Just as we should not judge others on their appearances, SCOBYs deserve the courtesy as well. Our SCOBYs are not your glamorous magazine models, at all, not even close, but they make a banging kombucha, and we are grateful for that! Ahhh, the SCOBY…the humble workhorse and fascinatingly hideous magical secret ingredient of kombucha. Without […]
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Something Different: The Fun of Fermentation
Facebook Twitter Instagram Do you remember learning about and really understanding fermenting foods when you were a kid? We certainly don’t, and the sad reality of our waning state of food security means future generations need to understand the value of fermenting and preserving foods. In the infancy of our little brewery, (2017), then located […]
SCOBY’s the Limit!
Ahhh, the SCOBY…the humble workhorse and fascinatingly hideous (or beautiful, we are split here) magical secret ingredient of kombucha. Without a SCOBY involved in the process there could be no kombucha, but what exactly is it? “SCOBY” is an acronym for “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast” and, without getting too technical on you, is […]
On Farmers’ Markets, Community, and Never Astroturfing
Kombucha has always been a grassroots movement—homebrewers have passed SCOBYs on through friends and generations for hundreds of years. One of our brewers was given her first SCOBY 16 years ago in Vancouver, BC, and has not stopped brewing since. When you start selling kombucha, it’s not natural to deviate from the community focussed spirit […]