Category: Controversy

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Kombucha: The Movie

A mind-altering drink makes employees work themselves to death. TL;DR Luke Merritt lands a job at the cult-like Symbio Corporation, where a mind-altering kombucha turns employees into productive corporate cogs. Trapped in a fluorescent-lit cubicle farm Luke thinks the free...

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Is Kombucha too ‘woke’?

Josh Evans leads a research group on Sustainable Food Innovation at the Danish Technical University’s Center for Biosustainability. His presentation on ‘novel ferments’ at the Stanford Fermented Food Conference detailed a project he led where astronauts on the International Space...

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Gen Z re-discovers alcohol?

A report in today’s Financial Times (Thursday, July 3) headlined “Gen Z raises a toast in test to industry nar­rat­ive” notes that a recent study chal­lenges the view that big alcohol brands’ decline is driven by abstin­ence among the young....

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Gen Z: Sober curious or just broke?

Brewers Association CEO Bart Watson is championing a report by Bourcard Nesin, Senior Beverage Analyst at Rabobank and host of the Liquid Assets podcast. Watson proclaims: The next time you see one of those “Gen Z is Killing the Alcohol...

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Commercial Kombucha vs. Homemade: Can Store-Bought Brands Pass the Fermentation Test?

Jo Webster and Caroline Gilmartin are fermentation experts from England. They are active on Instagram as @jo.webster-health and @every.good.thing. They recently posted the results of a fascinating experiment where they tested a range of commercial brands, as well as home-brew,...

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The Case for Cans

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...