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...
Erica Chemolli was born and raised in Italy and moved to the States in 2018. She founded Kombucha Queen Miami 18 months ago. She started making kombucha as a way to heal her Vitiligo, a skin disorder resulting in white...
This is the third in a series of profiles featuring kombucha brands in Greece and Turkey that I visited this summer. In June, I visited Esra and Dila, the founders of Kombucha 2200, in the densely populated Gültepe – Kağıthane...
The owners of Vox Kombucha in Wakefield, Quebec, Canada have put their business up for sale. Owners Evan and Ryan state: After much soul searching and a difficult few years, we have made the decision to move on from our...
This is the second in a series of profiles featuring kombucha brands in Greece and Turkey that I visited this summer. It is also the seventh in the series of Booch News posts telling the stories behind new commercial kombucha...
In May and June I traveled to Greece and Turkey on vacation. This is the first of a series of Profiles from the trip. George Cassimatis founded Tsitsiri Kombucha in Athens three years ago. We met at his booth at...
Origins Founding brothers Jack and Jordan Sotoriou started the Kombucha Warehouse in January 2022. At the time, Jack had been brewing kombucha at home, Jordan was interested in launching a commercial brand, but when looking on GoDaddy for available names...
Brewch flavorings were created in 2016 by Brendan Woodward, a kombucha enthusiast. He intended to develop a range of flavors for his home brews that were as healthy and efficient as possible. In 2020 his friend Arturo joined the project...
The Kombucha Brewers International KKON23 conference in Long Beach, California, concluded on Thursday April 20 with the Kombucha Kup Awards of Excellence. Five judges (full disclosure: I was one of them) spent two days tasting over 65 entries in the...
After spending a week in Long Beach at KKON23, I planned to drive back home to Northern California on Friday, April 21. Before leaving greater Los Angeles, I visited Trey Lockerbie, the founder of Better Booch in Huntington Park. I...
