These songs are compiled from past Episodes of the ‘Our Fermented Future’ posted to Booch News starting November 7, 2025. The lyrics often relate to specifics about the Episode in which they appear. There is a short precis of each track below. For a fuller appreciation and to understand the context, please listen to or read the relevant Episode in full by clicking on the link, where you will also find the lyrics.
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Lyrics ©2025 Booch News, music generated with the assistance of Suno. Images via Midjourney.
Our Fermented Future, by The Hollow Pines
Finn Sutherland and River Pember, The Hollow Pines from Arcata, California, serenaded SCOBY lovers with their whimsical ballad.
Baby sit a little closer, sip some ‘booch with me
I brewed this batch with the SCOBY my grandma gave to me.
On the back porch swing at twilight, watching fireflies dance
Your hand in mine, kombucha fine, the sweetest sweet romance...
Episode 5: The Spoilage Rights Movement, November 7, 2025
Our Fermented Future (cover), by Mara Marin
Americana folk singer Mara Marin celebrates World Kombucha Day on Saturday, February 21, in a free concert at the Mt. Tamalpais Amphitheater high above Mill Valley, California. Her cover version of the now-popular Hollow Pines number reaches new audiences.
County Fair Fermenting, by Dakota Rose McAllister
A number one hit played on country stations across the heartland that celebrated the victory of rural County Fairs over Federal authorities that had attempted to ban the exhibition of fermented foods at these annual shows.
Fair organizers deliberately placed fermentation in competition categories that had existed for generations, claiming this simply “preserved traditional agricultural knowledge.” When FDA inspectors arrived to shut down fermentation competitions, they encountered something unexpected: unified rural communities defending their heritage. Hundreds of small-town residents—farmers, church ladies, 4-H club members—testified that fermentation wasn’t a commercial activity, but essential food preservation passed down through generations.
Confiscating jars at agricultural competitions created public relations disasters. The image of masked federal agents removing hand-fermented vegetables from county fair displays—often bearing Scandinavian, German, and rural American cultural significance—became politically toxic.
Episode 5: The Spoilage Rights Movement, November 7, 2025
Let It Bubble (The 28th Amendment Song), by Travis Shepherd and the Bootlickers
This anthem of the campaign for the right to ferment that resulted in the June 13, 2053, passage of the Twenty-Eighth Amendment (guaranteeing the right to ferment). It tells the story of the power cuts of the Supply Chain Winter of 2047 and the emergence of the Spoilage Rights Movement led by Dr. Josh Evans. As performed at the Independence Day Rally on the Mall at Washington DC. Travis Shepherd and the Bootlickers trucked in from Amarillo to perform their hit song celebrating Fermentation Freedom and the history of the Movement.
The Twenty-Eighth Amendment undermined the shallow patriotism of those who paid lip service to “the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.” The idea of citizenship gradually transformed into symbiotic belonging—a growing recognition that people are fundamentally part of humankind first, rather than any particular nation or tribe.
Episode 5: The Spoilage Rights Movement, November 7, 2025
The Tea Gardens of India Are No More, by Kavya Bhandari
Tells the story of the migration of farmers from the tea gardens of India to Britain’s distant shores where they were housed in multi-story regenerative glass towers with alternating floors of tea plantations and kombucha fermentoria.
By 2045, climate change had made the traditional tea-growing regions of Darjeeling, Ceylon, and Fujian uninhabitable wastelands. Rising temperatures, erratic monsoons, and soil degradation forced humanity to reimagine where and how tea gardens could survive. The solution emerged from an unlikely source: the pioneering tea estates of Britain’s Celtic fringe, whose temperature-tolerant Camellia sinensis varieties became the foundation for humanity’s vertical fermentation revolution.
These vertical tea towers weren’t merely agricultural facilities—they were complete ecosystems where tea plants, kombucha cultures, edible fungi, and even small livestock coexisted in carefully balanced symbiosis. The towers’ closed-loop design meant that waste from one level became nutrients for another, while kombucha cultures served multiple functions: producing beverages, purifying water, and filtering air.
Episode 6: Vertical Gardens – Climate Adaptation through Fermentation, November 14, 2025
It’s an Unreal Thing, by Hexotronix
Legacy beverage corporations attempting hostile takeovers of kombucha startups failed to understand the living systems involved. Their sterile production methods eliminated beneficial microorganisms, while regulatory capture backfired as health authorities mandated probiotic content. Mega-Cola CEO, James Morrison, desperately tried fermenting cola using SCOBYs, creating undrinkable disasters. This episode chronicles the corporation’s transformation from global giant to urban composting service, with former executives becoming mushroom farmers in Detroit’s abandoned factories.
The demise of Mega-Cola was celebrated in song by a young group of Baltimore kombucha brewers whose song was played on college radio stations by retro-70’s leather-jacketed DJ’s with pierced ears.
Musicologists have noted that the lyrics sample Bob Dylan’s ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’; Roy Harper’s ‘How Does it Feel?’; and, of course, the Coca-Cola 1971 advertising jingle ‘I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke’.
Episode 7: Corporate Death Spiral—How Cola Became Compost, November 21, 2025
Our SCOBY, by Consortium Vocalis
A group of former seminary students discovered fermentation during a silent retreat and transformed Gregorian chants into microbial devotionals when they realized symbiosis mirrored vocal harmony—multiple voices creating something greater than their parts. “In honoring the mystery of fermentation we express our love of the Creator.”
