Yesterday we published a Guest Posting by Gary Leigh, the founder of GO Kombucha The Risks of Packaging Kombucha in Aluminium Cans. This article, reprinted from the Fall 2021 edition of SYMBIOSIS Magazine, features a few of the many brands...
This article is re-posted from the GO Kombucha blog, January 30, 2024. The kombucha industry has seen an increasing number of brands choose cans over glass bottles. However, industry leaders like GTs Synergy, Komvida in Spain, and Bebida Viva in...
Kombucha industry insiders are well aware of alternative production techniques that are often transparent to the average consumer. Many brands, with roots in home-brewed ‘booch, modify their production as they scale up to commercial levels. This is not just a...
The Weekend Financial Times, in a review of the new book A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch, mentions the bizarre trend, early in the 20th century, to market the ‘wonder element’ of radioactive radium in foods...
El Pais, Spain’s main daily newspaper and “the most influential online medium in the Spanish-speaking world” published a report today (Oct 31, 2023) headlined Kombucha is not what it appears to be: How to avoid being deceived. Subtitled A lack...
Gary Leigh, the owner of Go Kombucha is the founder of England’s original commercial kombucha business. Part One covered the company’s origins and the direct-to-consumer varieties sold. In Part Two, he shares his views on the risks he sees in...
The UK newspaper The Financial Times reported on April 22 about European Union (EU) measures to combat an influx of syrup-laced honey from China and other exporters flooding the bloc’s €2.3bn honey market and driving down prices. One EU official...
Wine connoisseur Jancis Robinson makes the case for cans as an environmentally friendly alternative to glass bottles in the Weekend edition of the Financial Times, noting that “Canned wine seems to be moving rapidly from convenient novelty to a category...
I was amused to see that Twitter saw fit to place a warning label on a tweet from the folks at You + I kombucha in Glasgow, Scotland. They rebranded — launching with a beautiful minimalist label design –switching from...
As the kombucha category continues to expand worldwide, there are several “interesting” variations on the gold standard of authentic, unpasteurized, raw kombucha coming onto the market. In the absence of a Standard of Identity for the drink, vendors are free...
