A couple of weeks ago, the San Francisco-based NPR radio station KQED broadcast an interview with Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan, the founders of Sir Kensington’s, a condiment company. The interview was actually an older episode of the How I...
Following my recent interview with Sally of Burning Bloom Kombucha in Puerto Vallarta, I met Gina Méndez the founder of Kova Kombucha, a small-batch kombucha business also based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Zapotlanejo, near Guadalajara. Kova is the most...
This podcast interview features James, the owner of Nania’s Vineyard, a Bristol-based company producing canned English wine and kombucha. James details his journey from home winemaking to establishing a thriving, albeit small-scale, kombucha business. He explains his unique brewing process,...
Following the recent post on Instagram, I have broken out results for the top three brands by number of Followers for regions, countries, and states. This was easy enough to track when tallying up the numbers. I don’t give results...
Bristol, UK-based Caroline Gilmartin has a PhD in microbial genetics and champions the importance of fermented foods and gut health. She runs fermentation workshops and explains the science behind fermentation. She has a Substack newsletter and Instagram and is a...
Lydia Davis launched Living Full Kombucha in 2021. She recently shared her story about the time when she started out on Instagram. It’s reprinted here with her express permission. Why don’t you come in the back and check out where...
Melbourne-based Guardian (UK) newspaper columnist Jess Ho, a person with “take-no-prisoners opinions on the hospitality industry” recently published a taste-test of seven Australian kombucha brands. These reviews are in stark contrast to those of kombucha connoisseur Susanna Danieli, a skilled...
This is a follow-up to the recent post about the study by the students and faculty the department of chemistry at Shippensburg University. The lead authors are Professors John Richardson and Jeb Kegerreis. They spoke with Booch News about the...
Juliana Casale, is the Founder of Toronto-based Balloon Sparkling Water. In a recent post on LinkedIn she asked: Her post generated 104 comments and 10 reposts. Most of this discussion is relevant to kombucha brands, particularly those in the United...
Tania Góngora (a food scientist) and Fernanda (‘Fer’) Iturbide (a sociologist and marketing expert) founded Simbiótica Fermentación in Mexico City in 2017. They divide responsibility between the fermentation science and marketing of their eight-year-old company, which now employs 18 people....
