I reviewed Kombucha (The Movie) last December when I interviewed Director Jake Myers and saw the screening at the Balboa Theater’s ‘Another Hole in the Head‘ horror-fest. My impression was that, despite presenting our favorite drink as a noxious beverage,...
There’s beverage industry news from the UK, where craft beer brewer BrewDog, the maker of “beer for punks”, is up for sale. The Financial Times report is a cautionary tale for anyone in the beverage industry with expansion plans. I...
World Ferment Day took place on February 1st this year. Billed as a global celebration that turns theory into practice, people were invited to taste a ferment, make a ferment, share a ferment or host a ferment event. Organizer Jo...
Australian-based Remedy Drinks has launched a major UK advertising campaign. Rolling out across 2,600 sites in seven major cities, the campaign features high-frequency bus and rail placements targeting commuters, vast digital screens and bespoke special builds for maximum impact, alongside...
Next Thursday and Friday, September 4-5, I’ll be at a Fermented Food Conference, at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California. I heard about the event from Jo Webster in the UK, who will be showcasing her...
A food scientist unscrews the lid on astonishing new research that suggests everybody should be eating three portions of fermented food a day. Yesterday’s London Sunday Times carried a long article by fermentation expert Tim Spector. In Tim Spector’s fermented...
Kudos to Duff McDonald for having his Audible audiobook Kombucha Curious: How A Drink Transformed my Life featured on the American Airlines playlist. I spent the last week in New York visiting my daughter, and caught a flight to London...
Three years ago, I visited the KC Kombucha taproom in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento. News broke last week that the taproom was closing. Courtney, the founder, had sold the business to her long-time partner Michelle Grubbs. A time...
On October 26, 2024, the Casino Theater in Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, hosted the 2nd edition of the World Kombucha Awards, an event led by Jordi Canet, Director of the WKA. The ceremony included distinguished guests such as Kendra Sepulveda,...
The London Financial Times published an editorial on August 24 reporting that “Abstemious Generation Z is helping to boost no- and low-alcohol drinks.” They note that, globally, sales of alcoholic drinks have fallen, and that no-alcohol beverages are where much...