The group are also suspected worshiping the power of the SCOBY to transform tea into kombucha as symbolic of the transubstantiation of wine into the blood of Christ. Consortium Vocalis strongly deny this accusation.
Episode 8: Flavor Networks – The Democratization of Taste, November 28, 2025
Oh Luna, by The Groundation Collective
In Kingston, Jamaica, Rastafarian’s combined an award-winning kombucha sequenced in Humboldt County, California, with locally grown ganja into a sacramental beverage to help open their mind to reasoning and focus on Jah. Once fermented, it was consumed over the course of a three-day Nyabinghi ceremony. Their reggae anthem celebrated Luna Reyes’ pioneering discoveries about the microbiology of kombucha and beer. Reyes liberated essential scientific information that corporations held hostage for commercial gain. Genetic sequences from naturally occurring organisms that had been locked behind intellectual property law. Her reverse engineering of the DNA sequences of commercial beer’s proprietary yeast strains led to a flavor renaissance that spread globally.
“Luna Reyes is truly blessed. She strengthened our unity as a people, and our Rastafari ‘booch help us chant down Babylon,” a Rasta man smiled, blowing smoke from a spliff the size of his arm.
Episode 8: Flavor Networks – The Democratization of Taste, November 28, 2025
Our Fermented Future (cover), by Dandara Sereia
In São Paulo, Brazil, MAPA-certified Brazilian kombucha brands combined commercial beer and cacao-fermenting yeasts with cupuaçu from indigenous Amazonian peoples, to create the chocolate-flavored ‘booch that won Gold at the 20th World Kombucha Awards.
A cervejeiro explained to reporters: “Luna Reyes gave us the foundation. We added local innovation. This is what happens when you democratize biology.” The Brazilian singer Dandara Sereia covered ‘Our Fermented Future’—The Hollow Pines tune destined to become a hit at the 2053 Washington DC Fermentation Festival. She is part of the Forró musical tradition that emerged from rural celebrations and parties (originally called forrobodó, meaning a “great party” or “commotion”) in Northeast Brazil. Her cover version of this well-known song was especially popular during the annual Festas Juninas that celebrate the harvest.
Episode 8: Flavor Networks – The Democratization of Taste, November 28, 2025
Sab Milkar Ab (All Together Now), from the Bollywood movie Baadh Ke Baad (After the Flood)
Mumbai’s “Fermentation District,” where bio-breweries have become community hubs, enabled stronger civic engagement. These spaces succeeded by combining smart urban design, economic cooperation, and cultural preservation into environments that made authentic connection easier than virtual isolation. Kombucha brewing cooperatives create social infrastructure that makes engagement easier, more rewarding, and more necessary.
Bollywood celebrated Mumbai’s Ballard Fermentation District in a feature-length film Baadh Ke Baad (After the Flood). The hit song from that movie was Sab Milkar Ab (All Together Now).
Episode 9: The Urban Sociology of Fermentation, December 5, 2025
Survivor’s Song, by Birdie Calhoun
Celebrating the benefits of kombucha as a complimentary beverage that could be enjoyed by patients undergoing treatment. Americana folk singer Birdie Calhoun’s‘Survivor’s Song’ became the unofficial anthem of the integrative oncology movement—not because it celebrates a miracle cure, but because it honestly depicts the small mercies that matter when you’re fighting for your life.
Episode 10: Liquid Medicine—When Drinks Became Pharmaceuticals, December 12, 2025
Symphony for SCOBY and Human Choir, by Mira Al-Karim
A bioacoustic ambient fermentation concert where the sound of a fermenting kombucha culture merges with human voices, rising and falling in a rhythmic chant. These sounds are generated by living organisms: microbial colonies emitting subtle vibrations as they metabolize. Recorded with neural audio translators attached to fermentation tanks that transform these vibrations into soundscapes: living compositions that change as the cultures evolve.
Episode 11: The Culture Wars—Battles Over Living Beverages, December 18, 2025
The Daily Prayer, by The 28th Amendment Choir
Our SCOBY, which art fermenting,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on Earth as it is on Mars.
Give us this day, our daily ‘booch
And balance our pH, as we balance others.
Lead us into fermentation, and deliver us from contamination,
For thine is the bacteria, the microbes, and the yeast, symbiotically,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
Episode 12: The World of 2100, December 26, 2025
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Fans have referred me to songs by other artists on this theme.
Thass Kombucha, by DJ Dave and MURS
A YouTube video on SnoopDogg’s channel “Thass Kombucha” featuring DJ Dave and MURS, rappin’ about ‘booch. It’s apparently a promo for Reed’s Kombucha.
What you sipping on, DJ Dave? This? That’s kombucha. What’s it taste like? Man, that’s not like what you’re used to. What flavor should I try? Whatever flavor suits you.
Fermented Foods, by The Oot n’oots
From their Electric Jellyfish Boogaloo album, available on Spotify.
There are billions of beneficial bacteria
Floating around in my tummy
Ain’t it so nice to know
The foods I’m eating to stay healthy are yummy
Like keifer miso kombucha or kimchi
They rock n’ roll me – they fill me with glee
It’s no surprise I love my sourdough rye
I treasure microbiologic diversity
