I was impressed by the Virtual Kombucha Summit held online November 16-22, 2020. The organizers have now formed an online community which gives year-round access to the presentations and discussions from VKS20 (including my talk on global kombucha trends). The...
Oenophile Jancis Robinson writes in the Weekend Financial Times (subscription required) about the environmental impact of beverage containers. While acknowledging that glass bottles are the material of choice for fine wines, she wonders if plastic, cans, or keg alternatives could...
Last week we posted the annual review of kombucha brands’ Instagram accounts worldwide and listed the top 20 with the most followers. Here’s a sample set of posts from each of these brands to show what the most popular brands...
Twitter remains a distant third in popularity among brands in the kombucha industry, behind Instagram and Facebook. Almost all brands promote themselves on Instagram, and over three-quarters on Facebook. But only 17% of the brands in our Worldwide Directory have...
This is the second in the series of our annual summary of social media stats for kombucha brands. Yesterday we highlighted the changes over the past year on Instagram. Facebook is the second most popular platform for kombucha brands. At...
This is the third annual report on the social media statistics of leading kombucha brands. At the end of 2018, we published an initial, informal survey of kombucha brands’ presence on social media. At the time, we reviewed the stats...
I met Andrew Mills online at the recent virtual Kombucha Summit. He held an impromptu Zoom tour of his facility, showcasing his compact production area in a barn on his property in Buckinghamshire, England. He built it for just £12,000...
Olga Sorzano was introduced to kombucha in Siberia by her grandmother, Baba, who kept a jar of continuous brew fermenting on top of her refrigerator year-round. “I would visit her and use any excuse to have a chance to taste...
Artizen Kombucha was co-founded by Russian immigrant Daria (Dasha) Konstantinovna Smolentseva and her husband Sebastien Armand. It’s a thriving small-batch kombucha company rooted in the Ontario landscape, its community, and seasonal local ingredients. Their typical customers are young families interested...
It was Liz Mclaughlin’s dream to start New Life Force Kombucha. Quite literally, she had a dream of Saint Patrick – the patron saint of Ireland – gaining ‘new life force’ from a sustaining drink. Liz writes: … he became...
