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...
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...
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....
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...
This article is re-posted from the GO Kombucha blog, February 28, 2025. It follows on from another post by Gary on The Risks of Packaging Kombucha in Aluminium Cans (February 3, 2024). On February 4, 2024 we posted The Case...
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,...
An article in the May 20 edition of the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper headlined ‘How to tell if your kombucha has been stripped of its good bacteria and filled with sugar – and how to find the ones that really...
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...
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Our Fermented Future, Episode 5: The Spoilage Rights Movement
November 7, 2025
