Friday February 21 was World Kombucha Day. The reason for selecting this date is that one of the legends of the origins of kombucha dates to the Chinese Qin dynasty (221-206 BCE), during which time people spoke about a fermented...
Back in April, 2023 I played around with ChatGPT — the generative AI program that was creating waves. This was in preparation for my presentation on AI at the KKON23 event in Long Beach. I fed AI the prompt: I...
The inventive Andrew Mills, owner of Nunc Living Jun Kombucha in the UK, has developed an intriguing generative AI for kombucha home brewers. Andrew authored a recent Booch News guest posting championing the benefits of generative AI and unveiled a...
We first profiled Nunc Living Jun Kombucha and co-founder Andrew Mills in December 2020, and posted a follow-up in-person interview when we met at the Amersham Farmers’ Market in May of this year. In July Andrew was a panelist at...
In April I gave a presentation at the KBI conference on A.I. This promised to be a …demonstration of generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools, including ChatGPT (text generation), DALLE-2, and Midjourney (images), to highlight the ways kombucha brands can use...
In preparing for my presentation on AI at the upcoming KKON23 event in Long Beach, I tried out some fun prompts to demo the capabilities of generative AI programs like ChatGPT and Midjourney. These are more elaborate than the usual...
This is the fifth in the series of Booch News posts telling the stories behind new commercial kombucha brands. The inspiration for ‘Starting Out’ was NPR’s ‘How I Built This‘. Every kombucha company launched their brand in a unique way,...
The full Agenda for the 2023 Kombucha Conference (KKON23) has been published by Kombucha Brewers International. The event takes place April 18 -20 at the Westin Long Beach. It’s the 9th of the annual events. Tickets are still available. In...
The generative AI tool ChatGPT has been making waves. It’s (currently) free to use and accessible via any browser. If asked, it can generate results in multiple languages. It’s being used to write blog posts, college essays, spreadsheets, computer code,...
