LTOs

    Flavor variety = ticket lift

    Black Raspberry, Watermelon, Mango, Peach, and three lemonades are ready-made limited-time offers. Operators routinely lift beverage attach by introducing one new flavor per quarter — with no kitchen training required.

More Than a Million Teas Served

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